Registered Nurse (RN) - Neuroscience Unit

About the role

Join LCMC Health, and you'll find that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary. We offer a competitive salary up to $15,000 incentive, regular full-time benefits, and a supportive culture that values your unique contributions.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates and maintains a safe environment for patients and others.
• Utilizes the nursing process to develop and deliver a plan of care for assigned patients.
• Performs the priority technical procedures required by the area, department, and/or assignment safely, effectively, efficiently, and legally.
• Establishes and/or revises priorities for patient care activities based on the following: acuity of the need, resource availability, customer/patient preference/request, and other departmental needs.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to identify actions to improve patient care.
• Communicates using appropriate channels, proper hand-off, and escalation of information, data, and 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 to ensure continuity of care.
• Keeps patients informed and gives periodic updates as appropriate and positively contributes to the organizational goal of patient throughput.
• Seeks supervision, consultation, and assistance when unable to perform effectively or safely independently.
• Uses interpersonal-communication strategies with individuals to achieve desirable/acceptable outcomes/responses and the perception of satisfaction by those involved.
• Uses internal and/or external resources to resolve and/or prevent problems that cannot be managed independently.
• 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.
• 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.
• Contributes to the team by providing assistance to others without being asked.

Requirements

• Valid license or temporary permit to practice professional nursing in Louisiana.
• American Heart Association BLS-HCP.
• Work Shift: Nights (United States of America).

Qualifications

• Valid license or temporary permit to practice professional nursing in Louisiana.
• American Heart Association BLS-HCP.
• Nights (United States of America) work shift.

Skills

None specifically listed in the job posting.

Benefits

Regular full-time benefits offered.

Pay

Up to $15,000 salary incentive.

Schedule

Nights (United States of America).