Main PACU RN

CommonSpirit Health•Houston, TX

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to patients in the Main PACU. The role includes assessing patients, performing skilled procedures, implementing and evaluating care plans, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to support recovery and optimal outcomes. The nurse addresses patients’ physical, psychological, and spiritual needs and helps prepare them for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies. The RN develops and documents patient care and teaching plans, coordinates safe transitions and discharge planning, monitors patients for changes, and communicates concerns to physicians and appropriate team members. The role also includes maintaining patient safety and a safe work environment, documenting care and supplies, providing bedside shift reports, participating in patient experience activities, and meeting professional licensure, competency, and continuing education requirements. The position is based at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, a 1,045-bed hospital in the Texas Medical Center.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
One year of RN experience.
Texas Registered Nurse license upon hire.
Basic Life Support (CPR) certification within 14 days.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification within 6 months.

Responsibilities

Perform admission and ongoing assessments and provide nursing care addressing patients’ physical, psychological, and spiritual needs.
Notify physicians of changes in patient assessments that require attention.
Design, direct, evaluate, and document care plans, patient and family teaching, and safe transition and discharge plans.
Coordinate with other clinical disciplines to address specialized care and discharge needs.
Prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies.
Monitor patient conditions and report significant changes to the Charge Nurse, Team Leader, or physician.
Implement patient safety initiatives and protocols, including medication safety practices, physician orders, and consult notifications.
Reassess patients after interventions, notify physicians as necessary, and adjust care to meet changing needs.
Give and receive bedside shift reports, involve families as appropriate, and provide accurate reports to support continuity of care.
Delegate tasks as needed according to coworkers’ experience and abilities and patient acuity.
Maintain a safe patient and work environment and promptly remove used or soiled equipment and linen to appropriate locations.
Report patient safety and hazard concerns immediately and incorporate organizational and national quality and safety goals.
Document charges and supplies used and support cost containment.
Clock in and out according to policy and obtain approval before working overtime, including incremental overtime.
Document patient and unit records in accordance with health system standards.
Maintain required Texas RN licensure, certifications, competencies, and professional credentials.
Assist with orientation of new employees and floated staff as assigned.
Attend mandatory in-services and workshops, town halls, and at least 75% of unit meetings each year; keep up with communications and developments in nursing and medicine.
Escalate life-threatening patient changes to appropriate providers and document physician responses.
Apply the nursing process to meet patients’ and families’ clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs, following Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives.
Build caring relationships with patients, families, and colleagues; perform hourly rounding and bedside shift report, update patient communication boards, and provide service recovery as needed.