Emergency Room Nurse

CommonSpirit Health; Caldwell (TX); Vor Ort; USD 42.000 - 64.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

St. Luke's Health - Memorial Lufkin, part of CommonSpirit Health, is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to deliver compassionate, high-quality care in a busy East Texas hospital.

You will perform patient assessments, develop and implement care plans, administer treatments, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team. Accurate reporting and family involvement are essential, with a strong focus on safety and positive outcomes.

Qualifikationen

• Associates Degree in Nursing required at hire.
• At least 1 year RN experience.
• TX RN license required at hire.
• BLS/CPR within 14 days.
• ACLS within 6 months.
• PALS within 6 months.
• TNCC within 12 months.

Aufgaben

• Perform comprehensive nursing assessments and care planning.
• Implement care plans and administer treatments and medications.
• Report significant changes to physician and team.
• Provide bedside shift reports with family involvement.
• Ensure patient safety and high-quality care.

Kenntnisse

Assessment

Critical thinking

Patient-centered care

Team collaboration

Ausbildung

Associates Degree in Nursing

Tools

CPR certification

ACLS certification

PALS certification

TNCC

Jobbeschreibung

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'll 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.

• ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES


• 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 patient's 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

Job Requirements

• Associates Degree Of Nursing, upon hire or


• At least one (1) year of RN experience and


• Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire


• Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire and


• Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days and


• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 - months and


• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 - months and


• Trauma Nurse Core Course, within 12 - months

Where You'll Work

St. Luke's Health - Memorial Lufkin is a 279 bed facility and member of CommonSpirit Health, a national nonprofit health system. Serving East Texas, St. Luke's Health-Memorial Lufkin provides more than a quarter of a million patient services annually and contributes millions of dollars in local charity care and community support. We're the area's first Joint Commission Certified Primary Stroke Center, with board-certified neurologists and neurosurgeons offering full-spectrum stroke care. Nationally recognized as a HealthCare Center of Excellence, St. Luke's Health-Memorial Lufkin offers compassionate, comprehensive health care, including off-campus rehab and outpatient facilities and services. In addition to its large emergency department, there are 32 private rooms, dedicated imaging and OBGYN, wound care, infusion and lab services.

Pay Range

$30.70 - $46.82 /hour