Float Pool Nurse Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Graduate from a Licensed Vocational Nurse program.
• Hold a Texas vocational nurse license or permit.
• Current BLS certification.
• No experience required.

Nice To Haves

• Two years of outpatient or acute care experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct nursing care to assigned patients.
• Participate in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care.
• Perform admission, discharge, and transfer procedures.
• Use the nursing plan of care in daily assignments; review it and, under supervision, modify it.
• Observe and record patients’ signs, symptoms, behaviors, and physiological status; present proposed revisions to interventions and desired outcomes.
• Deliver designated nursing interventions consistent with the medical plan of care.
• Notify appropriate nursing and medical staff of changes in patient status; recognize care priorities, multidisciplinary treatment plans, and potential patient-care crises.
• Follow physician orders in delivering nursing care and execute written orders for assigned patients.
• Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality of information and records.
• Safely and properly administer medications and treatments.
• Assemble equipment and supplies for diagnostic or treatment procedures in the specialty service area; perform or assist with procedures and treatments.
• Follow infection-control and isolation procedures and aseptic techniques.
• Document nursing care in assigned patient records.
• Adhere to department internal controls.
• Perform related duties as required.
• Float to cover ambulatory network clinics and travel to locations including Orange, Katy, and Conroe on occasion.