RN: Elevate Patient Care & Team Collaboration

Lake Charles Memorial Health; Louisiana, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lake Charles Memorial Health seeks an experienced Registered Nurse (RN) to join the Patient Care Team in Louisiana. The RN will provide hands-on nursing care, make sound clinical decisions, and deliver comprehensive patient care using the nursing process.

Responsibilities include assessing and planning care, administering medications, educating patients and families, and documenting precisely in the patient record, while collaborating with an interdisciplinary team from admission to discharge.

Qualifications

• Graduate of School of Nursing.
• Current Louisiana Registered Nurse license or compact state license as RN.
• BLS-CPR Certified.
• Ability to read, write and speak intelligible English; communicate effectively with superiors and peers.
• Emotional stability and resilience; adaptable to change and decisive.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates competency in administering medication.
• Organizes patient care and unit activities with delegation as appropriate.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team from admit to discharge.
• Educates patients and families; documents appropriately.
• Uses nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care.
• Performs initial assessments and documents appropriately.

Skills

Nursing process

Medication admin

Patient education

Documentation

Team collaboration

Tech proficiency

Evidence-based practice

Unit PI program

Education

Graduate of School of Nursing

Louisiana RN license or compact state RN

BLS-CPR Certified

Tools

Smart Pumps

Electronic Health Records

Job description

Lake Charles Memorial Health seeks an experienced Registered Nurse (RN) to join the Patient Care Team in Louisiana. The RN will provide hands-on nursing care, make sound clinical decisions, and deliver comprehensive patient care using the nursing process.

Responsibilities include assessing and planning care, administering medications, educating patients and families, and documenting precisely in the patient record, while collaborating with an interdisciplinary team from admission to discharge.