Flex Team I RN-ED

St. Luke's Hospital - Vintage • Houston, TX

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About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) on the Float/Flex Team provides compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to patients. The RN performs critical assessments and skilled procedures, implements patient care plans, and collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes. This role calls for strong assessment and critical-thinking skills, a patient-first mindset, urgency, reliability, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment.

The RN uses the nursing process to provide cost-effective, quality-driven, patient-focused care. Responsibilities include collecting relevant patient information; assessing patients, identifying nursing diagnoses and goals, planning interventions, and evaluating outcomes; documenting care according to health system standards; and educating patients and families on topics such as pain management, nutrition, skin integrity, fall prevention, diabetes, disease processes, smoking cessation, and discharge instructions. The RN also supports patient safety, confidentiality, ethical decision-making, cost containment, and appropriate research activities.

Requirements

• Associate of Science in Nursing.
• At least one year of RN experience.
• Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets the experience requirements upon hire.
• Texas Registered Nurse license upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (CPR) certification within 14 days.

Responsibilities

• Use the nursing process to provide cost-effective, quality-driven, patient-focused care.
• Collect relevant social, psychological, developmental, and spiritual information from patients, significant others, and healthcare team members.
• Perform ongoing assessments; formulate nursing diagnoses and goals; plan interventions; and evaluate outcomes.
• Document in patient and unit records according to health system standards and legal and quality requirements.
• Teach and provide information to patients and families on pain management, nutrition, skin integrity, fall prevention, diabetes, disease processes, smoking cessation, and discharge instructions.
• Support patient safety, confidentiality, ethical decision-making, and cost containment in keeping with the goals and values of patients, the hospital, the community, and the nursing profession.
• Use research-supported interventions as appropriate and participate in research activities, identify research opportunities, and collaborate with Outcomes managers and the department.
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes.

What This Job Offers

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