Emergency Room Nurse

St Luke’s Health Memorial Hospital; Lufkin (TX); On-site; USD 68,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's Health-Memorial Livingston is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) on our Float/Flex Team to deliver compassionate, high-quality care and support patient recovery in a fast-paced environment.

You'll perform assessments, execute skilled procedures, document care, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to ensure positive outcomes, with emphasis on patient-centered care and education for patients and families.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required
• Minimum 1 year RN experience
• CPR certification
• Strong assessment and critical thinking skills

Responsibilities

• Utilizes the nursing process to provide cost-effective, patient-focused care.
• Performs ongoing assessments, establishes nursing diagnoses and plans interventions.
• Documents in patient records per health system standards.
• Provides patient and family education on pain, nutrition, skin integrity, fall prevention, and discharge instructions.
• Maintains patient safety and confidentiality, supports ethical decision-making.

Job description

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. 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.

• 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 health care team members.


• Performs as 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

Required

• Bachelors Degree Of Science Nursing and At least one (1) year of RN experience, 24 - months 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

Where You'll Work

St. Luke's Health-Memorial Livingston is a 66-bed facility and member of CommonSpirit Health, a national nonprofit health system. Serving East Texas, St. Luke's Health-Memorial provides more than a quarter of a million patient services annually and contributes millions of dollars in local charity care and community support. This facility delivers more than 60,000 patient services annually—half through its Level IV trauma-designated emergency department. Patients have access to a wide range of services including orthopedic care, women’s health and a state-of-the‑art sleep center. Advanced imaging services include MRI, CT, 3D mammography, 4D ultrasound, cardiac echo and more—all close to home.