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. 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.
Assessment
• Does admission and ongoing assessment of patient's condition. • Provides nursing care to meet the patient's physical, psychological and spiritual needs. • Notifies doctor of changes in assessment that require attention.
Planning
• Designs, directs, evaluates, and documents the plan of care, patient/family teaching and the transition of care plan to include a safe appropriate level of care discharge. • Works with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs. • Formulates a plan of care and daily goals that takes into consideration the individualized needs of the patient.
Implementation
• Prepares patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety. • Knows patients conditions and reports significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader, and/or physician. • Implements patient safety initiative and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, consult notifications.
Evaluation
• Reassesses patients at appropriate intervals following interventions. • Notifies physician as necessary to modify interventions. • Adjusts nursing care to meet patients emerging and changing needs.
Report Skills
• Gives and receives report using Bedside Shift Report including family participation. • Provides an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care. • Receives report from off-going shift and delegates tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworkers experience, abilities and the patients acuity.
Environment & Patient Safety
• Maintains patient and work environment to maximize safe working space. • Promptly removes all used and soiled equipment, linen, etc. to appropriate location. • Incorporates national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety and satisfaction. • Reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.
Job Requirements
To be considered for this role, you must meet the following requirements:
• Associates or Diploma in Nursing • At least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire • Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN) within 2 years from date of hire, upon hire • Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire • Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days
Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in Nursing, upon hire
Where Youll Work
St. Luke's Health-Memorial is a 271 bed non-profit facility providing quality health care to patients and communities in and around [Lufkin / Texas]. We are part of CommonSpirit Health which operates 139 hospitals and more than 1,000 care sites across 21 states, making our services accessible to nearly 1 in 4 U.S. residents.
We offer a competitive salary, $20,000 SIGN ON BONUS for FULL TIME positions for RN candidates with over 1 year of experience, and a comprehensive benefits package, including:
• Health/dental/vision • FSA • Matching retirement plans • Paid vacation • Adoption assistance
If you are committed to social justice, health equity, and prepared to deliver care in new, innovative ways, you belong with us.