The competent Nurse, in the same or similar clinical setting, practices independently and demonstrates an awareness of all relevant aspects of a situation. Provides routine and complex care, with the ability to on long-range goals or plans. Continues to develop the ability to cope with and manage contingencies of clinical nursing. Makes appropriate assignments and delegates to other care providers as a means to help manage the clinical situation.
Responsibilities
Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
Consistent with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, provides nursing care utilizing the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention and evaluation for assigned patients.
Addresses increasingly complex psychological, emotional, cultural, and social needs of patient and families in accordance with their level of practice.
Using the appropriate protocol, administers medications and treatments; monitors for side-effects and effectiveness of the treatment prescribed.
Documents patient history, symptoms, medication, and care given.
Assess learning needs and provides education to patients, family members and/or care givers; identify issues and resources.
Job
Requirements
Education/Skills
Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred
Experience
1 year of experience in the related nursing specialty preferred
Neighborhoods+Nurses and young professionals commonly look at Broadmoor, Anderson Island (Anderson Isle), and Shreve Island (Shreve Isle)—walkable pockets near bars, lounges, grocery stores, gyms, and the Red River National Wildlife Refuge, with Shreveport Regional Airport close by. Highland and South Highland (Caddo Heights/South Highlands) sit about a 10-minute drive south of downtown among 20th-century historic homes, tree canopy, churches, parks, and medical centers; Facebook residents specifically praise Broadmoor, Highland, and South Highland for safety and community. Reddit relocators add north Bossier, Benton, and Stonewall when they want a short drive to work. Downtown riverfront offers historic-charm lofts and luxury apartments aimed at singles; Youree Drive is the everyday retail corridor; Cross Lake and gated Southern Trace sit at the luxury end.
Nurses and young professionals commonly look at Broadmoor, Anderson Island (Anderson Isle), and Shreve Island (Shreve Isle)—walkable pockets near bars, lounges, grocery stores, gyms, and the Red River National Wildlife Refuge, with Shreveport Regional Airport close by. Highland and South Highland (Caddo Heights/South Highlands) sit about a 10-minute drive south of downtown among 20th-century historic homes, tree canopy, churches, parks, and medical centers; Facebook residents specifically praise Broadmoor, Highland, and South Highland for safety and community.
Reddit relocators add north Bossier, Benton, and Stonewall when they want a short drive to work. Downtown riverfront offers historic-charm lofts and luxury apartments aimed at singles; Youree Drive is the everyday retail corridor; Cross Lake and gated Southern Trace sit at the luxury end.
Getting around+Citywide average commute is about 17 minutes, and movers’ guides flag very little car traffic versus large metros; Facebook locals treat a 20–25 minute radius as the practical target. Interstates I-20, I-220, and I-49 cross the city; LSU Health Shreveport trains and places clinicians into Willis-Knighton Health System, with Barksdale Air Force Base across the Red River in Bossier City. For a short drive to work, Reddit points to in-town Shreveport, north Bossier, Benton, and Stonewall. Sources do not describe hospital parking rules or named transit lines.
Citywide average commute is about 17 minutes, and movers’ guides flag very little car traffic versus large metros; Facebook locals treat a 20–25 minute radius as the practical target. Interstates I-20, I-220, and I-49 cross the city; LSU Health Shreveport trains and places clinicians into Willis-Knighton Health System, with Barksdale Air Force Base across the Red River in Bossier City.
For a short drive to work, Reddit points to in-town Shreveport, north Bossier, Benton, and Stonewall. Sources do not describe hospital parking rules or named transit lines.
Outdoors+Shreveport lists 63 parks spanning more than 29,000 acres, plus bayous with hiking paths and fishing and nearby scenic wildlife refuges. Named places include the Red River National Wildlife Refuge, American Rose Center, Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park, Cross Lake, Lake Caroline, Caddo Lake State Park, and the Red River itself. Gators and Friends Adventure Park and the Shreveport Aquarium add family outdoor time; fishing and hunting are regional staples, and lake weekends are a local habit. Spring and fall are the comfortable seasons to be outside; summers are hot and humid.
Shreveport lists 63 parks spanning more than 29,000 acres, plus bayous with hiking paths and fishing and nearby scenic wildlife refuges. Named places include the Red River National Wildlife Refuge, American Rose Center, Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park, Cross Lake, Lake Caroline, Caddo Lake State Park, and the Red River itself.
Gators and Friends Adventure Park and the Shreveport Aquarium add family outdoor time; fishing and hunting are regional staples, and lake weekends are a local habit. Spring and fall are the comfortable seasons to be outside; summers are hot and humid.
Shreveport is the Red River hub of the Ark-La-Tex, where LSU Health Shreveport feeds clinicians into Willis-Knighton and typical drives run about 17 minutes on I-20, I-220, and I-49. The genuine distinction is cheap space plus a compact Southern city: median home values near $170,000, apartment rents often $772 to $1,321, historic streets in Highland and South Highland, walkable Broadmoor, Anderson Island, and Shreve Island, or a short hop to north Bossier, Benton, or Stonewall. Downtown pairs Municipal Auditorium and the Louisiana Hayride with murals, the lighted Texas Street Bridge, and riverboat casinos; Youree Drive is the daily retail spine. Eat Strawn’s icebox pie, Southern Maid Donuts, Herby-K’s po-boys, Monjuni’s, and The Blind Tiger. Sixty-three parks cover more than 29,000 acres, with Cross Lake, the American Rose Center, and Red River National Wildlife Refuge close. Tradeoffs are blunt: crime above average near the airport and casinos, mixed school reputation, humid summers in the high 90s with tornado warnings, and a declining, lower-income population. Spring and fall are the living seasons; the State Fair of Louisiana lasts 17 autumn days. It is a friendly, car-first, food-and-outdoors big small town—not a boom city.
