Registered Nurse (RN) - ICU - Days

LCMC Health; Metairie (LA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health is seeking a dedicated critical care nurse in Metairie, Louisiana. This role involves taking the lead in patient care, monitoring vital signs, and ensuring a safe environment for patients and their families.

Qualifications include a current nursing license in Louisiana and BLS certification, while ACLS and PALS must be obtained within the first six months. Join a team that values compassion and individual care in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana.
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification.
• Current ACLS and PALS (Must obtain within 6 months of hire).

Responsibilities

• Prioritize, coordinate, and delegate all care touchpoints for patients.
• Evaluate vital signs and monitor life support measures.
• Apply knowledge of complex patient conditions and psycho/social needs.
• Ensure continuity of care and communicate effectively with families.
• Initiate patient and family education using appropriate resources.

Job description

Your job is more than a job. Critical care nursing is a deeper, more intimate call to care during one of the most vulnerable times in your patient’s life. You understand that. So, you reach beyond the patient’s bedside to the concerned family to update on conditions and recovery, consoling grief, and inspiring hope. This complex, around the clock role embraces your decisiveness, preparation, understanding, and high‑level critical thinking. It’s a rare intersection for a rare breed of nurse where your sense of humanity meets your sense of purpose. If that’s you, then you’re going to love it here.

Your Everyday

• Take the lead: prioritizing, coordinating, and delegating all care touchpoints for your patients.
• Evaluate vital signs according to standards of care and monitor life support measures such as advanced heart and respiratory technology.
• Apply knowledge of complex patient conditions including psycho/social needs.
• Maintain and advocate a safe environment for everyone.
• Monitor and engage with your patients, families, and appropriate care team members immediately 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.
• Collaborate and consult with nursing supervisor to identify and meet the overall needs of patient care or 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 assisting others without being asked.

The Must‑Haves

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana and as defined by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification.
• Current ACLS and PALS (Must obtain within 6 months of hire).

Work Shift

• Days (United States of America)

Benefits

• 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.

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.