Registered Nurse (RN) - Stepdown Care Unit PRN

LCMC Health; Covington (LA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exceptional healthcare services

Community care initiatives

Job summary

LCMC Health is seeking a skilled critical care nurse in Covington, Louisiana. The role demands strong critical thinking skills, compassion, and the ability to support patients during vulnerable times. Responsibilities include coordinating care, monitoring vital signs, and educating patients and families.

Qualified candidates must hold a Louisiana nursing license and pertinent certifications (BLS, ACLS, PALS). LCMC Health fosters an inclusive environment committed to exceptional patient care and community health innovations.

Qualifications

• Must possess a current nursing license to practice in Louisiana.
• Required to have current BLS, ACLS, and PALS certifications.
• Experience with critical care nursing is essential.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize and coordinate all care touchpoints for patients.
• Evaluate vital signs and monitor life support measures.
• Engage with patients and families about significant events.

Skills

Critical thinking

Empathy

Compassion

Patient monitoring

Nursing delegation

Education

Current nursing license in Louisiana

American Heart Association BLS certification

ACLS and PALS certifications

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 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.

Work Shift

Nights (United States of America)

Lakeview Hospital

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. Learn more about Lakeview Hospital and our nationally recognized standards of excellence for heart, stroke, orthopedic, and women’s care.

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.