LPN - Post Surgical

100 LCMC Health; United States; On-site; USD 42,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in the New Orleans area seeks an on-site Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to provide hands-on nursing care across cardiac, medical, surgical, and post-critical units. You’ll develop care plans, monitor patient status, and educate families with compassion in a fast-paced setting.

Active Louisiana LPN license and current BLS are required. You will collaborate with a diverse care team to ensure safe, patient-centered care and smooth care transitions.

Qualifications

• Plan of care development for assigned patients.
• Prioritize care activities based on acuity and resources.
• Identify and respond to risks to patient health.
• Delegate safely and appropriately to care team members.
• Collaborate with care team to improve patient care and seek supervision when needed.
• Maintain documentation per guidelines and ensure patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to care plan development and updates.
• Manage prioritization of patient care based on needs and resources.
• Respond to data indicating potential risk and initiate corrective actions.
• Educate patients and families and coordinate continuum of care services.

Skills

LPN

Patient care

Documentation

Care plans

Education

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) – Louisiana State Board of Practical Nurse Examiners

Current American Heart Association BLS certification

Job description

Your job is more than a job Your calling as an LPN Nurse demonstrates your humanity and confirms your unwavering passion, heart of gold, and of course, your hands‑on nursing style. You’re on the front line of care (cardiac, medical, surgical, and post critical care) and that means you get to know your patients more than just a diagnosis or a room number. You’re a healthcare warrior, and you gather every ounce of kindness, knowledge, and understanding at the patient’s bedside. Whether it’s a call light, a hand hold, a medical need, a family request and yes, even a proverbial ‘extra blanket” request, you bring your heart and soul to everything you do. You love using your range of nursing skills and a “never‑a‑dull‑moment” nursing environment. And that’s what we love about you. Your experiences, knowledge, skills, empathy, compassion, and your “little something extra” all add up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this hands‑on, diverse nursing role.

Your Everyday Perform priority technical skills/procedures required by the area/department/assignment safely, effectively, efficiently and legally.

• Contribute to the development of a plan of care for assigned patients.
• Establish and/or revise priority for patient care activities based on acuity of needs, resource availability, patient preference and other departmental needs.
• Manage and identify medical needs responding to data indicating potential risk to individual's health, initiates action to correct, reduce or prevent the risk.
• Make decisions based on scientific principles, successful experience, intuition and/or standards of practice and delegate safely and appropriately to all care team members.
• Collaborate with care team members on identifying actions to improve patient care and seeking supervision, consultation and assistance when unable to perform effectively or independently.
• Use all resources to resolve and prevent problems that cannot be managed independently.
• Maintain documentation consistent with established guidelines.
• Maintain and advocate for 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.
• Ensure continuity of care, efficient throughput, consistent communications, and an exceptional experience for every patient.
• Initiate and/or maintain interventions to ensure safe and effective care, including medication management.
• Educate patients and families using appropriate resources and continuum of care services.

• The Must-Haves Minimum: Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) – Louisiana State Board of Practical Nurse Examiners
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification.

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

About West Jefferson Medical Center West Jefferson Medical Center, a cornerstone of LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, is regionally recognized and nationally accredited. For over 60 years, we’ve been the hospital‑of‑choice on the west bank of Jefferson Parish for health, wellness, and family‑centered care. Learn more about West Jefferson Medical Center 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.

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About LCMC Health One‑of‑a‑kind care comes from one‑of‑a‑kind people. At LCMC Health, our people are the magic ingredient that makes our care so extra‑extraordinary. We are compassionate, driven, and dedicated to bringing a little something extra to healthcare and to the people of New Orleans and beyond. If you’re the kind of person who believes that our community deserves the best and that healthcare needs a little more heart, we want you to be a part of our family. From medical roles to administrative positions, every person on our team plays a part in our mission: to provide health, care, and education beyond extraordinary. Let’s make every day extraordinary, together.