LPN - Emergency Department PRN

Your job is more than a job.

Your calling as an LPN Nursedemonstrates 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. Whetherit’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. Andthat’s what we love about you.   

Your experiences, knowledge, skills, empathy, compassion, and your “little something extra” all add up to you. Andwe’re excited to get to know you and find out whatyou’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, patientpreference and other departmental needs.  

Manage andidentify medical needs responding to dataindicating 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 membersidentifying actions to improve patient care and seeking supervision,consultation andassistance 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, andappropriate care team members concerningsignificant 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/ormaintain interventions to assure safe and effective care including medication management. 

Educate patients and family usingappropriate 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:

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 andresponsibilities.  LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

Simple things make the difference.
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