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Clinical Director - Emergency Department - Full Time

Christus Health
United States, Louisiana, Lake Charles
524 Doctor Michael Debakey Drive (Show on map)
Nov 04, 2025
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
  • Apprising medical staff, department heads, and administrators in matters related to nursing service and strategies

Standard I: Financial Management


  • 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
  • Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations

Standard II. Human Resources Management


  • 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
  • Coaches others on operating personnel management systems and their processes

Standard III. Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors


  • 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
    • Capitalizes on differences to foster highly effective work groups

Standard VI. Performance Improvement/Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations


  • 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
  • Promotes and communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care

Standard V. Leadership


  • 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
  • Applies techniques of "action learning" to problem solve and personally reflect on decisions

Requirements:

Education


  • Graduate of a Registered Nursing program, Bachelors of Science in Nursing required
  • Master's degree in Nursing, Health Administration, Business Administration, Nursing, or related advanced degree in health related field preferred

Experience


  • Minimum of 3-5 years' of clinical patient care experience in a relevant setting
  • Minimum of 2 years' of healthcare leadership

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications


  • RN license in good standing in state of employment or a compact state , if applicable
  • Registered Nurse (RN) required
  • American Heart Association Basic Life Support

Work Schedule:

8AM - 5PM Monday-Friday

Work Type:

Full Time


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