RN Float Pool Limited Assignment (Med-Surg) Days

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in New Orleans, LA is seeking a full-time Float Pool Nurse to support diverse care settings across the hospital. You’ll assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care, moving between units as needs arise, while maintaining high standards and patient satisfaction.

The role offers day shifts, a collaborative team environment, and opportunities to grow within a compassionate community that prioritizes safety, quality, and patient-first care across all units.

Qualifications

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana.
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification.
• 1 year of professional nursing experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and delegate care touchpoints for patients.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to ensure direct patient care.
• Maintain a safe environment and ensure patient safety and infection control.
• Monitor patients and communicate significant events to the care team.
• Conduct proper hand-offs and ensure continuity of care and timely throughput.
• Engage with patients and families with education and resources.

Skills

Nursing

Patient care

BLS certification

Job description

Your job is more than a job.

If you’ve got a great heart and passion for nursing, you belong here. As a full-time nurse with our in‑house staffing float pool, you’re always ready, willing, and able to go where the greatest patient care is needed. Did we say how impressed with are with you yet?

Comfortable in a variety of care settings, you get right to heart of each day, assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating your patient care based on the standards of care and the policies of LCMC Health. Each day is different, and your self‑starter mindset quickly earns you the trust of your care team members.

As you exhibit flexibility and nursing knowledge, your role as a float pool nurse allows you to live your extraordinary and become part of a community of caregivers that appreciates your can‑do attitude. Does this sound like you? Then, you’re going to love it here.

Your experiences, knowledge, skills, empathy, compassion, and your “little something extra” all add up to you. We love that about you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this hands‑on, never routine, nursing role.

Your Everyday

Prioritize, coordinate, and delegate all care touchpoints for your patients performing priority technical procedures as assigned.

Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members to ensure appropriate direct patient care.

Maintain and advocate a safe environment for everyone.

Monitor and engage with your patients, families, and appropriate care team members concerning significant events, patient condition changes, or patient questions and concerns.

Maintain a safe environment for everyone and demonstrate compliance with all state and federal regulatory and accrediting agencies (i.e. patient safety, infection control, HIPAA, etc.) and adhere to LCMC Health’s policies and procedures.

Monitor and execute Joint Commission infection control and environment of care requirements.

Prevent and treat wounds.

Perform proper hand‑off while identifying and communicating problems to ensure continuity of care, efficient throughput, consistent communications, and an exceptional experience for every patient.

Communicate information, data, significant events to appropriate care team members or supervisors, including current or changes in patient condition/status, laboratory/diagnostic data, intake and output, nutrition needs, patient needs, assessment findings, changes of shift reporting, unit problems, patient/family/physician team member complaints, defective equipment and supply usage.

Keep patients informed and initiate patient and family education using appropriate resources and continuum of care services.

Contribute to the team by assisting others without being asked.

Seek supervision, consultation, and assistance when unable to perform tasks effectively, safely, or independently.

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.

1 year of professional nursing experience

Work Shift

Days (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

Touro

Touro at the forefront of medical excellence within LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, has been regionally recognized for 165 years as one of New Orleans' most enduring healthcare monuments. It’s where babies come from and New Orleanians are cared for. Learn more about Touro and our Leapfrog “Grade A” Hospital Safety distinction

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.