Role and Responsibility of Director of Nursing

The Director of Nursing are nurse administrators who work at hospitals, nursing homes and

other healthcare facilities. They assume authority, responsibility, and accountability for the delivery

of nursing services in the facility. Their duties might include supervising the nursing staff and

overseeing patient care as well as administrative functions such as record keeping and budgeting.

The director of nursing is the one who is responsible for communicating between the nursing staff

and the physicians at a health care facility. It is the director of nursing who communicates to

physicians the needs of the patients. Also, the director of nursing has the duty of testifying in any

criminal or civil legal cases that arise out of the nursing care at the facility and can be held legally

liable in the event that his/her own negligence in practice was responsible for a mishap at a facility

resulting in death or personal injury to a patient.