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About the Role

This position is a great opportunity for nursing students (or recent grads awaiting licensure) to gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced healthcare environment. You’ll work closely with nurses and other healthcare professionals while building practical skills that support your future nursing career.

This job description outlines the general responsibilities of the role but isn’t all-inclusive. As a learning organization, LCMC Health may adjust duties to meet patient and operational needs.

What You’ll Learn & Do🛡️ Patient Care, Quality & Safety

You’ll be an important part of keeping patients safe and comfortable while learning best practices in clinical care. Responsibilities include:

Supporting nursing staff with patient transport, repositioning, and transfers using proper body mechanics

Practicing standard precautions and isolation techniques as appropriate

Selecting age- and developmentally appropriate equipment such as stretchers, side rails, and restraints

Monitoring patients in holding areas and helping maintain a safe environment

Performing hand hygiene before and after all patient interactions

🧼 Unit & Environmental Support

You’ll gain exposure to how a clinical unit functions day to day by:

Cleaning and resetting patient bays after each use

Sanitizing equipment and workstations

Emptying linen hampers and stocking/rotating linens in blanket warmers

Unboxing, organizing, and stocking supplies

Reporting broken equipment and assisting with work order requests

📞 Communication & Team Coordination

Strong communication is a key nursing skill, and you’ll practice it daily by:

Answering phones and relaying messages accurately

Verifying room assignments when needed

Communicating with patient liaisons to support patient and family needs, under RN direction

🚚 Additional Learning Opportunities

Depending on the shift, you may also:

Transport specimens to the laboratory

Receive and verify supply deliveries from the Purchasing Department

Escort parents or guardians to and from the unit

🤝 Teamwork & Professional Development

You’ll be treated as a valued member of the care team while developing professional habits such as:

Stepping in to help when needed and volunteering when you see opportunities

Staying informed through the unit communication board

Attending required unit in-services and continuing education programs

Licenses & Certifications

Current enrollment in an accredited Professional School of Nursing or graduate of an accredited Professional School of Nursing awaiting NCLEX licensure

Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association

WORK SHIFT:

Variable Hours (United States of America)

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.

Lakeview Hospital, the center of LCMC Health’s extraordinary community of care on the Northshore, provides the only Level II trauma center in St. Tammany Parish. Along with our signature healthcare and wellness services, we continuously adopt the latest treatments, technologies, and medical innovations to better serve our patients. Learn more about Lakeview Hospital and our nationally recognized standards of excellence for heart, stroke, orthopedic, and women’s care.  

Your extras
• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion. 
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do.

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.
1. To get started, take your time to fully and accurately complete the application for employment. Incomplete applications get bogged down and are often eliminated due to missing information.
2. To ensure quality care and service, we may use information on your application to verify your previous employment and background. 
3. To keep our career applications up-to-date, applications are inactive after 6 months and, therefore, require a new application for employment to be completed.
4. To expedite the hiring process, proof of citizenship or immigration status will be required to verify your lawful right to work in the United States.