Chief Nursing Officer (Santa Rosa) in California

POSITION TITLE: Chief Nursing Officer

REPORTS TO: Chief Executive Officer

DESCRIPTION OF POSITION:

Organizes and administers areas of Nursing Services to attain the facility’s objectives established by the governing authority.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Organizes programs, policies and procedures that are developed to assess, evaluate and meet the needs of patients of inpatient psychiatric services, psychiatric outpatient clinics and transitional psychiatric programs.
• Plans, supervises and coordinate(s) care given by RN, LVN, LPT, and other mental health workers.
• Plans and assigns staffing rations based on patient needs, acuity, staff competency and regulatory requirements
• Implements standards of nursing practice in the behavioral healthcare setting, annually reviewing and revising as necessary to reflect changes in nursing...