Job duties/requirements of ADON?

[Zookeeper44, RN]

I am considering applying for an ADON position at a corrections facility but honestly I am not sure specifically what that entails. I meet their general criteria but it is vague. I have a strong background in psych/behavioral health and I currently work in a psych crisis stabilization hospital, so honestly, I am weak with med/surg skills other than 02, light wound care, PO and IM meds, diabetes mgmt. Would I be unprepared/underqualified as an ADON? Is this more of a clinical position, management, or a mix? (I know that NONE of the management where I currently work have very strong clinical skills).

Also any guesses what the schedule would look like...? I am thinking weekdays, holidays off type thing (unless there's a true dire emergency). I may be way off. Again that is how it is in my current psych facility.

Shame me if you will, but this is really what I am looking for at this point, and yet I love psych and would like to stay in the field if at all possible.

[Dave_In_Florida, ADN, LPN, RN]

In the facilities I've worked, it's a management position. The facility I'm in now has a DON and HSA (Health Service Administrator, basically, they oversee nursing, MH, dental, etc). The DON occasionally does IV starts or blood draws if the nurses don't have any luck, but other than that, basically, he and the HSA split the load, but the DON also manages the schedule. They also have to act as a liaison between medical and detention (which often has fires that need to be put out) as well as taking on difficult pt case mgmt type things, dealing with families, etc.

It seems like a pretty decent gig. but definitely more management than clinical.