Director of Nursing

Overview

Freedom Behavioral of Ville Platte is a 12-bed inpatient senior adult unit and distinct part unit (DPU) of Mercy Regional Medical Center. We are currently accepting resumes for consideration for our DON/Nurse Manager position in Ville Platte, LA.

• Provide oversight and direction to all direct care nursing staff on the DPU NM role, ensuring staffing safety and compliance with protocols.
• Assist nursing staff with decision making, clinical judgment issues, and medical staff communication; provide direct patient care when indicated.
• Assume nursing administrator on-call duties when indicated.
• Participate in the QAPI process with monitoring, tracking, and analyzing nursing data.
• Develop the nursing schedule in a timely manner.
• Coordinate nursing care within the scope of practice and in compliance with policies, procedures, and standards.
• Collaborate with Human Resources on hiring and termination of nursing department employees.
• Complete performance evaluations for nursing staff as scheduled.
• Facilitate admissions with Intake and the Service Development Department to ensure timely admissions; maintain knowledge of admission criteria and document criteria for new admissions.
• Function as a member of the Utilization and Treatment Team to communicate patient goals, interventions, and assessments.
• Serve as a resource for administrative, nursing, and direct care staff in developing policies, procedures, forms, and processes affecting nursing and patient care.
• Ensure survey readiness through regulatory compliance and quality standards of care.
• Collaborate on facility projects and program development to oversee safe, accurate development and implementation of patient care.
• Participate as a member of the facility leadership team.

• Education:
  
  Registered Nurse for at least 5 years with a minimum of 3 years of clinical psychiatric/mental health nursing care experience; MSN oversight.
• License: RN License through the Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
• Experience:
  
  3 years in mental health nursing management.