Are you passionate about healthcare and looking to start the next chapter in your career? Are you interested in a rare opportunity to reopen an established and well-respected hospital in a brand-new facility and provide the service and care to the community that larger institutions don’t? Do you want to work for an employer that values you and offers an award-winning company culture, work-life balance, and opportunities for advancement?
If you answered “yes” to the above, we want to hear from you! We are New Orleans’ premier boutique surgical hospital, and we are looking for talented and experienced candidates to immediately join our team ahead of our upcoming reopening.
Job Duties
- Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings.
- Develops relationships with patients and their multidisciplinary team to facilitate and/or navigate through subsequent treatment and follow-up to reflect continuity of care.
- Manages high risk, complex patient care with the goal of minimizing readmission.
- Works closely with physicians to coordinate patient’s care plan communication; works with multidisciplinary team to maintain and implement up-to-date coordinated patient centered care plan; communicates with all members of the healthcare team as patient advocate.
- Prepares, executes, and reinforces post-discharge care plan.
- Identifies barriers to care in an effort to elicit changes in processes for patients navigating the continuum of care.
- Collaborates with leadership to review processes with the goal of improving the clinical experience for referred patients and the referring physician.
- Adapts behavior to the specific patient population, including but not limited to: respect for privacy, method of introduction to the patient, adapting explanation of services or procedures to be performed, requesting permissions and communication style.
- Performs other related duties as required.
Education
Required - Registered nurse diploma.
Preferred - Associate's or bachelor's degree in nursing.
Work Experience
Required - 2 years of nursing experience.
Certifications
Required - Current registered nurse (RN) license in state of practice.
Basic Life Support (BLS) from the American Heart Association.
Preferred - Certification in clinical specialty area.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
- Proficiency in using computers, software, and web-based applications.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to present information clearly and professionally to varying levels of individuals throughout the patient care process.
- Excellent conflict resolution skills.
Education
Required
- Bachelors or better in Nursing
Licenses & Certifications
Required
- Adv Cardiac Life Support
- Basic Life Support
- Pediatric Adv Life Suprt
- Registered Nurse
Job Type: Full-time