Registered Nurse (RN)/LPN - Immediate Care

We help our neighbors meet immediate needs and face long-term challenges. Together, we create a community where everyone is able to live with dignity and hope. Impelled by the love and teaching of Jesus Christ, while respecting the dignity and potential of all people, we collaborate to offer life-giving programs, advocate for the voiceless and empower the vulnerable to foster a just society . Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans (CCANO) has been an open door, a warm welcome, dry ground, a defending voice, and a hand up for generations of Louisiana residents. Our shared stories and strong roots help a diverse community stand tall together. Provides nursing care to patients under the direct and indirect supervision of the Nurse Manager or designee. Provides care for patients in common clinical situations utilizing advanced nursing practice knowledge and skills. Assessment: Collects patient data and completes required forms with appropriate responses according to CCANO standards; performs advanced nursing observations/data collections using critical thinking skills

• Planning Care: Makes referrals to multidisciplinary support services; follows patient care plan developed by RN.
• Implementing/Managing Care: Care provided conforms to accepted practice standards; provides correct treatments/procedures and other care as prescribed and according to patient care standards; demonstrates understanding of age-related characteristics and needs of patients served; explains nursing procedures in appropriate forms; identifies problems requiring emergency measures; understands and demonstrates respect for patient rights and utilizes established mechanisms for management of ethical issues in patient care.
• Evaluation: Records patient care delivered as planned and any variation, with rationale as appropriate; Using nursing process, delegates nursing care to appropriate personnel; integrates cost effective measures into nursing practice; recognizes unit problems and takes responsibility for documenting same; complies with CCANO expectations to meet staffing demands based on patient care needs. Complies with policies addressing safe working conditions; monitors unsafe working conditions and recognizes inappropriate patient care management, resolves issue/problem and completes written reports.

Medical, Dental, Vision

• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Employee Referral Bonus

~ EAP

~ Must be a graduate of an accredited school of practical nursing
Possess a current Louisiana license to practice nursing.
Prefer applicant have at least 18 months of LPN experience with 12 months in med surg preferred.
Must have practiced nursing in the last 3 years
Flexible

The Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans is an Equal Opportunity Employer At the CCANO , we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, veteran service, genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The CCANO complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which CCANO has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.