Registered Nurse 1-2-3

LDH-Office of Intellectual & Developmental Disability Supports; Kingsville (LA); On-site; USD 62,000 - 93,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinecrest Supports & Services Center seeks a dedicated Registered Nurse to join our team. This role coordinates nursing services, ensures high-quality care, and collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to meet person-centered health objectives.

Qualified candidates hold a Louisiana RN license (or NLC/eNLC) and may have options for different appointment types. Compensation includes shift differentials and special entrance rates.

Qualifications

• Current Louisiana RN license or multi-state license via NLC/eNLC.
• Ability to coordinate nursing care and supervise staff.
• Strong communication and teamwork to work with IDT.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate nursing care and lead nursing staff.
• Refer patients to community agencies and physicians as needed.
• Assign staff based on patient acuity and monitor care.
• Administer medications and monitor for adverse reactions.
• Communicate health concerns and treatments to the IDT and transitions teams.

Skills

RN License

Education

Nursing degree

Job description

PSSC 26-160-RJ

The mission of Pinecrest Supports and Services Center is to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to reach treatment goals and to return to more integrated community living settings. Pinecrest Supports and Services Center specializes in the treatment of people with comorbid intellectual and developmental disabilities and complex medical, behavioral, and psychiatric support needs.

Pinecrest Supports & Services Center (PSSC) is seeking a dedicated Registered Nurse to join our dynamic team. This role is essential in ensuring high-quality care and coordination of nursing services across our programs.

If you're a compassionate, organized, and team-oriented nursing professional ready to make a meaningful impact in a supportive environment, we encourage you to apply!

Possession of a current Louisiana Registered Nurse license or a temporary permit or multi-state license issued by a Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC/eNLC) state to practice as a registered nurse.

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

Job Duties:

• Provides for the coordination of nursing care. Performs all nursing duties required of a professional nurse, ensuring people have the best possible health. Leads assigned staff in accomplishing required patient care and staff activities.
• Refers people to other appropriate community agencies and physicians as necessary.
• Determines proper assignment of staff based on patient acuity of illness. Provides skilled assessment, reassessment, and monitoring for people served.
• Provides nursing treatments as ordered by the physician.
• Administers medications, assesses for signs and symptoms of adverse reaction, and assesses the efficacy of medication administered. Interprets complex data related to physical assessments, skilled observation and diagnostics and implements interventions based on these interpretations.
• Evaluates nursing care delivered by other members of the nursing team in assigned area on a shift and provides on-site directions.
• Assists in developing, reviewing, revising, and implementing nursing plans of care. Ensures that nursing plans of care are carried out by appropriate staff.
• Communicate on-going health concerns, result of health treatment, consultations and diagnostics to the person’s interdisciplinary team. Works with the interdisciplinary team (IDT) to establish, review and revise person centered health objectives.
• Communicates with consultants to ensure continuity of care. Provides communication to transitions teams to ensure continuity of care across the continuum of health care.

Position-Specific Details:

Department: LDH Pinecrest – Nursing Dept.

Appointment Type: This position may be filled by Detail to Special Duty, Probation, Job Appointment, Promotion, Demotion, or Lateral Transfer. Preference may be given to permanent classified employees of Pinecrest Supports and Services Center.

Career Progression: This positionmay be filled as a Registered Nurse 1, 2 or 3, depending on the level of education and experience of the selected applicant. NOTE: Failure to fully complete the education and work history sections of the application can result in an applicant being hiring at the lower level of the position in which any are applying.

Work Schedule: Day Shift:5:30AM – 6PM Night Shift:5:30PM – 6AM Part Time Shift are available

Compensation: Depends on Qualifications. This position receives premium pay of $ 10.00 per hour, and Shift Differential, Longevity Pay, and may receive additional pay options. This position has a Special Entrance Rate:

Registered Nurse 1 $29.84hr. – $39.01hr.

Registered Nurse 2 $31.93hr. – $41.74hr.

Registered Nurse 3 $34.17hr. – $44.67hr.

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

Pinecrest Supports and Services Center is a State As a Model Employer (SAME) agency that supports the recruitment, hiring and retention of individuals with disabilities. For more information on employment resources for individuals with disabilities, see the Louisiana Employment Resources Guide at http://www.laworks.net/Downloads/LRS/EmploymentResourceGuide_2018.pdf (Download PDF reader)

Pinecrest Supports and Services Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer

There is no guarantee that everyone who applies to this posting will be interviewed.

Contact Information:

For further information about this vacancy contact:

Robert L. Jones

Pinecrest Supports & Services Center

P.O.Box 5191

Pineville, LA. 71360

[e-mail]

Louisiana is a State As a Model Employer (SAME) that supports the recruitment, hiring and retention of individuals with disabilities.