The Hospital Administrator on Duty (AOD) serves as the senior administrative representative in the hospital during assigned shifts. This role is essential in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of hospital services, providing leadership and oversight, and managing situations that require executive decision-making. The AOD is responsible for coordinating staff activities, addressing patient and family concerns, and monitoring the quality of care and patient safety. 

Essential Functions  

• Supervise daily operations of the hospital during assigned shifts, ensuring adherence to policies and procedures.
• Monitor and manage the smooth flow of patient care, including admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Collaborate with department heads to prioritize patient care and ensure resources are effectively allocated.
• Provide leadership support for clinical and non-clinical staff. Addressing personnel issues, including staffing shortages and conflicts.
• Maintains the standard of nursing care and implements policies and procedures of the hospital and nursing department.
• Directs, supervises, provides and evaluates nursing care provided to patients.  
• Formulates a teaching plan based upon identified learning needs and evaluates effectiveness of learning; family is included in teaching as appropriate.
•  Performs treatments and provides services to level of licensure.
• Treats patients and their families with respect and dignity.  Identifies and addresses psychosocial, cultural, ethnic, and religious/spiritual needs of patients and their families.
• Functions as liaison between administration, patients, physicians, and other healthcare providers.
• Address patient and family inquiries, concerns, and complaints in a prompt and professional manner.
• Evaluates patient needs for interpretive services.
• Interacts professionally with patient/family and involves patient/family in the formation of the plan of care.
• Performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
• Initiates or assists with emergency measures for sudden adverse developments in patients? condition.
• Communicates appropriately and clearly to management, co-workers, and physicians.
• Identifies and addresses psychosocial needs of patients and family; communicates with Social Service/Case Management regarding both in hospital and post discharge needs.
• Participates in orientation, instruction/training of new personnel.
• Manages and operates equipment safely and correctly.
• Serves on hospital committees as assigned by the director/manager.
• Performs and records chart audits as assigned by the director/manager.
• Reports any crash cart discrepancies to pharmacy, director, and RL solution.
• Performs daily briefs, debriefs, huddles according to facility/policy standards.
• Participate in IDT discharge huddle and discharge phone call followup.
• Coordinates the presence of Staff nurses at the bedside for IDT rounds daily.
• Reports unexpected events by entering a RL solutions and adding scanned attachments of event related documentation.

Education:

Graduation from an accredited Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Associate Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma program.

Licenses/Certification:

Current state licensure as Registered Nurse.

BLS, ACLS, PALS and NRP certifications are required. De-escalation training required.

Experience:  

Minimum six months? Medical/Surgical experience in an acute care setting preferred. 

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