RN ICU

CommonSpirit Health•The Woodlands, TX

19d

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides compassionate, high-quality, individualized care and supports patients’ well-being and recovery. The role involves assessing patients, performing skilled procedures, implementing and evaluating care plans, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes. The RN works in a fast-paced environment and uses critical thinking, sound assessment skills, urgency, and a patient-first approach. The RN assesses patients on admission and throughout their care, provides for physical, psychological, and spiritual needs, and notifies the physician of assessment changes requiring attention. The RN develops and documents individualized plans of care, daily goals, patient and family education, and safe transition and discharge plans in collaboration with other clinical disciplines. The RN prepares patients for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies; monitors and reports significant changes; and follows patient safety initiatives and protocols, including medication safety, physician orders, and consultation notifications. The RN reassesses patients after interventions, notifies physicians when care changes are needed, and adjusts nursing care to meet changing needs. The role includes giving and receiving bedside shift reports, involving families where appropriate, delegating tasks according to coworkers’ experience and abilities and patient acuity, maintaining a safe patient and work environment, removing used and soiled materials appropriately, supporting quality and patient-safety goals, and promptly reporting safety or hazard concerns.

Requirements

Associate degree in Nursing upon hire, or one year of RN experience within the stated 1–3-year requirement.
Registered Nurse license in Texas upon hire.
Basic Life Support (CPR) within 14 days.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 6 months.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Responsibilities

Perform admission and ongoing assessments of patients’ conditions.
Provide nursing care that addresses patients’ physical, psychological, and spiritual needs.
Notify physicians of assessment changes that require attention.
Design, direct, evaluate, and document individualized plans of care, daily goals, patient and family teaching, and safe transition and discharge plans.
Collaborate with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized care and discharge needs.
Prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies.
Monitor patients’ conditions and report significant changes to the Charge Nurse/Team Leader and/or physician.
Implement patient safety initiatives and protocols, including medication safety practices, physician orders, and consultation notifications.
Reassess patients at appropriate intervals following interventions and notify physicians as necessary to modify interventions.
Adjust nursing care to meet patients’ emerging and changing needs.
Give and receive bedside shift reports, including family participation, and provide accurate, comprehensive 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.
Incorporate national and organizational quality, patient safety, and satisfaction goals.
Immediately report patient safety and hazard concerns.