Your job is more than a job.
Because this is more than checking boxes and completing tasks. This is about caring for people during some of their most vulnerable moments. It’s about noticing the small changes, listening to the stories, calming concerns, supporting families, advocating for what matters most, and helping patients maintain their dignity and independence.
If you’re the kind of nurse who combines clinical excellence with compassion—and you’re ready for a role where your skills, heart, and ability to make a difference truly matter—we’d love to meet you.
Up to $15,000 Salary Incentive
As a Senior Care Med/Surg Registered Nurse, your passion for nursing, mental toughness, heart of gold, and yes your skills make you an invaluable part of our team. You thrive on the front lines of patient care and understand that caring for older adults often means building meaningful relationships, listening closely, advocating fiercely, and treating every patient with dignity and respect.
You sweat the small stuff and bring your very best to every bedside, call light, hand hold, chart entry, medical need, team request, family concern and yes, even the proverbial Jello request.
You appreciate the wide range of nursing skills Med/Surg demands and understand that there is truly never a dull moment. From managing complex medical conditions and monitoring changes in patient status to supporting mobility, preventing complications, educating families, and coordinating care across the continuum, every day brings a new opportunity to make a difference.
And that’s exactly what we love about you.
Your experience, clinical knowledge, skills, empathy, compassion, and that “little something extra” all add up to who you are. We’re excited to get to know you and discover what you’ll bring to this hands-on, fast-paced, and rewarding nursing role serving our senior patient population.
Prioritize, coordinate, and delegate all aspects of patient care while managing the unique and often complex needs of senior adult patients.
Work closely with physicians, advanced practice providers, therapists, case managers, pharmacists, and other multidisciplinary team members to deliver exceptional, patient-centered care.
Maintain and promote a safe environment for patients, families, visitors, and team members, with a strong focus on fall prevention, mobility, skin integrity, infection prevention, and other age-specific safety needs.
Monitor and engage with patients, families, and appropriate care team members regarding significant events, changes in patient condition, questions, concerns, and individualized care needs.
Assess, prevent, and treat wounds while promoting skin integrity, mobility, comfort, and overall healing.
Monitor and execute Joint Commission, infection control, and environment of care requirements to support safe, high-quality patient care.
Ensure continuity of care, efficient patient throughput, consistent communication, and an exceptional experience for every patient and family.
Consult with leadership and appropriate team members when assignments or tasks cannot be completed promptly, effectively, or safely.
Initiate patient and family education using appropriate resources and continuum-of-care services, helping patients and caregivers understand diagnoses, treatments, medications, discharge plans, and next steps.
Contribute to a supportive, collaborative environment by stepping in and assisting others—sometimes before they even have to ask.
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LCMC Health is a community.
Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary
Touro, at the forefront of medical excellence within LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, has been regionally recognized for 165 years as one of New Orleans' most enduring healthcare monuments. It’s where babies come from and New Orleanians are cared for. Learn more about Touro and our Leapfrog “Grade A” Hospital Safety distinction
You are welcome here.
LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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 change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.
Simple things make the difference.
We believe a hospital should actually be hospitable.
We’re a New Orleans-based, non-profit health system on a mission: to provide the best possible care for every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond, and to put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. And that means we do things a little differently around here.
Treating people like family is the LCMC Health way, and it always has been. Founded by Louisiana’s first freestanding children’s hospital, we’ve grown into a healthcare system that’s built to serve the unique needs of our communities and families across New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and beyond.
We believe in treating the whole patient, not just the condition. When you visit an LCMC Health facility, you will get the care that is best for you and your family because we believe that shared beliefs and positive outlooks are what drive our exceptional care.
We offer nine hospital locations: Children’s Hospital New Orleans, East Jefferson General Hospital, New Orleans East Hospital, Touro, University Medical Center New Orleans, West Jefferson Medical Center, Lakeview Hospital, and Lakeside Hospital. We also deliver world-class care close to home through a network of urgent care centers across the greater New Orleans area in addition to our physician practices. With over 2,200 board-certified physicians specializing in everything from head to toe, our community can count on us to provide the right care, right where they need it.
We’ve got a rich history, but our sights are set on what comes next. We’re committed to leading the way to a healthier future for the Gulf Coast. That’s why we partner with local universities to bring the latest in care to our patients, and to train the next generation of healthcare professionals that will make a difference right here in our communities.
