RN Limited Benefits OR Days

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in New Orleans, Louisiana, seeks a surgical nurse to join the operating room team. The role focuses on patient preparation, intraoperative support, and post-operative care, requiring coordination with surgeons, anesthesiologists, and anesthesia staff.

Minimum qualifications include an active Louisiana nursing license and American Heart Association BLS certification; operating room experience is preferred. Typical hours are variable, onsite in Louisiana.

Qualifications

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana.
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification.
• Operating room experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare patient for surgery and review medical history.
• Provide patient care and support including supplies, medications, positioning, vitals monitoring.
• Perform clinical documentation and post-operative assessments.
• Monitor patients post-surgery for pain, complications, or infection.
• Collaborate with surgical team to ensure safe and efficient care.

Skills

BLS Certification

Operating room experience

Education

RN licensure (Louisiana)

Job description

Your job is more than a job.

When you got your first “Operation” game as a kid, you knew that being a part of a surgical team was somewhere in your future. Fastforwarda few years and some nursing education, you understand that your obligation to your patient’s care before, during and after surgery is important to your surgical nursing role andit’sso much more fulfilling than a game. No doubt your expert technical skills are paramount, but you also understand that teamwork and communication are key tools in the operating environment. As the bridge between the patient, doctor, and surgical care touchpoints, you embrace your role as the information gatekeeper collaborating with the surgeon and anesthesiologist.

We thinkyou’rekind of cooland would like to welcome you tothe real dealoperating room as a surgical nurse where intricacy, responsibility, and everyday extraordinary happens.You’regoing to love it here. And we know thatthere’sno one like you.

Your experiences, your knowledge, your skills, your empathy, your compassion, your 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

Prepare your patient for surgery, review patient history, and provide patient care and support including supplies needed, medicine administration, patient positioning, vitalsignsmonitoring, and health assessments.

Perform required clinical documentation and post-operative assessments.

Monitor your patient after surgery for pain and/or complications and the surgery site for healing or infection following Joint Commission infection control and environment of care requirements.

Performs CPR or other emergency measures if required.

Collaborate toidentifyand meet the overall needs of patient care or when unable to complete assignments or perform tasks promptly, effectively, or safely.

Maintain andadvocatea safe environment for everyone.

Ensure continuity of care, efficient throughput, consistent communications, and an exceptional experience for every patient.

Initiate patient and family education on the operation and post-operationcare asrequired.

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.

Preferred

Operating room experience

WORK SHIFT:

Variable Hours (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

About University Medical Center

University Medical Center, a world class academic medical center in LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, is the largest medical training center for healthcare professionals in Louisiana and has long served as the region’s safety net hospital for poor and underserved communities for 300+. Learn more about University Medical Center’s legacy and our vision of becoming the epicenter of medical care, education, and research.

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.