Description

We are committed
to providing our employees with the support they need. At Rapides Regional we offer an array of
medical, dental, and vision packages as well as several add-on perks to make
your benefits package truly customizable to you and your family needs. Some of
our unique benefits
we offer include:

• Tuition
  Reimbursement/Assistance Programs
• Paid
  Personal Leave
• 401k
  (100% annual match – 3%-9% of pay based on years of service)
• Identity
  Theft Protection discounts
• Auto,
  Home, and Life Insurance options
• Adoption
  Assistance
• Employee
  Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

We are
seeking a Registered Nurse for our center to ensure that we continue to provide
all patients with high quality, efficient care. 
Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team
that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition
like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do.  We want you to apply now!

Ortho/Neuro/Trauma
nurses are the master coordinators of the unit, juggling care for their patients
while keeping the entire health care team on the same page. They have
high-level critical thinking skills, vast clinical knowledge, and are able to
stay calm under pressure.

• 36-bed unit caring for Ortho/Neuro/Trauma
     patients
• Teamwork centered atmosphere
• Consecutively earning the Unit of Distinction
     (UOD) award
• Patient safety
  and satisfaction are our number one priority

• Through assessment
     of the patient’s physical, nutritional, psychosocial, spiritual,
     emotional, cultural, educational, and rehabilitative needs, problems are
     identified and documented in the clinical record and communicated to the
     physician, case manager, and ancillary departments when appropriate
• Appropriate
     standards of care, care plans, and interventions are initiated,
     professionally modified, and communicated to the patient and other members
     of the healthcare team
• Able to
     demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based on
     physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria
     appropriate to the following age groups:  pediatric, children,
     adolescent, adult, geriatric
• Provides
     patient/family health education that promotes healthy behaviors, supports
     recovery, and enables the patient/family to be involved in decisions about
     their own care
• The patient’s
     responses to interventions and progress toward desired outcomes are
     assessed, re-assessed, evaluated, and documented in the clinical record
• Patient care
     activities are coordinated through collaboration and planning with other
     members of the healthcare team
• Physicians’ orders
     are carried out accurately and efficiently, and clarified when necessary
• Adverse or sudden
     changes in the patient’s conditions are promptly communicated to the
     physician, charge nurse, nursing supervisor, and/or family with specific
     and pertinent data
• Able to identify
     potential or actual victims of abuse and understands the proper reporting
     mechanism
• Able to recognize
     adverse drug reactions and demonstrates understanding of proper reporting
     mechanism once reaction is identified
• Appropriately
     assesses the patient’s pain and involves the patient in effective
     management of that pain using appropriate interventions
• Able to
     demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary for administration of blood
     and blood products and appropriately monitors the patient receiving
     blood/blood products for any transfusion reaction; takes proper measures
     once a reaction is recognized
• Patient care
     equipment is utilized safely and efficiently in accordance with hospital
     policies and procedures
• Standard
     precautions are promoted and followed in the utilization of principles of
     infection control in patient care
• Achieves stated
     goals related to job performance

Qualifications

• Graduate of a Nursing Program from an accredited school
• Currently licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in
     the State of Louisiana
• CPR for Healthcare Providers to be completed within 30
     days of hire
• ACLS to be completed within 30 days of hire

Rapides Regional
Medical Center is an award-winning 350+ bed hospital and ER in Alexandria,
Louisiana that offers a wide array of services ranging from Cancer Care to
Wound Care, and our medical staff includes doctors in more than 30 medical
specialties.

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