Registered Nurse; RN - Picayune Pediatrics

Overview

Why a Great Place To Work

You’re more than your job. Everyone is. And that’s what makes you great at your job—all the little extras you bring to work every day, the things that make you you. At LCMC Health we value those things and have built a culture that supports and celebrates the extraordinary. You’ll see it when you come to work here, in the spirit of our places and the faces of our people.

Every patient we heal, every family we comfort, and every life we improve is the outcome of countless little extras adding up to an extraordinary result. Join LCMC Health, and you’ll find that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary.

Essential Functions

The RN Staff Nurse assesses, plans, implements and evaluates patient care based on the standards of care and the policies of LCMC Health. Delegates to professional and non-professional personnel involved in the delivery of care. Facilitates and maintains a safe environment for patients and others with a specialty in wound care treatment and prevention:

• Performs the priority technical procedures required by the area/department/assignment safely, effectively, efficiently and legally.
• 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.

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.
• Communicates using appropriate channels information, data, significant events or 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, shift report, patient/family/physician team member complaints, defective equipment, etc.
• Keeps patients informed and gives periodic updates as appropriate and positively contributes to the organizational goal of patient throughput.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to identify actions to improve patient care and education.
• Seeks supervision, consultation, and assistance when unable to perform effectively or safely independently.
• Delegates safely and appropriately to other team members to accomplish direct patient care or support activities.
• Performs proper hand-off to ensure continuity of care while identifying and communicating problems.
• Advises supervisor of current or anticipated problems and accepts and completes assignments in a timely fashion.
• Uses age-appropriate principles of learning and initiates, consults, and collaborates with available patient education resources.
• Works closely with physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and social workers to meet the educational needs of the patient/family.

Customer Service

• Continuously displays a positive attitude that contributes to patient satisfaction and utilizes the service recovery process to address patients’ concerns or complaints.
• Recognizes customer needs and begins to solve problems as soon as they are apparent.
• Contributes to the team by aiding others without being asked.

Professional Development

• Maintains current knowledge in nursing practice.
• Regularly participates in activities to maintain and expand nursing knowledge in area of practice.
• Readily assists others and works in designated alternative areas when needed.

Experience

Job Qualifications:

• Previous medical experience preferred.
• 1 year of experience in physician practice, preferably in pediatrics.

License/Certification

• Current Louisiana State RN Licensure Required and CPR certification required.

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 and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and…