Registered Nurse (RN) Full Time Nights W5 Med Surg

JOB DESCRIPTION

Your job is more than a job.

Additional Job Description

LCMC Health

We are a New Orleans-based, non-profit health system on a mission : to provide the best possible care for every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond, and to put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way.

And that means we do things a little differently around here.

Treating people like family is the LCMC Health way, and it always has been. Founded by Louisiana's first freestanding children's hospital, we have grown into a healthcare system that is built to serve the unique needs of our communities and families.

Today, we offer six hospital locations : Children's Hospital New Orleans, East Jefferson General Hospital, New Orleans East Hospital, Touro, University Medical Center New Orleans, and West Jefferson Medical Center.

We also offer a network of urgent care centers across the greater New Orleans area. With over 2, physicians specializing in everything from head to toe, our community can count on us to provide the right care, right where they need it.

Touro

Touro has been serving the New Orleans community since 2, and today we are the city’s only community-based, non-profit, faith-based hospital.

We offer comprehensive healthcare services at every stage of life, from delivering generations of New Orleans babies to providing advanced senior care including heart, cancer, orthopedic, and rehabilitation services.

Touro’s footprint extends throughout New Orleans and the surrounding areas with numerous clinics, home health services, and retirement community, Woldenberg Village.

New Orleans is a city that values tradition and history and prides itself on the strength and vibrancy of our local community.

No institution embodies this enduring New Orleans spirit more than Touro. Our patients and the community can count on our ongoing commitment to their health and well-being for generations to come.

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JOB DESCRIPTION :

Why a Great Place to Work :

You’remore than your job. Everyone is. Andthat’swhat makes you great at your job all the little extras you bring to work every day, the things that make youyou.

At LCMC Health we value those things about you, because we know that all those little extras add up to extraordinary. Andwe’vebuilt a culture that supports and celebrates the extraordinary.

You’llsee it when you come to work here, in the spirit of our places and the faces of our people. And every patient we heal, every family we comfort, every life we improve is the outcome of countless little extras adding up to an extraordinary result.

Join LCMC Health, andyou’llfind that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary

EssentialFunctions :

The RN Staff Nurse assesses, plans,implementsand evaluates patient care based on the standards of care and the policies of LCMC Health.

Delegates to professional and non-professional personnel involved in the delivery of care.

Facilitates andmaintainsa safe environment for patients and others with a specialty in wound care treatment and prevention :

Performs the priority technical procedures required by the area / department / assignment safely, effectively,efficientlyand legally.

Actively promotes and supports LCMC Health’s performance improvement initiatives by consistently implementing infection control practices,maintainingthe environment of care consistent with Joint Commissionrequirementsandparticipatingin quality improvement activities and review / audit processes.

Utilizes the nursing process to deliver patient care :

Organizes, prioritizes, and coordinates all aspects of care for each assigned patient by coordinating and delegating activities related to patient care management inan appropriate mannerand supervising activity of other unit personnelprovidingcare to assigned patients.

Communicates usingappropriate channelsinformation, data,significant eventsof problems toappropriate persons, including current patient condition, changes in the patient’s condition, laboratory / diagnostic data, intake & output, nutrition needs, assessment findings and changes, changes of shift report, patient / family / physician team member complaints, defective equipment, etc.

Keeps patients informed and gives periodic updates asappropriateand positively contributes to the organizational goal of patient throughput.

Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members toidentifyactions to improve patient care and education :

Seeks supervision, consultation, andassistancewhen unable to perform effectively or safely independently.

Delegates safely and appropriately to other team members toaccomplishdirect patient care or support activities.

Consistently performs proper hand-off to ensure continuity of care whileidentifyingand communicating problems.

Advises supervisor of current or anticipated problems and accepts and completes assignments in a timely fashion.

Uses age-appropriate principles of learning and initiates, consults, and collaborates with available patient education resources.

Works closely with physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and social workers to meet the educational needs of the patient / family.

Customer Service :

Continuously displays a positive attitude that contributes to patient satisfaction andutilizesthe service recovery process to address patients’concernor complaints.

Recognizes customer needs and begins to solve problems as soon as they areapparent.

Contributes to the team byproviding assistance toothers without being asked.

Professional Development :

Maintains current knowledge in nursing practice

Regularlyparticipatesin activities tomaintainand expand nursing knowledge in area of practice.

Readilyassistsothers and works in designated alternative areas when needed.

Job Qualifications : Education

Education

Required : Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program.

Preferred : BSN

Experience

Preferred : 1 year in a related clinical area

License / Certification

Required : Basic Life Support / CPR, Registered Nurse

Preferred : Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Theabovejobsummaryisintendedtodescribethegeneralnatureandleveloftheworkbeingperformedbypeopleassignedtothiswork. Thisisnotanexhaustivelistofalldutiesandresponsibilities.

LCMC Healthreservestherighttoamendandchangeresponsibilitiestomeetorganizationalneedsasnecessary.

WORK SHIFT :

Nights (United States of America)

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work.

This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.