RN Clinical Director Med Surg Neurology Stroke

Your job is more than a job.

Why would you want to be a Clinical Nurse Director? Because you were born to lead. It comes naturally. In nursing, not everyone takes the same path. As an RN Clinical Director, patient care is still your top priority because building an excellent care team that delivers extraordinary every day starts with you.  

  

You serve as the champion for your colleagues, team, and patients, ensuring staff are fully engaged in their understanding and participation in the journey to care excellence. Yes, it requires some mental heavy lifting, but if not you, then who? If this is your calling, then you’re going to love it here. And we’re going to love you right back by giving you the support and tools you need to live your extraordinary.  

  

Your experiences, knowledge, skills, empathy, compassion, and personality, all of it adds up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you will bring to this nursing leadership role. 
 
Your Everyday 

Take the lead: managing the daily operations of your department or unit and initiating processes to assure the highest quality of patient care using a participative approach to achieving goals. 

Lead the charge for staying "survey ready" and work with staff, other managers, and administration developing implementing, and revising policies and procedures in compliance with federal and state guidelines, as well as accreditation standards (i.e., TJC, CMS, DHH). 

Promote a safe environment and implement solutions in response to infection control rounds. 

Maintain standards of team accountability for hospital policies and procedures and delivery of care services. 

Promote excellence in patient and customer relations by acting as a liaison and effectively interacting with physicians, staff, patients, and families. 

Participate in admissions decisions regarding patient acceptance and placement. 

Evaluate new and current staff competencies, ensure qualified staff and staffing levels, and screen, interview, and orient new hires to include detailed instruction regarding development of patient care plans, documentation of patient progress, and utilization of electronic documentation system and/or back up paper system. 

Develop nursing schedules and daily staffing and adjusts staff accordingly based on census; effectively manages adequate nursing staffing levels to ensure census may be maintained at budgeted levels. Finance: 

Assist with implementing a strategic plan to accurately forecast expenses in the preparation of annual operational (including personnel) and capital budgets. 

Monitor, evaluate, and control appropriate utilization of budgeted FTEs and operational expenses in assigned nursing areas. 

Identify strategies for growth and care development. 

 

The Must-Haves 
 
Minimum: 

Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana and as defined by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing. 

Current American Heart Association BLS certification. 

2 years of management or supervisory experience in healthcare. 

WORK SHIFT:

Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community. 

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’