Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse (Full Time)

Lake Charles Memorial Health System

• Provide hands‑on patient care as part of the Patient Care Team using the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate direct patient care.
• Make sound clinical decisions and provide comprehensive delivery of care to each individual patient, including a wide variety of patient care activities and services.
• Possesses competency in the use of technology and computers.
• Demonstrates competency in the use of Smart Pumps and in administering medication.
• Has knowledge of and utilizes unit‑specific equipment appropriately.
• Organizes patient care and general unit activities, delegating these activities to other staff as appropriate.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams in planning and organizing patient care from admission to discharge.
• Consistently participates in the multidisciplinary approach to patient care.
• Follows evidence‑based policies and procedures to guide nursing practice.
• Demonstrates best practices such as huddles, hourly rounding, bedside reporting, Service Excellence principles, and use of white boards.
• Understands and appropriately responds to cultural variables in interactions with professionals and patients/individuals.
• Evaluates ethical challenges and their potential impact on patient quality of care and the nurse’s professional role.
• Uses the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate the plan of care.
• Performs initial assessments and reassessments and documents appropriately.
• Interprets and implements physician orders.
• Competently performs or assists with routinely performed procedures.
• Educates patients and families, documenting appropriately.
• Documents accurately according to department policy.
• Actively participates in the implementation of the Unit PI plan.
• Suggests recommendations for improved operations.

• Graduate of a School of Nursing.
• Current Louisiana Registered Nurse license or compact state license as Registered Nurse.
• BLS‑CPR certified.
• Ability to read, write, and speak intelligible English; ability to learn quickly, analyze problems, and communicate effectively with superiors, peers, and others on a one‑to‑one basis.
• Requires emotional stability and resilience; adaptability to change, decisiveness, foresight.
• Possesses basic problem‑solving skills.

• Requires standing, walking, bending, stooping, and lifting of 50‑100 pounds at a time for sustained periods.
• Work environment may be physically confining.
• Acute hearing required for listening with a stethoscope to breath and heart sounds.
• Must exchange accurate information with patients, families, peers, and medical personnel.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

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