RN PACU PRN Days

100 LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team as a Recovery Room Nurse, where your expertise in post-operative care will make a significant impact on patients' recovery journeys. In this vital role, you will monitor patients closely, ensuring their safety and comfort during the critical hours following surgery. Your compassionate approach and commitment to excellence will help create a healing environment that embodies the heart and soul of healthcare. This is an opportunity to be part of a community-focused organization that values authenticity and inclusivity, providing you with the chance to truly make a difference in the lives of others every day.

Benefits

Flexible Hours

Healthcare Benefits

Professional Development Opportunities

Supportive Work Environment

Team Building Activities

Qualifications

• Current nursing license and BLS certification are essential.
• 1 year of experience required for the flex RN position.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate post-operative patient care and monitor vital signs.
• Educate patients and families on home care after discharge.
• Perform clinical documentation and monitor for complications.

Skills

Patient Monitoring

Post-operative Care

CPR

Clinical Documentation

Patient Education

Education

Current nursing license in Louisiana

BLS certification

ACLS certification

PALS certification

BSN

Job description

It’s one of nursing’s best kept secrets. As a Recovery Room Nurse, you’re a vital part of the Post Anesthesia Critical Unit (PACU) following radiology, cath lab, special procedures or surgery. While patients are still under the effects of anesthesia, each patient’s recovery has its own pace, and so you monitor attentively until they are stable enough to go to their hospital room or discharged home. Breathing, pain, vital signs, surgical site, and oxygen levels are closely monitored, and you react at a moment's notice to unusual changes - never hesitating to enlist your team members for assistance if needed. These few hours spent with your patients are often short, yet critical and essential.

And at the end of your shift, tired is a given, but so is fulfillment. You understand that and bring your "one-of-a-kind" heart to our one-of-a-kind healthcare again the next day. That little extra something is what we love about you.

Your Everyday

1. Organize, prioritize, and coordinate post-operative patient care such as checking lines, tubes, or drains, managing pain, and body positioning.
2. Educate and prepare patients and their families on home care after discharge.
3. Perform required clinical documentation and post-operative assessments.
4. 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.
5. Monitor and intervene for postoperative complications.
6. Perform CPR or other emergency measures if required.
7. Collaborate with surgery team to identify and meet the overall needs of patient care or when unable to complete assignments or perform tasks promptly, effectively, or safely.
8. Maintain and advocate a safe environment for everyone.
9. Ensure continuity of care, efficient throughput, consistent communications, and an exceptional experience for every patient.
10. Initiate patient and family education on the operation and post-operation care as required.

The Must-Haves

Minimum:

1. Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana and as defined by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
2. Current American Heart Association BLS certification.
3. Current ACLS and PALS certifications.
4. Minimum Required: 1 year for a flex RN position.

Preferred:

1. BSN
2. 1 year in a related clinical area
3. Certified Critical Care Nurse or Certified Post Anesthesia Nurse

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 New Orleans East Hospital

New Orleans East Hospital, vital to LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, has been New Orleans East’s and the surrounding community’s trusted healthcare leader since 2014, embodying our mission of not only superior care, but healthcare with heart, courtesy, concern, kindness, and welcoming spirit for everyone. Learn more about New Orleans East Hospital 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.

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