RN Staff Nurse- Emergency Department

Job Title

Your job is more than a job. At LCMC Health we value those things about you, because we know that all those little extras add up to extraordinary. And we've built a culture that supports and celebrates the extraordinary. You'll see it when you come to work here, in the spirit of our places and the faces of our people. And every patient we heal, every family we comfort, every life we improve is the outcome of countless little extras adding up to an extraordinary result. Join LCMC Health, and you'll find that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary.

Essential Functions:

• The RN Staff Nurse assesses, plans, implements and evaluates patient care based on the standards of care and the policies of LCMC Health. Delegates to professional and non-professional personnel involved in the delivery of care.
• Facilitates and maintains a safe environment for patients and others with a specialty in wound care treatment and prevention:
• Performs the priority technical procedures required by the area/department/assignment safely, effectively, efficiently and legally.
• Actively promotes and supports LCMC Health's performance improvement initiatives by consistently implementing infection control practices, maintaining the environment of care consistent with Joint Commission requirements and participating in quality improvement activities and review/audit processes.
• Utilizes the nursing process to deliver patient care:
• Organizes, prioritizes, and coordinates all aspects of care for each assigned patient by coordinating and delegating activities related to patient care management in an appropriate manner and supervising activity of other unit personnel providing care to assigned patients.
• Communicates using appropriate channels information, data, significant events of problems to appropriate persons, including current patient condition, changes in the patient's condition, laboratory/diagnostic data, intake & output, nutrition needs, assessment findings and changes, changes of shift report, patient/family/physician team member complaints, defective equipment, etc.
• Keeps patients informed and gives periodic updates as appropriate and positively contributes to the organizational goal of patient throughput.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to identify actions to improve patient care and education:
• Seeks supervision, consultation, and assistance when unable to perform effectively or safely independently.
• Delegates safely and appropriately to other team members to accomplish direct patient care or support activities.
• Consistently performs proper hand-off to ensure continuity of care while identifying and communicating problems.
• Advises supervisor of current or anticipated problems and accepts and completes assignments in a timely fashion.
• Uses age-appropriate principles of learning and initiates, consults, and collaborates with available patient education resources.
• Works closely with physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and social workers to meet the educational needs of the patient/family.

Customer Service:

• Continuously displays a positive attitude that contributes to patient satisfaction and utilizes the service recovery process to address patients' concern or complaints.
• Recognizes customer needs and begins to solve problems as soon as they are apparent.

Professional Development:

• Maintains current knowledge in nursing practice.
• Regularly participates in activities to maintain and expand nursing knowledge in area of practice.

Readily assists others and works in designated alternative areas when needed.

Job Specifications:

• Education: Minimum Required: Graduate of an accredited professional school of nursing. Enrollment in a BSN program with in the first year of hire and completion within 3 years. Preferred: BSN
• Experience: Minimum Required: Sufficient previous clinical experience in area of expertise.
• License/Certification: Minimum Required: Current Louisiana Nursing License, Basic Life Support (BLS) through the America Heart Association. Meets specific departmental criteria and/or certifications.
• Special Skills/Training: Minimum Required: (Administrative, Machines) Basic nursing skills. Proficient communication and interpersonal skills. Time management and organizational skills. Astute observational and assessment skills. Utilization of proper body mechanics. Proper operation of infusion pumps, Dinamaps, and fax machines. Knowledge and utilization of hospital computer system. Preferred:

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.

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• 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.
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• 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.