Teams at Lake Charles Memorial Health System

Provides 24-hour leadership and accountability for a clinical nursing unit, developing policies, staffing, budgets, and ensuring staff licensure and mandatory training. Leads problem-solving, performance management, and communication with patients and staff. Requires psychiatric nursing experience and clinical competency, supports hospital mission and service excellence, and may work flexible hours.

Provides direct psychiatric patient care, monitors physical, emotional, and cognitive status, reports changes to clinical staff, uses crisis intervention techniques, and supports patient and environmental safety through inspections, searches, and visitor monitoring. Works with nurses and other departments to maintain safe, high-quality care. Requires communication skills, emotional resilience, adaptability, and the ability to perform physically demanding shift work.

Manage daily CDI operations, lead and mentor CDI specialists, perform concurrent and retrospective record reviews, collaborate with clinicians, coding, and quality teams to improve documentation accuracy, ensure compliance with CMS and coding guidelines, analyze CDI metrics (CMI, CC/MCC, query rates), support reimbursement integrity, and report performance to leadership.