Day Surgery RN
About The Position
As a Registered Nurse on the Float/Flex Team at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, you will provide compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to support patients’ well-being and recovery. The role involves making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, implementing care plans, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to promote optimal patient outcomes. Success requires keen assessment skills, critical thinking, a patient-first mindset, urgency, reliability, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment. The RN uses the nursing process to deliver cost-effective, quality-driven, patient-focused care. This includes gathering pertinent social, psychological, developmental, and spiritual information; assessing patients; developing nursing diagnoses and goals; planning interventions; and evaluating outcomes. The RN documents care according to health system standards and provides patient and family education on topics such as pain management, nutrition, skin integrity, fall prevention, diabetes, disease processes, smoking cessation, and discharge instructions. The role also supports patient safety, confidentiality, ethical decision-making, cost containment, and research-informed practice, including participation in research activities and collaboration with Outcomes managers and the department.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
- At least one year of RN experience; the posting also specifies 24 months.
- Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meeting the experience requirements upon hire.
- Texas Registered Nurse license upon hire.
- Basic Life Support (CPR) certification within 14 days.
Responsibilities
- Provide individualized, compassionate, high-quality patient care using the nursing process.
- Collect pertinent social, psychological, developmental, and spiritual data from patients, significant others, and healthcare team members.
- Perform ongoing assessments, formulate nursing diagnoses and goals, plan appropriate interventions, and evaluate outcomes.
- Perform skilled procedures and implement patient care plans.
- Document in patient and unit records according to written health system standards of care and legal and quality requirements.
- Teach patients and families about pain management, nutrition, skin integrity, fall prevention, diabetes, disease processes, smoking cessation, and discharge instructions.
- Promote patient safety, confidentiality, ethical decision-making, and cost containment.
- Use research-substantiated interventions as appropriate and participate in research activities.
- Identify research opportunities and collaborate with Outcomes managers and the department.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
