RN license Must be a Registered Nurse or a License Practical Nurse in good standing and currently licensed in Arkansas (or multistate)Must be a Registered Nurse or a License Practical Nurse in good standing and currently licensed in Arkansas (or multistate)
Term
Permanent
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Experience
Minimum of 2 years experience in nursing in a long term care environment
Experience
Long term care experience preferred
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Ability to work with minimal supervision and strong organizational skills
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Demonstrates good judgment, problem solving and decision making skills
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Excellent communication, leadership and mentoring skills
Are you a compassionate and dedicated registered nurse looking for a flexible weekend schedule The Blossoms at West Dixon is seeking an RN to provide exceptional care to our residents every other weekend if you're passionate about making a difference a supportive and team -oriented environment, we’d love to hear from you.
This position is delegated the responsibility for carrying out the assigned duties and responsibilities in accordance with current existing federal and state regulations and established company policies and procedures.
Duties
Responsible for making rounds to observe and evaluate physical, emotional and social needs of residents
Prepares and administers medications charts as required
Administers treatments
Consults with physicians
Communicates with director of nursing and staff
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Job Requirements
Long term care experience preferred
Minimum of 2 years experience in nursing in a long term care environment
Must be a Registered Nurse or a License Practical Nurse in good standing and currently licensed in Arkansas (or multistate)
Ability to work with minimal supervision and strong organizational skills
Demonstrates good judgment, problem solving and decision making skills
Excellent communication, leadership and mentoring skills
Call for help the minute your patient looks off to you, not once you are sure. Needing help is not a mark against you. It puts more eyes on the patient, sooner.
“The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.”
— Florence Nightingale
Some shifts end with you crying in your car because it all catches up at once. That is allowed. Just say out loud, to someone you trust, that it was a bad one.
Get certified in whatever you keep gravitating toward. After my wound care certification it was like new glasses: I saw what I had not known to look for.
“Willingly, had they accepted me, I would have worked for the wounded, in return for bread and water.”
— Mary Seacole
When you are unsure and everyone else is slammed, try this: if another nurse walked up and put that exact question to you, what would you tell them to do?
Someone on clinicals may say something that has you wondering if you are cut out for this. Do not take it to heart. A couple of bad days are not the profession.
Three or four years went by before the overwhelmed feeling lifted, and close to six before I felt expert at the bedside. Measure this in years, not months.
Expect the unexpected every shift and at every hour of it. The part you can learn is flexibility: managing a bit of chaos, and finding something in it to enjoy.
“But time has helped to settle the question and a trained nurse’s position now is largely what she herself makes it.”
— Isabel Hampton Robb
Most of what a dying person's family needs is to hear that nothing has gone wrong, that this is what dying looks like, and that they are caring for them well.
There will always be one more patient and one more paper. Your kid is only a toddler once. Do not give the people at home what is left at the end of the week.
“To do what nobody else can do, in a way that nobody else will do, despite all that we go through, that is to be a nurse.”
— Rawsi Williams
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Life in Little Rock, AR
Neighborhoods+Nurses and young professionals most often land in The Heights along Kavanaugh Blvd, historic Hillcrest, and North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District for walkability, dining, and a short hop to central jobs; Midtown and downtown River Market/SoMa fit a more urban renter. Closer-in West Little Rock—Colony West, River Mountain, Walnut Valley, Chenal Valley, and Rock Creek—offers newer homes and family streets without going too far west on Chenal Parkway. Rough purchase tiers in the pack: Midtown about $175K–$400K, Heights/Hillcrest $250K–$600K, Chenal/West Little Rock $300K–$700K+, adjacent Sherwood $185K–$300K, lakeside Maumelle $220K–$450K, Pleasant Valley $280K–$600K+. Other named pockets include Cammack Village, Sturbridge, Quapaw Quarter, Capitol View, and Pettaway.
Nurses and young professionals most often land in The Heights along Kavanaugh Blvd, historic Hillcrest, and North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District for walkability, dining, and a short hop to central jobs; Midtown and downtown River Market/SoMa fit a more urban renter. Closer-in West Little Rock—Colony West, River Mountain, Walnut Valley, Chenal Valley, and Rock Creek—offers newer homes and family streets without going too far west on Chenal Parkway.
Rough purchase tiers in the pack: Midtown about $175K–$400K, Heights/Hillcrest $250K–$600K, Chenal/West Little Rock $300K–$700K+, adjacent Sherwood $185K–$300K, lakeside Maumelle $220K–$450K, Pleasant Valley $280K–$600K+. Other named pockets include Cammack Village, Sturbridge, Quapaw Quarter, Capitol View, and Pettaway.
Getting around+U.S. News puts the typical Little Rock commute at about 17.3 minutes; the city covers roughly 121 square miles with three major interstates, so most drives stay short versus larger Southern metros. Healthcare employment clusters at UAMS Medical Center, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Baptist Health, and CHI St. Vincent, with additional professional jobs along the Chenal Parkway corridor in West Little Rock. Midtown, the Heights, Hillcrest, and closer-in West Little Rock are the neighborhoods framed as centrally convenient. Sources do not describe hospital parking, shift-change traffic, or named transit lines, so treat this as a car-first city with brief average drives.
U.S. News puts the typical Little Rock commute at about 17.3 minutes; the city covers roughly 121 square miles with three major interstates, so most drives stay short versus larger Southern metros. Healthcare employment clusters at UAMS Medical Center, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Baptist Health, and CHI St. Vincent, with additional professional jobs along the Chenal Parkway corridor in West Little Rock.
Midtown, the Heights, Hillcrest, and closer-in West Little Rock are the neighborhoods framed as centrally convenient. Sources do not describe hospital parking, shift-change traffic, or named transit lines, so treat this as a car-first city with brief average drives.
Outdoors+The Arkansas River Trail runs more than 15 miles and links to the Big Dam Bridge, called the longest pedestrian and bicycle bridge in North America built for non-motorized traffic and a sunset stop. Pinnacle Mountain State Park is the close-in hike-and-bike destination; North Little Rock’s 1,700-acre Burns Park—one of the largest municipal parks in the nation—adds trails, golf, disc golf, a fishing pier, dog park, and Funland. Emerald Park’s paved Highland Trail sits on bluffs above the river (stroller- and bike-friendly, with dirt spurs), Crystal Bluff Climbing Crag at Big Rock Quarry offers about 150 bolted routes up to 80 feet near a BMX pump track, and kayakers use river launch points. The Little Rock Zoo and city/state park networks fill out the rest of the outdoor calendar.
The Arkansas River Trail runs more than 15 miles and links to the Big Dam Bridge, called the longest pedestrian and bicycle bridge in North America built for non-motorized traffic and a sunset stop. Pinnacle Mountain State Park is the close-in hike-and-bike destination; North Little Rock’s 1,700-acre Burns Park—one of the largest municipal parks in the nation—adds trails, golf, disc golf, a fishing pier, dog park, and Funland.
Emerald Park’s paved Highland Trail sits on bluffs above the river (stroller- and bike-friendly, with dirt spurs), Crystal Bluff Climbing Crag at Big Rock Quarry offers about 150 bolted routes up to 80 feet near a BMX pump track, and kayakers use river launch points. The Little Rock Zoo and city/state park networks fill out the rest of the outdoor calendar.
Check the commute at your shift’s start and end, upfront housing costs, and whether moving assistance must be repaid if you leave.
Living in Little Rock
Little Rock is a mid-sized capital that still prices like a smaller Southern city: healthcare-heavy (UAMS, Arkansas Children's, Baptist Health, CHI St. Vincent), river-trail infrastructure bigger metros struggle to match, and rents often 40–55% below Nashville or Dallas. Nurses typically land in The Heights or Hillcrest for walkable Kavanaugh Blvd dining, Midtown or River Market/SoMa for a short urban hop, Argenta for arts and breweries, or closer-in West Little Rock—Colony West, River Mountain, Walnut Valley, Chenal Valley, Rock Creek—for newer homes. Median homes run about $200K–$243K; two-bedrooms rent roughly $950–$1,500. Weekends default to the Arkansas River Trail, Big Dam Bridge, Pinnacle Mountain, and 1,700-acre Burns Park; nights go to the Clinton Center, Argenta's Johnny Cash bronzes, Simmons Bank Arena, Petit & Keet, Ciao Baci, Lost Forty, and The Croissanterie. Tradeoffs: housing tightened after tornadoes, safety is neighborhood-specific, heat and all-electric bills can spike, and life is car-first despite a 17-minute average commute. Live close to the hospitals and the affordability-plus-outdoors bet holds.
