NIGHT SHIFT LPN

Intensive Specialty Hospital; Shreveport (LA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

PTO

Medical, Dental, and Vision

HSA and FSA

Long-Term and Short-Term Disability

Critical Illness

Life Insurance

Sign-on bonus

Night and weekend shift differential

Overtime pay

Tuition reimbursement

Staffing ratios

Flexible scheduling

Clean environment

Team appreciation events

Family-oriented team culture

Job summary

Intensive Specialty Hospital in Louisiana is hiring a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) for our Long-Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospital in Shreveport/Bossier City. This full-time position offers a $7,500 sign-on bonus for 12-hour shifts, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities to grow toward RN via tuition reimbursement.

As part of a dedicated team, you will provide patient care across the full spectrum of LTAC services, participate in care planning, and maintain meticulous documentation in a

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of practical/vocational nursing
• Must hold a current state or compact state license and must maintain license renewal in accordance with the standards of the State Board of Nursing
• Mental health experience preferred
• Excellent organizational skills
• Good time management skills and self-directed
• Demonstrates good judgment, good interpersonal, and delegation skills

Responsibilities

• Utilize nursing knowledge and skills in the safe delivery of patient care through data gathering, planning, and evaluation.
• Provides care based on physical, psycho/social, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the ages of patients served.
• Maintain and coordinate communication effectively and professionally with all patients/significant others, staff, and physicians to ensure a quality patient experience.
• Maintain patient files, records, and other information in a professional manner following policies and procedures regarding documentation.
• Adapts to rapid change in a positive manner throughout the day as needs of the unit/department change.

Skills

Excellent organizational skills

Good time management

Self-directed

Good judgment

Interpersonal skills

Delegation skills

Education

Graduate of an accredited school of practical/vocational nursing

Job description

**$7500 SIGN ON BONUS**

Life is all about choices…Why choose to work at Intensive Specialty Hospital as aLicensed practical nurse (LPN)?

Benefits

• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Flexible Benefit Plan (HSA and FSA)
• Long-Term and Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Critical Illness
• Life Insurance
• $7500 sign-on bonus for FT employees working 12 hours shifts
• Night and weekend shift differential, overtime pay
• Tuition reimbursement – get paid to become a RN
• Comfortable staffing ratios
• Flexible scheduling to meet your needs – 12 hour shifts!
• A clean environment and supplies to do your job with excellence
• Employee appreciation events
• A team environment where we treat each other like FAMILY, with respect, dignity andcompassion

Intensive Specialty Hospital is a Long-Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospital. We provide cardiopulmonary care, ventilator and respiratory care, complex wound care, rehabilitation therapies, addiction medicine program, geriatric psychiatry program, multidisciplinary pain program, and outpatient counseling program. With two locations, Shreveport Campus and Bossier City Campus, we are the largest provider of LTAC services in Northwest Louisiana.

Working at an LTAC facility like Intensive Specialty Hospital is aGREAT OPPORTUNITYas aLicensed practical nurse (LPN) to encounter a variety of patients and develop exceptional skills to be a part of our committed TEAM.

The Licensed practical nurse (LPN)/LVN functions as a health care team member. The Licensed practical nurse (LPN)/LVN contributes to the assessment of the health status of individuals and groups, participates in the development and modification of the plans of care, implements care strategies within the Licensed practical nurse (LPN)/LVN scope of practice, renders safe care, participates in the evaluation of responses to care interventions, delegates activities within the Licensed practical nurse (LPN)/LVN scope of practice, and performs additional functions for which the Licensed practical nurse (LPN)/LVN has been trained within the professional scope of practice.

Responsibilities

• Utilize nursing knowledge and skills in the safe delivery of patient care through data gathering, planning, and evaluation.
• Provides care based on physical, psycho/social, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the ages of patients served.
• Maintain and coordinate communication effectively and professionally with all patients/significant others, staff, and physicians to ensure a quality patient experience.
• Maintain patient files, records, and other information in a professional manner following policies and procedures regarding documentation.
• Adapts to rapid change in a positive manner throughout the day as needs of the unit/department change.

Requirements/Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of practical/vocational nursing
• Must hold a current state or compact state license and must maintain license renewal in accordance with the standards of the State Board of Nursing
• Mental health experience preferred
• Excellent organizational skills
• Good time management skills and self-directed
• Demonstrates good judgment, good interpersonal, and delegation skills

Location

Bossier City and Shreveport, LA

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