RN NICU FT Nights

100 LCMC Health; United States; On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

100 LCMC Health in the New Orleans area seeks a Pediatric Critical Care nurse to lead care for vulnerable children, coordinating all touchpoints and assessing vital signs while managing life-support equipment in a high-stakes environment.

You will collaborate with the nursing supervisor, educate families, and ensure safe, continuous care, adhering to Joint Commission standards and hospital protocols. This role requires a Louisiana nursing license and essential certifications.

Qualifications

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana.
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification.
• Current ACLS (CHNOLA CICU).
• Current PALs.
• Current CPI (level 1) (CHNOLA PICU).
• Current NRPI (NICU).

Responsibilities

• Take the lead: prioritizing, coordinating, and delegating care touchpoints for your patients.
• Evaluate vital signs and monitor life support equipment in a critical care setting.
• Apply knowledge of complex pediatric conditions including psychosocial needs.
• Maintain a safe environment and engage with families and care teams.
• Educate patients and families using appropriate resources and continuum of care services.
• Collaborate with nursing supervisor to meet patient care needs.

Skills

Critical Care

Nursing

BLS

ACLS

PALS

CPI

NRPI

Education

RN license Louisiana

Job description

Your job is more than a job. Pediatric Critical Care nursing is a deeper, more intimate calling. You care for children when they are at their most vulnerable. It requires holistic care, reaching beyond your patient’s bedside and illness to concerned parents and caregivers waiting for any and all news on their little one’s condition or recovery. You comfort fears and create hope. This complex, specialized nursing role embraces your decisiveness, preparation, understanding, and high-level critical thinking. Because you understand the unique physiological and psychological needs of your young patients, you’ve mastered not only the science of healing but the art of compassion. If this sounds like 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.

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.
• Current PALs.
• Current ACLS (CHNOLA CICU).
• Current CPI (level 1) (CHNOLA PICU).
• Current NRPI (NICU).

WORK SHIFT: Nights (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 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.

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