CCU RN
CHI, Houston, TX, United States
Job Summary And Responsibilities
As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high‑quality care that truly impacts our patients' well‑being and recovery.
Every day you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You will collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.
To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient‑first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast‑paced environment will support patient recovery and fuel your own career advancement.
Essential Key Job Responsibilities
Assessment: Perform admission and ongoing assessment of patient’s condition, provide nursing care to meet physical, psychological and spiritual needs, and notify the doctor of changes requiring attention.
Planning: Design, direct, evaluate and document the plan of care, patient/family teaching and the transition of care plan to include a safe and appropriate level of discharge. Work with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs and formulate a plan of care and daily goals that consider the individualized needs of patients.
Implementation: Prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies to reduce patient anxiety. Know patient conditions and report significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader or physician. Implement patient safety initiatives and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, and consult notifications.
Evaluation: Reassess patients at appropriate intervals following interventions, notify physicians as necessary to modify interventions, and adjust nursing care to meet patients’ emerging and changing needs.
Report Skills: Give and receive bedside shift reports including family participation, and provide an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to establish continuity of care.
Job Requirements
Bachelor of Science in Nursing and at least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire.
Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meeting experience requirements upon hire.
Registered Nurse: TX license, upon hire.
Basic Life Support – CPR, within 14 days of hire.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 months of hire.
Where You'll Work
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is a 1,045‑bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, it is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence, with breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally accredited and NCI‑designated comprehensive cancer center. The new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience, modeled on evidence‑based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians, and represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading‑edge patient care, research, and education.
Pay Range
$35.45 - $55.36 per hour
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As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high‑quality care that truly impacts our patients' well‑being and recovery.
Every day you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You will collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.
To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient‑first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast‑paced environment will support patient recovery and fuel your own career advancement.
Essential Key Job Responsibilities
Assessment: Perform admission and ongoing assessment of patient’s condition, provide nursing care to meet physical, psychological and spiritual needs, and notify the doctor of changes requiring attention.
Planning: Design, direct, evaluate and document the plan of care, patient/family teaching and the transition of care plan to include a safe and appropriate level of discharge. Work with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs and formulate a plan of care and daily goals that consider the individualized needs of patients.
Implementation: Prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies to reduce patient anxiety. Know patient conditions and report significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader or physician. Implement patient safety initiatives and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, and consult notifications.
Evaluation: Reassess patients at appropriate intervals following interventions, notify physicians as necessary to modify interventions, and adjust nursing care to meet patients’ emerging and changing needs.
Report Skills: Give and receive bedside shift reports including family participation, and provide an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to establish continuity of care.
Job Requirements
Bachelor of Science in Nursing and at least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire.
Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meeting experience requirements upon hire.
Registered Nurse: TX license, upon hire.
Basic Life Support – CPR, within 14 days of hire.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 months of hire.
Where You'll Work
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is a 1,045‑bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, it is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence, with breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally accredited and NCI‑designated comprehensive cancer center. The new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience, modeled on evidence‑based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians, and represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading‑edge patient care, research, and education.
Pay Range
$35.45 - $55.36 per hour
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