Clinical Director - General Surgery - Full Time - Relocation Required
4 days ago
Lafayette
This job requires relocation. Description Summary: Manages the nursing services and staff for a department; ensures quality and full compliance with relevant policies and standards. Responsibilities: • Implementing and monitoring programs and practices for the delivery of safe and efficient quality nursing care for patients and their families, • Ensuring consistent application of nursing services policies and standards throughout the organization, • Monitoring patient outcomes and the quality and effectiveness of nursing care, • Overseeing performance of teams; identifying and addressing staff training and development needs, • Recognizes the impact of reimbursement on revenue, • Understands the relationship between values-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement, • Creates, monitors, and analyzes a budget, explaining variance, • Conducts ongoing evaluation of productivity, forecasting future revenue and expenses, • Evaluates and specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives, • Initiates requests for required resources based on staff competency with patient acuity, • Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably within the scope of labor laws, • Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison, • Discovers opportunities to improve resource utilization, • Implements changes in role consistent with the scope of practice, • Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow, • Resolves conflicts in a wide variety of situations, such as workload allocation, schedule overlap etc., • Adjusts management and personal style to fit the needs of different people and different situations, • Explores motivational factors and tailors motivational efforts to individual needs and situations for the department, • Conducts evaluations on personnel performance at the workplace and recommends improvement plans, • Situation Management, • Identifies issues that require immediate attention, • Applies principles of crisis management to handle situations as necessary, • Manages conflict, • Promotes team dynamics, • Mentors and coaches staff, • Promotes Professional Management, • Promotes and encourages stress management, • Encourages participation in professional action, • Applies principles of self-awareness, • Fosters a healthy work environment, • Diversity, • Understands the components of cultural competence as they apply to the workforce, • Maintains an environment of fairness and processes to support it, • Assesses customer and patient satisfaction while developing and implementing strategies to address satisfaction issues, • Provides direct service to internal or external customers, • Facilitates the resolution of customer problems, issues, or concerns, • Monitors and promotes workplace safety requirements resulting in positive patient outcomes, • Applies systems thinking knowledge as an approach to analysis and decision-making, • Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities, • Provides evidence-based nursing care, • Serves as a leader of patient care, • Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc., • Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, influence, determination, integrity, confidence, • Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events, • Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate and attain desired behaviors; increases productivity, • Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transformational, and associated techniques Education • Graduate of a Registered Nursing program, Bachelors of Science in Nursing required, • Minimum of 3-5 years’ of clinical patient care experience in a relevant setting, • RN license in good standing in state of employment or a compact state, if applicable, • Registered Nurse (RN) required 5 Days - 8 Hours Work Type: Full Time