Registered Nurse- Adolescent Tau

Job Overview

We are hiring immediately for a full-time Registered Nurse and offering a $10,000 sign-on bonus. The Registered Nurse provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way, incorporating differences into the provision of care.

With Our Lady of the Lake, we offer career opportunities for people who have a calling to share their gifts and talents as part of our healing ministry. In addition to competitive salaries and generous benefits, we offer:

• Growth opportunities
• Affordable employee benefits
• A community culture where you don’t feel lost in a large health system
• Tuition reimbursement

The Registered Nurse integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum to include patient and family education. Relies on education and training to complete responsibilities within scope of licensure as registered nurse.

• Clinical Practice and Care Management
• Performs psychosocial/physiologic assessments that integrate changing data.
• Formulates a plan of care based on trends of similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning.
• Participates in the planning of routine transitional health care needs.
• Responds to changes in patient's needs and provides holistic care using independent clinical judgment based on knowledge drawn from education and experience.
• Adapts planned educational programs and information to individual patients and family by modifying teaching strategies or content.
• Ensures efficiency in the delivery of care determines immediate priorities and offers solution for problems.
• Actively advocates for patient rights and identifies potential conflict.
• Identifies variances from expected outcomes.
• Evaluates patient outcomes and makes revisions in the plan of care.
• Documents all patient care activities as per documentation standards.
• Communication and Collaboration
• Consistently communicates/collaborates with the health care team members, patients and families to maximize patient outcomes.
• Appropriately delegates patient care activities to other health care team members and participates in making and revising staff assignments to achieve maximum productivity.
• Quality
• Demonstrates knowledge of unit-based quality improvement initiatives.
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives by utilizing standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery.
• Incorporates evidence-based practice and research findings into nursing practice to enhance outcomes.
• Professional Development
• Acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to health care team members; displays leadership behaviors.
• Identifies own learning needs based on self-evaluation and the progress made from the previous year's goals.
• Accountable for all documentation and completion of all required continuing education and competencies relevant to area of practice as defined by clinical management.

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing
• Proficient in the English language, verbal and written communication skills, computer skills
• Current Louisiana State license as RN and BLS certification