Registered Nurse Regional Manager

The mission of the Louisiana Department of Health is to protect and promote health and to ensure access to medical preventive and rehabilitative services for all residents of the State of Louisiana.

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Lead and inspire public health nursing initiatives that make a lasting impact on communities across Region 1! This exciting leadership opportunity allows a highly skilled Registered Nurse to oversee and guide regional nursing operations across critical public health programs including Immunizations Tuberculosis Reproductive Health Genetics and Childrens Special Health Services. The position plays a vital role in providing clinical expertise program direction and consultation to public health private and contract agency staff while supervising regional nursing personnel and collaborating with healthcare leaders to improve community health outcomes. If you are a passionate nursing leader committed to advancing public health and driving meaningful change we encourage you to apply!

This position requires routine statewide duties including fieldwork inspections investigations or direct services that extend beyond the employees domicile parish. These statewide responsibilities are an inherent and ongoing part of the job and may require frequent travel.

The official job specifications for this role as defined by the State Civil Service can be found here.

Job Duties:

• Provides professional nursing consultation and directs the planning implementation and monitoring of nursing activities across OPH facilities to ensure effective and efficient public health nursing services.
• Supervises regional nursing personnel by conducting performance evaluations approving leave and travel recruiting and hiring staff coordinating training and addressing disciplinary and personnel matters.
• Collaborates with regional and state leadership to establish nursing service goals implement new program protocols develop staffing standards and assist with budget preparation and program planning.
• Oversees emergency preparedness and public health response activities including Special Needs Shelters bioterrorism preparedness emergency response coordination and 24/7 on-call support during emergencies.
• Conducts nursing assessments provides direct patient care administers immunizations and medications and supports parish health programs including Tuberculosis WIC Reproductive Health Immunizations and Sexually Transmitted Disease services.
• Ensures compliance with clinical and laboratory standards by maintaining adherence to CLIA OSHA CDC guidelines and departmental nursing protocols while monitoring quality improvement activities and reviewing health records and reports.
• Manages clinical operations of the Wetmore Tuberculosis Clinic by overseeing staff improving workflows and patient services coordinating care maintaining specimen handling procedures and supporting quality patient outcomes for one of the states largest tuberculosis treatment programs.

Position-Specific Details:

Location: Office of Public Health / Region 1-BRCO / Orleans Parish

Appointment Type:This position may be filled as aProbationary appointment

Cost Center:

Position Number(s):75986

How To Apply:

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy click on the Apply link above and complete an electronic application which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

* Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e. relevant detailed experience/education). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

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Contact Information:

Paul Tran

LA Department of Health (LDH)

Division of Human Resources

PO Box 4818

Baton Rouge LA 70821

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