Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a Registered Nurse (RN) on our Float/Flex Team, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients well-being and recovery while presenting a positive attitude and being reliable. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. Youll 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 not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
Responsibilities:
• Utilizes the nursing process to ensure appropriate patient care is provided in a cost-effective, quality-driven, and patient-focused manner. • Collects pertinent social, psychological, developmental, and spiritual data from the patient, significant others, and other healthcare team members. • Performs ongoing assessment, formulates nursing diagnosis and goals, plans appropriate interventions, and evaluates the outcome of the interventions. • Consistently documents in the patient and unit records according to written health system standards of care in order to meet legal and quality patient care requirements. • Provides appropriate teaching and information to patients and families, including information on Pain Management, Nutrition, Skin Integrity, Fall prevention, Diabetes, Disease Process, Smoking Cessation, and Discharge instructions. • Demonstrates commitment to the goals and values of the patient, Hospital, community, and nursing profession through cost containment measures, maintaining confidentiality, appropriate ethical decision-making, and ensuring patient safety. • Uses interventions substantiated by research as appropriate in the patient population, participates in research activities, identifies opportunities for research, and collaborates with the Outcomes managers and department.
Job Requirements:
• Associate of Nursing and at least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire • Associate of Nursing at least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire • Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire • Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 days • Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 months • Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire • Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 days • Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 months • Preferred: Bachelors of Nursing, upon hire • Preferred: Bachelors of Nursing, upon hire
Where Youll Work:
St. Lukes Health - Memorial Lufkin is dedicated to enhancing your health and well-being. Our facility is a collaboration between St. Lukes Health and a team of specialized physicians-focused on general and interventional cardiology, sports medicine, and orthopedics, including total joint replacement and spine care. Your time at work should be fulfilling. Rewarding. Inspiring. Thats what youll find when you join one of our non-profit CHI facilities across the nation. Youll find challenging, rewarding work every day alongside people who have as much compassion as you. Join us and together well create healthier, stronger communities.
What sets us apart from other healthcare organizations? How much time do you have? In short, it all starts with our current employees. They believe in living our mission to provide compassion to everyone. We, in turn, believe that growing and supporting our people allows us to deliver a higher degree of quality care to our patients. CHI advocates for all who live in the communities we serve, especially the most vulnerable. Choose an organization who will champion your talents and nurture your career. Choose CHI!