Registered Nurse (RN) - Stepdown Care Unit

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in New Orleans is seeking a dedicated critical care nurse to lead and coordinate patient care during night shifts. You will assess vital signs, manage life support, and communicate with families to provide comfort, updates, and reconciliation of care while ensuring safety and high-quality outcomes.

You’ll collaborate with the nursing supervisor and care team to advocate for patients, manage transitions, and uphold rigorous standards.

Qualifications

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana.
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification.
• Current ACLS and PALs certifications.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize, coordinate, and delegate care touchpoints for patients.
• Evaluate vital signs and monitor life support measures.
• Collaborate with nursing supervisor and care team; educate patients and families.
• Ensure continuity of care and effective communication across the care team.

Skills

Critical care nursing

Patient assessment

Family communication

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 experiences, knowledge, skills, empathy, compassion, and personality, all of it adds up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you will bring to this critical nursing role.

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 Collaborates 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 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 ACLS and PALs.

WORK SHIFT

Nights (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.

Lakeview Hospital , the center of LCMC Health's extraordinary community of care on the Northshore, provides the only Level II trauma center in St. Tammany Parish. Along with our signature healthcare and wellness services, we continuously adopt the latest treatments, technologies, and medical innovations to better serve our patients.

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.

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.

Proof of citizenship or immigration status will be required to verify your lawful right to work in the United States.