Sobre este puesto de LPN - Emergency Department PRN en LCMC Health
Your job is more than a job.
Your calling as an LPN Nurse demonstrates your humanity and confirms your unwavering passion, heart of gold, and of course, your hands-on nursing style. You’re on the front line of care (cardiac, medical, surgical, and post critical care) and that means you get to know your patients as more than just a diagnosis or a room number.
You’re a healthcare warrior and you gather every ounce of kindness, knowledge, and understanding at the patient’s bedside. Whether it’s a call light, a hand hold, a medical need, a family request and yes, even a proverbial ‘extra blanket” request, you bring your heart and soul to everything you do. You love using your range of nursing skills and a “never-a-dull-moment” nursing environment. And that’s what we love about you.
Your experiences, knowledge, skills, empathy, compassion, and your “little something extra” all add up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this hands-on, diverse nursing role.
Your Everyday
Perform priority technical skills/procedures required by the area/department/assignment safely, effectively, efficiently and legally.
Contribute to the development of a plan of care for assigned patients.
Establish and/or revise priority for patient care activities based on acuity of needs, resource availability, patient preference and other departmental needs.
Manage and identify medical needs responding to data indicating potential risk to individual's health, initiates action to correct, reduce or prevent the risk.
Make decisions based on scientific principles, successful experience, intuition and/or standards of practice and delegate safely and appropriately to all care team members.
Collaborate with care team members identifying actions to improve patient care and seeking supervision, consultation and assistance when unable to perform effectively or independently.
Use all resources to resolve and prevent problems that cannot be managed independently.
Maintain documentation consistent with established guidelines.
Maintain and advocate a safe environment for everyone.
Monitor and engage with your patients, families, and appropriate care team members concerning significant events, patient condition changes, or patient questions and concerns.
Ensure continuity of care, efficient throughput, consistent communications, and an exceptional experience for every patient.
Initiate and/or maintain interventions to assure safe and effective care including medication management.
Educate patients and family using appropriate resources and continuum of care services.
The Must-Haves
Minimum:
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) --Louisiana State Board of Practical Nurse Examiners
Current American Heart Association BLS certification.
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.
Lakeview Hospital, the center of LCMC Health’s extraordinary community of care on the Northshore, provides the only Level II trauma center in St. Tammany Parish. Along with our signature healthcare and wellness services, we continuously adopt the latest treatments, technologies, and medical innovations to better serve our patients. Learn more about Lakeview Hospital and our nationally recognized standards of excellence for heart, stroke, orthopedic, and women’s care.
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.
1. To get started, take your time to fully and accurately complete the application for employment. Incomplete applications get bogged down and are often eliminated due to missing information.
2. To ensure quality care and service, we may use information on your application to verify your previous employment and background.
3. To keep our career applications up-to-date, applications are inactive after 6 months and, therefore, require a new application for employment to be completed.
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