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About The Position
The Registered Nurse (RN) delivers compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to support patients’ well-being and recovery. The role involves assessing patients, performing skilled procedures, implementing care plans, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal patient outcomes. Success requires strong assessment and critical-thinking skills, a patient-first mindset, a sense of urgency, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment. The RN conducts admission and ongoing assessments and provides care for patients’ physical, psychological, and spiritual needs. The RN develops, directs, evaluates, and documents individualized plans of care, patient and family teaching, and safe transitions and discharge plans. The position prepares patients for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies; implements patient safety protocols; monitors and reports significant changes; reassesses patients following interventions; and adjusts care as patient needs change. The RN gives and receives bedside shift reports, supports continuity of care, delegates tasks as appropriate, and maintains a safe patient-care and work environment. The facility, St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center, provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services and has 53 medical/surgical beds, eight ICU beds, and three endoscopy rooms.
Requirements
- Associate degree in Nursing.
- One year of RN experience.
- Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations, or meeting experience requirements upon hire.
- Texas Registered Nurse license upon hire.
- Basic Life Support (CPR) certification within 14 days.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Nursing degree.
Responsibilities
- Conduct admission and ongoing assessments of patients’ conditions and notify physicians of changes requiring attention.
- Provide nursing care that addresses patients’ physical, psychological, and spiritual needs.
- Design, direct, evaluate, and document individualized plans of care, patient and family teaching, and safe transition and discharge plans.
- Collaborate with other clinical disciplines to address specialized patient-care and discharge needs.
- Prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies.
- Report significant changes in patients’ conditions to the Charge Nurse/Team Leader and/or physician.
- Implement patient-safety initiatives and protocols, including medication-safety practices, physician orders, and consult notifications.
- Reassess patients at appropriate intervals after interventions, notify physicians as necessary, and adjust care to meet changing needs.
- Give and receive bedside shift reports, including family participation, and provide accurate reports to support continuity of care.
- Delegate tasks as appropriate based on coworkers’ experience and abilities and patients’ acuity.
- Maintain a safe patient-care and work environment; promptly remove used or soiled equipment and linen to appropriate locations.
- Incorporate national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction, and immediately report safety or hazard concerns.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
