RN - ICU Stepdown FT Days

100 LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health is seeking a dedicated critical care nurse to lead care coordination for patients, families, and the care team. You will assess vitals, manage life support, and address complex patient needs with empathy and professionalism.

Join a compassionate team focused on exceptional patient experiences, safety, and collaborative care. A Louisiana RN license, BLS, ACLS, and PALS are required to provide high‑quality care in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana as defined by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification.
• Current ACLS and PALS certifications.

Responsibilities

• Take the lead: prioritizing, coordinating, and delegating all care touchpoints for your patients.
• Evaluate vital signs and monitor life support measures.
• Apply knowledge of complex patient conditions including psycho/social needs.
• Maintain and advocate a safe environment for everyone.
• Initiate patient and family education using appropriate resources and continuum of care services.

Skills

Critical care nursing

Patient care

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Louisiana RN license

BLS Certification

ACLS and PALS

Tools

ECG monitoring

Ventilator management

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.

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: 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.

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.

About LCMC Health

One‑of‑a‑kind care comes from one‑of‑a‑kind people. At LCMC Health, our people are the magic ingredient that makes our care so extra‑extraordinary. We are compassionate, driven, and dedicated to bringing a little something extra to healthcare and to the people of New Orleans and beyond. If you’re the kind of person who believes that our community deserves the best and that healthcare needs a little more heart, we want you to be a part of our family. From medical roles to administrative positions, every person on our team plays a part in our mission: to provide health, care, and education beyond extraordinary. Let’s make every day extraordinary, together.