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A director of nursing (DON) is a registered nurse who supervises the care of all the patients at a health care facility.〔Nursing home litigation: pretrial practice and trials By Ruben J. Krisztal, Stephen Appelbaum: Page 112〕 The director of nursing has special training beyond the training of a staff nurse for the position that pertains to health care management, and in some places, a director of nursing must hold a special license in order to be employed in that capacity. The director of nursing is one of up to seven directors at a typical health care facility. The other are the directors of food (or dietary) services, social work, activities, business management, housekeeping/laundry, and maintenance.〔Effective Management of Long Term Care Facilities By Douglas A. Singh: Page 61〕 In most facilities, the director of nursing is only second to the facility's administrator, and will fill in in the administrator's absence.〔Effective Management of Long Term Care Facilities By Douglas A. Singh: Page 283〕 In some facilities, there is also an assistant director of nursing (ADON) who backs up the director of nursing, especially in the DON's absence or off-hours. 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.〔Nursing home litigation: investigation and case preparation By Patricia W. Iyer: Page 163〕 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. ==Laws relating to the director of nursing== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Director of nursing (long-term care facility)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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