RN Staff Nurse Work On Weekend- Nights (Operating Room)

About the role

LCMC Health is a community dedicated to bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond. We celebrate authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion, and a "come on in" attitude, forming a culture of everyday extraordinary.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates and maintains a safe environment for patients and others
• Performs the priority technical procedures required by the area/department/assignment safely, effectively, efficiently, and legally
• Promotes and supports LCMC Health's performance improvement initiatives by implementing infection control practices, maintaining the environment of care consistent with Joint Commission requirements, and participating in quality improvement activities and review/audit processes
• Gives rationale for actions or decisions based on logic, successful experience, intuition, and/or established policies/procedures
• Communicates using appropriate channels information, data, significant events of problems to appropriate persons, including: current patient condition/status, changes in the patient’s condition/status, laboratory/diagnostic data, intake & output, nutrition needs/status, patient needs, assessment findings and changes, shifts report, unit problems, patient/family/physician team member complaints, defective equipment, supply usage
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to identify actions to improve patient care and education
• Delegates safely and appropriately to other team members to accomplish direct patient care or support activities
• Uses age-appropriate principles of learning, and initiates, consults, and collaborates with available patient education resources and works closely with physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and a social worker to meet the educational needs of the patient/family
• Treats all customers with dignity, respect, courtesy, and compassion, recognizing customer needs and beginning to solve problems as soon as they are apparent
• Contributes to the team by providing assistance to others without being asked

Requirements

1 year of professional nursing experience

Valid license or temporary permit to practice professional nursing in Louisiana

American Heart Association, BLS-HCP

Qualifications

Maintains current knowledge in nursing practice

Participates in activities to maintain and expand nursing knowledge in area of practice

Skills

Complies with state and federal regulatory and accrediting agencies (e.g., patient safety, infection control, HIPAA, etc.)

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

Verbal and written communications are clear, concise, and accurate; uses positive non-verbal communication effectively and documents in a responsible, accountable, and ethical manner

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

Weekends (United States of America)