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+Locals steer newcomers toward neighborhoods south of town and Moss Bluff; North Lake Charles is described as generally nice, and the Civic Center area also comes up. Graywood is the premium planned suburb around Graywood Golf and Racquet Club (average value about $570K, listings from $341K to $2.5M). Margaret Place Historic District has 1910–1945 bungalows and Edwardian homes (average value about $408K) near Drew Park, with I-210 making in-town drives easy. Charpentier Historic District is known for Victorian architecture; Prien and the Prien Lake lakeshore, downtown Ryan Street lofts and cottages, and apartment pockets such as Villages of Lake Charles, Sunset Court, Tuten Terrace, Wilshire Place, Greinwich Village, and Springs at Country Club cover more typical rentals. Sulphur, about 20 minutes west, is often named as a cheaper rental alternative.
Locals steer newcomers toward neighborhoods south of town and Moss Bluff; North Lake Charles is described as generally nice, and the Civic Center area also comes up. Graywood is the premium planned suburb around Graywood Golf and Racquet Club (average value about $570K, listings from $341K to $2.5M).
Margaret Place Historic District has 1910–1945 bungalows and Edwardian homes (average value about $408K) near Drew Park, with I-210 making in-town drives easy. Charpentier Historic District is known for Victorian architecture; Prien and the Prien Lake lakeshore, downtown Ryan Street lofts and cottages, and apartment pockets such as Villages of Lake Charles, Sunset Court, Tuten Terrace, Wilshire Place, Greinwich Village, and Springs at Country Club cover more typical rentals.
Sulphur, about 20 minutes west, is often named as a cheaper rental alternative.
Getting around+The citywide average commute is about 14.91 minutes in a compact parish-seat layout. Margaret Place residents use Interstate 210 for cross-town trips; south-of-town, Prien, Graywood, downtown, and Moss Bluff are all short drives from the core. Sulphur is about 20 minutes from Lake Charles. These sources do not name hospital campuses, bus lines, or parking conditions.
The citywide average commute is about 14.91 minutes in a compact parish-seat layout. Margaret Place residents use Interstate 210 for cross-town trips; south-of-town, Prien, Graywood, downtown, and Moss Bluff are all short drives from the core.
Sulphur is about 20 minutes from Lake Charles. These sources do not name hospital campuses, bus lines, or parking conditions.
Outdoors+Sam Houston Jones State Park is the go-to for trails, lakes, rivers, and a riverfront boardwalk, especially in cooler fall weather. The Creole Nature Trail All-American Road and Rockefeller Refuge are the big wildlife and fishing drives. Prien Lake, the Calcasieu River, and bayous around Margaret Place Historic District shape everyday water life; Drew Park sits next to that historic district. Graywood Golf and Racquet Club plays year-round. Hunting and fishing are core local identity, not weekend hobbies.
Sam Houston Jones State Park is the go-to for trails, lakes, rivers, and a riverfront boardwalk, especially in cooler fall weather. The Creole Nature Trail All-American Road and Rockefeller Refuge are the big wildlife and fishing drives.
Prien Lake, the Calcasieu River, and bayous around Margaret Place Historic District shape everyday water life; Drew Park sits next to that historic district. Graywood Golf and Racquet Club plays year-round.
Hunting and fishing are core local identity, not weekend hobbies.
Lake Charles is Louisiana’s fifth-most populous city, a compact Calcasieu Parish seat where lakefront Cajun life, casino resorts, and a petrochemical port economy share the same short drive. For a nurse the practical hook is cost and time: about 83,000 residents, a typical 15-minute commute, median home value $220,810 versus $359,870 nationally, and rents ranging from a $873 median to a $1,166 average. Live south of town, in Prien or Graywood—planned around the golf club and fed by St. John Elementary, S.J. Welsh Middle, and Barbe High—or in Moss Bluff; Sulphur, 20 minutes west, is cheaper. Downtown Ryan Street, Charpentier, and Margaret Place offer Victorian cottages, bungalows, and lofts near Drew Park. Eat po-boys at Darrell’s (ask for jalapeño mayo), Leonard’s, Tony’s, or KD’s at 4 a.m.; splurge at Pat’s of Henderson; add Nina P’s, Seafood Palace, crawfish, and king cake. Mardi Gras and the spring Louisiana Pirate Festival fill the streets; weekends go to Sam Houston Jones State Park, the Creole Nature Trail, Rockefeller Refuge, or year-round golf. Tradeoffs: brutal humidity, hurricanes, mosquitoes, pollen, Monday-noon plant sirens, crime complaints, and schools that improve as you move southwest.
