LPN Float Pool

About the role

Rapides Regional Medical Center is seeking a Staff LPN to join our Float Pool Full Time, Day Shift, Weekends Rotate team. This position offers clear pathways for career growth and a supportive environment with mentorship opportunities, clinical education courses, and resources to help you build a fulfilling career.

Responsibilities

• Performs therapeutic and preventative nursing procedures, incorporating fundamental biological and psychological principles in giving individualized care.
• Participates in developing preventative or long-term health plans for patients and/or families.
• Provides patient’s family education that will enhance their knowledge of their disease process in order to maintain their health status and prevent advancement and/or deterioration of their disease process.
• Patient care will include all adolescents, adults, and geriatrics.
• Contribute to the development of the patient’s plan of care through identification and communication of patient’s need to the RN.
• Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety and related criteria appropriate to the following age groups; adolescent, adult, geriatric.
• Provide patient/family health education that promotes health behaviors, supports recovery and enables the patients and/or family to be involved in decisions and their plan of care.
• Able to identify potential or actual victims of abuse and understand proper reporting mechanisms.
• Able to recognize adverse drug reactions and demonstrate understanding of proper reporting mechanisms once reaction is identified.
• Able to appropriately assess the patient’s pain and involve the patient in effective management of that pain using age-appropriate interventions.
• Able to utilize patient care equipment safely and efficiently in accordance with hospital policies and procedures.
• Able to promote standard precautions and follow infection control principles in patient care.
• The Unit Manager, Charge Nurse, or Nursing Supervisor is informed of changes in the patients’ conditions and guidance is solicited when appropriate.
• Achieve stated goals related to job performance.

Qualifications

• Licensed Practical or Vocational Nurse (LPN/LVN).
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date.
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NCI) must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date.

Benefits

Rapides Regional Medical Center offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. This includes:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine services.
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence.
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and flexible spending accounts.
• Preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling.
• Tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

Details about the schedule are not specified in the job posting.