RN Weekend PACU
About The Position
The Registered Nurse provides compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to support patients’ well-being and recovery. The role involves assessing patients, performing skilled procedures, implementing and documenting care plans, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes. The nurse works in a fast-paced environment and applies critical thinking, sound judgment, and a patient-first approach. The position includes admission and ongoing assessment; planning and documenting care, patient and family teaching, and safe transitions and discharge; preparing patients for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies; implementing patient safety practices and protocols; reassessing patients after interventions; and communicating changes in condition and continuity-of-care information to physicians, charge nurses, team leaders, and other shifts. Care addresses patients’ physical, psychological, and spiritual needs. St. Luke’s Health - The Woodlands Hospital is a 245-bed facility serving North Harris and Montgomery counties. Its clinical services include cardiovascular care, diagnostic imaging, women’s services, neurosciences, pediatric care, surgery, pathology, pulmonary services, and sleep disorder services.
Requirements
- Associate degree in nursing.
- One year of RN experience upon hire.
- Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meeting the experience requirements upon hire.
- Texas Registered Nurse licensure upon hire.
- Basic Life Support (CPR) certification within 14 days.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification within 6 months.
Responsibilities
- Conduct admission and ongoing assessments of patients’ conditions and provide nursing care addressing physical, psychological, and spiritual needs.
- Notify the doctor of assessment changes requiring attention.
- Design, direct, evaluate, and document the plan of care, patient and family teaching, and transition-of-care and discharge plans.
- Coordinate with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs.
- Formulate individualized plans of care and daily goals.
- Prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies to help reduce anxiety.
- 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 consult 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 reports using Bedside Shift Report, including family participation, and provide an accurate, comprehensive report to the oncoming shift.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
