RN Spinal Cord Rehab M9 PRN Nights

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 68,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in New Orleans, LA seeks an experienced rehab nurse to lead care delivery for patients throughout rehabilitation. You will coordinate and advocate for patients, collaborate with physicians, case managers, therapists, and families to ensure seamless care and timely communication.

The role emphasizes clinical excellence, patient advocacy, and teamwork within a program dedicated to compassionate, evidence-based recovery.

Qualifications

• Current nursing license to practice in Louisiana.
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification.
• BSN preferred.
• 1 year in a related clinical area preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead, prioritize, coordinate, and delegate care touchpoints for patients.
• Evaluate vital signs and monitor life support as needed.
• Apply knowledge to complex patient conditions including psycho/social needs.
• Maintain a safe environment and ensure patient safety.
• Engage with patients, families, and care team to address questions or concerns.
• Collaborate with nursing supervisor to meet patient care needs.
• Initiate patient and family education using appropriate resources.

Skills

Care coordination

Communication

Team collaboration

Critical thinking

Job description

Your job is more than a job.

No two days and no two patients are alike in the world of rehab nursing. You champion multiple patients as they begin their rehabilitation journey. With each different diagnosis, you encourage, comfort, and ready your patients for therapy, interacting with physicians, case managers, therapists and families as part of a team care approach. You celebrate the ordinary, because in the world of rehabilitation, picking up a toothbrush or walking 25 feet may be extraordinary milestones for your patient.

And while you focus on your patient’s “extraordinary”, we focus on you with the concrete resources that foster the “little something extras” to help you live your “extraordinary” too. If a light bulb just went off in your head, then you’re going to love it here and we’re going to love you right back.

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.

Preferred

• BSN
• 1 year in a related clinical area

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.

Simple things make the difference

• To expedite the hiring process, proof of citizenship or immigration status will be required to verify your lawful right to work in the United States.