Home Health RN - FT

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus up to $15,000

Job summary

LCMC Health is seeking an experienced Home Health Nurse to provide patient-centered care in the Louisiana New Orleans area. You will be welcomed into patients' homes, delivering personalized nursing that supports lifestyles and medical needs.

Responsibilities include leading care coordination, collaborating with the multidisciplinary team, maintaining a safe environment, and educating patients and families. A Louisiana nursing license, BLS, and PALs are required, with BSN or LPN welcomed.

Qualifications

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana.
• American Heart Association BLS certification.
• PALs certification.
• BSN or LPN welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Take the lead: prioritizing, coordinating, and delegating all care touchpoints for your patients.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members to ensure appropriate direct patient care.
• Maintain and advocate a safe environment for everyone.
• Monitor and engage with patients, families, and care team regarding events or questions.
• Prevent and treat wounds.
• Monitor infection control and environment of care requirements.
• Ensure continuity of care and exceptional patient experience.
• Consult with supervisor when unable to complete tasks promptly or safely.
• Initiate patient and family education using appropriate resources.
• Contribute to the team by assisting others without being asked.

Skills

Nursing

Home health care

Patient assessment

Wound care

Critical thinking

Communication

Education

BSN or LPN welcomed

Job description

Your job is more than a job.

UP TO $15,000 Sign On Bonus

It’s not every day that nursing gives you the opportunity to get a real snapshot of your patient’s life. Home health nursing is one of those rare exceptions. Welcomed into your patient’s home, you have that one-to-one time to devote to them and help them adjust their lifestyles to their medical needs. It’s personalized nursing at its best. Home health takes a certain kind of nurse: excellent clinical skills, excellent critical thinking and excellent decision-making abilities. Organization. Flexibility. Humility.

Treating patients from diverse backgrounds with varying illnesses while providing the little extras like conversation, companionship, and compassion, well, you consider that a gift that you don’t take lightly. You’re all about adaptability, responsibility and respect. That’s what we love about you.

Your experiences, knowledge, skills, empathy, compassion, and your "little something extra" all add up to you. We love that about you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this versatile, personalized nursing role.

Your Everyday

• Take the lead: prioritizing, coordinating, and delegating all care touchpoints for your patients.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members to ensure appropriate direct patient care.
• Maintain and advocate a safe environment for everyone.
• Monitor and engage with your patients, families, and appropriate care team members concerning significant events, patient condition changes, or patient questions and concerns.
• Prevent and treat wounds.
• Monitor and execute Joint Commission infection control and environment of care requirements.
• Ensure continuity of care, efficient throughput, consistent communications, and an exceptional experience for every patient.
• Advise and consult with supervisor when unable to complete assignments or perform tasks promptly, effectively, or safely.
• Initiate patient and family education using appropriate resources and continuum of care services.
• Contribute to the team by assistingothers without being asked.

The Must-Haves

Minimum

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana and as defined by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification.
• Current PALs certification.
• BSN or LPN welcome.

Work Shift

Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little "come on in" attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

Touro

Touro, at the forefront of medical excellence within LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, has been regionally recognized for 165 years as one of New Orleans' most enduring healthcare monuments. It’s where babies come from and New Orleanians are cared for. Learn more about Touro and our Leapfrog "Grade A" Hospital Safety distinction

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems - it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants 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.

The above job summary 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.