Registered Nurse / RN - PCU - Full Time, Nights

Texas Health Resources•Bedford, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Registered Nurse (RN) for the Progressive Care Unit (PCU) at Texas Health HEB. This is a full-time position working nights (7:00 PM - 7:00 AM). The role is in a team-based environment with a strong workplace culture and excellent benefits. The hospital, Texas Health HEB, is a 252-bed acute-care facility serving the DFW mid-cities area since 1973, specializing in various services including women's services, perioperative services, heart and vascular care, and emergency medicine. It is ANCC Magnet Designated and a Primary Stroke Center.

Requirements

Nursing Diploma OR Associate's Degree in Nursing OR Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
1 year experience as a Registered Nurse or completion of an RN residency program
RN - Registered Nurse upon hire
BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly
ACLS – Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 90 days
NIHSS – National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Certification within 30 days
CPI – Crisis Prevention Training maintained annually within 60 days

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree Nursing
1 year of previous PCU experience

Responsibilities

Basic Human Needs – Responds to other’s priorities regarding safety, physical, psychological, and social needs.
Human Respect – Honors worth of human through unconditional acceptance.
Appreciation of Unique Meanings – Concerned with understanding others frame of reference.
Affiliation Needs – Engages family/caregivers in health care situations.
Mutual Problem Solving – Professional behaviors that help patients and families understand how to learn about their health and illness; involves a reciprocal, shared approach with resulting decisions acceptable to involved patients.
Attentive Reassurance – Listens and concentrates on other. Is reliable and attentive.
Encouraging Manner – The professional nurse communicates an attitude that is supportive, open, positive and tolerant.
Healing Environment – The professional nurse creates settings that provide privacy, safety, confidentiality and tranquility.
Teamwork – “Individuals caring for individuals, together”