Graduate of accredited school of nursing with current state license as registered nurse; 2+ years nursing experience in clinical care setting (hospice experience preferred); reliable transportation; ability to lift 80-100 lbs.
Join Our Team as a Registered Nurse. Looking for registered nurses committed to creating meaningful patient experiences. RNs evaluate patients and create care plans, communicate with patient, family, and care team, and serve as the driver of the care team to ensure quality care. Hospice and palliative care setting.
Qualifications
Graduate of accredited school of nursing with current state license as registered nurse; 2+ years nursing experience in clinical care setting (hospice experience preferred); reliable transportation; ability to lift 80-100 lbs.
Neighborhoods+Young professionals and medical trainees (apartment guides explicitly mention PGYs) cluster in the walkable Central Business District—bordered by the French Quarter and the Mississippi—and Uptown near Audubon Park, the Garden District, and Magazine Street for historic streets with less Quarter chaos. Reddit locals with flexible budgets also recommend Fairgrounds/Bayou St. John. Safer residential in-city options are Lakeview and West End (safer than 93% and 94% of neighborhoods) plus budget-minded Gentilly Terrace and Old Aurora. Facebook and Niche add Jefferson and Northshore suburbs: Metairie, Harahan (2026 #1 metro suburb, population 8,904), Mandeville, Covington, and Hammond.
Young professionals and medical trainees (apartment guides explicitly mention PGYs) cluster in the walkable Central Business District—bordered by the French Quarter and the Mississippi—and Uptown near Audubon Park, the Garden District, and Magazine Street for historic streets with less Quarter chaos. Reddit locals with flexible budgets also recommend Fairgrounds/Bayou St. John.
Safer residential in-city options are Lakeview and West End (safer than 93% and 94% of neighborhoods) plus budget-minded Gentilly Terrace and Old Aurora. Facebook and Niche add Jefferson and Northshore suburbs: Metairie, Harahan (2026 #1 metro suburb, population 8,904), Mandeville, Covington, and Hammond.
Getting around+Citywide average commute is about 24 minutes. The CBD is repeatedly described as walkable and job-rich, with Rampart-St. Claude and Riverfront streetcar lines and easy walking toward the French Quarter; a travel guide recommends the CBD over the Quarter as a calmer base for getting around the city. Metairie sits in the middle of the metro, but residents say transit is tricky without a car if you live far from a bus stop. Sources do not name hospital campuses, shift-parking rules, or specific medical-center drives, so nurses still need to map their facility against car vs. streetcar.
Citywide average commute is about 24 minutes. The CBD is repeatedly described as walkable and job-rich, with Rampart-St. Claude and Riverfront streetcar lines and easy walking toward the French Quarter; a travel guide recommends the CBD over the Quarter as a calmer base for getting around the city.
Metairie sits in the middle of the metro, but residents say transit is tricky without a car if you live far from a bus stop. Sources do not name hospital campuses, shift-parking rules, or specific medical-center drives, so nurses still need to map their facility against car vs. streetcar.
Outdoors+City Park is the everyday backyard: centuries-old live oaks, sculpture and botanical gardens, Storyland, Carousel Gardens, Big Lake rentals (bike, kayak, gondola, pedal-boat), City Putt, disc golf, tennis, trails, and beignets. Uptown, Audubon Park has shaded jogging and biking loops under moss-draped oaks; Audubon Zoo adds Cool Zoo in summer. Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge and the Madere Marsh Boardwalk sit minutes from downtown, and Jean Lafitte airboat swamp tours put wildlife on the weekend map. Harahan's levee is a walking spot; Lafreniere Park is Metairie's go-to.
City Park is the everyday backyard: centuries-old live oaks, sculpture and botanical gardens, Storyland, Carousel Gardens, Big Lake rentals (bike, kayak, gondola, pedal-boat), City Putt, disc golf, tennis, trails, and beignets. Uptown, Audubon Park has shaded jogging and biking loops under moss-draped oaks; Audubon Zoo adds Cool Zoo in summer.
Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge and the Madere Marsh Boardwalk sit minutes from downtown, and Jean Lafitte airboat swamp tours put wildlife on the weekend map. Harahan's levee is a walking spot; Lafreniere Park is Metairie's go-to.
New Orleans is a low-rise, porch-hello city whose identity is food, brass-band jazz, and festivals—not skyline or ease. Average commute is about 24 minutes, but Metairie is hard without a car and safety is block-by-block. The draw is City Park oaks, Frenchmen Street and the Spotted Cat, Commander's Palace, legal go-cups, and Mardi Gras as civic religion. The tradeoffs are August humidity, hurricanes and flooding, pests, tourist noise, weak city schools, and insurance that is not vacation-cheap. Locals who stay are obsessed; do not come if you only know Bourbon Street in February.
