Charge RN (Full Time-Nights)- Surgery

Texas Health • Dallas, TX

12h • Onsite

About The Position

The Charge Registered Nurse provides nursing care in the Surgery department at Texas Health Dallas, an 875-bed Magnet-designated hospital and Level I Trauma Center. The Surgery department includes 24 main operating rooms, two endovascular rooms, three robot rooms, and two heart rooms, with a high-volume practice in open vascular, endovascular, and cardiac surgery and a strong minimally invasive cardiovascular program.

The role follows Texas Health’s Quality Caring Model, a nursing theory developed by Dr. Joanne Duffy. Nurses are expected to demonstrate its caring factors, and charge nurses must model this behavior consistently. These factors include responding to safety and other human needs, respecting each person’s worth, engaging families and caregivers, understanding each person’s perspective, and using mutual problem-solving with patients and families.

This is a full-time position scheduled for 40 hours per week, nights, Monday through Thursday from 8:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., with rotating holiday call.

Requirements

• Nursing diploma or associate degree in nursing required; bachelor’s degree in nursing preferred.
• At least 1 year of experience as a registered nurse in a hospital setting required.
• Registered Nurse (RN) license required upon hire.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required before providing independent patient care and must be maintained quarterly.

Nice To Haves

• At least 3 years of experience as a registered nurse in an operating room strongly preferred.
• At least 1 year of operating room charge nurse experience strongly preferred.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) preferred upon hire.

Responsibilities

• Model Texas Health’s Quality Caring Model and its caring factors consistently.
• Respond to patients’ priorities regarding safety and physical, psychological, and social needs.
• Honor the worth of patients through unconditional acceptance.
• Engage families and caregivers in healthcare situations.
• Seek to understand patients’ and families’ frames of reference.
• Use shared problem-solving to help patients and families understand and address health and illness, reaching decisions acceptable to those involved.
• Deliver high-quality patient care through nursing education, nursing research, and innovations in nursing practice.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible spending account
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness
• Other benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree