Float Pool RN - Med Surg Resource

HCA Houston Healthcare; Pasadena (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Tuition and certification assistance

Fertility and family building support

Life insurance and disability

Job summary

HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast in Pasadena, TX is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Float Pool. You will provide professional nursing care across acute inpatient units, including cardiology, neuroscience, telemetry, and post-surgical care.

Your role emphasizes safe patient care, collaboration, and adherence to BON standards. Requirements include Texas RN license, BLS, and 1 year of acute care experience.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited diploma, associate, or baccalaureate degree registered nursing program.
• Current Texas RN license (or Multi-State Compact with 90-day Texas licensure).
• Current BLS issued by American Heart Association required.
• 1 year of clinical experience as an RN in an acute care setting.

Responsibilities

• Deliver professional nursing care for assigned patients across Acute Inpatient Units.
• Perform nursing assessments, care planning, treatment implementation, evaluation, and discharge planning.
• Administer treatments/medications/procedures within scope of practice.
• Coordinate care with interdisciplinary team members and ancillary services.
• Delegate within scope to ensure safe and effective patient care.
• Incorporate AIDET service fundamentals into daily activities.
• Access secure drug storage areas as required for medication management orientation.
• Use critical thinking to analyze clinical data and literature for decision making.
• Advocate for patients to ensure safety and quality of care.

Skills

Clinical Nursing

Acute Care

BLS (American Heart Association)

Education

Associate/Bachelor’s RN program

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred

Job description

Work Schedule: 3 days per week, 7a-7p/Rotating Weekends
As a Registered Nurse Float Pool, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

Job Summary And Qualifications

The Registered Nurse delivers professional nursing care to population-specific patients on the Acute Inpatient Units to include, Acute Care Medicine, Acute Care Telemetry, Acute Care Cardiac, Acute Care Cardiopulmonary, Chest Pain, Neuroscience, Neuro-Stroke, Neuro Spine, Observation, Ortho Surgical Trauma, Post-Surgical. Follows the Board of Nursing’s (BON) Standards of Nursing Practice utilizing the nursing process in care delivery. Maintains accountability for professional decisions and actions within the parameters of their legal scope of practice and in accordance with the federal, state, and local laws; rules and regulations; and policies, procedures and guidelines of Gulf Coast Division (GCD).

What you will do in this role:

• Responsible for delivery of professional nursing care for assigned patients, performs nursing assessments/ care plan/ implementation of treatment/ evaluation of treatment/ and discharge planning.
• Administers treatments/medications/procedures within scope of practice.
• Coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members and ancillary services.
• Responsible for delegation within scope of practice to provide safe and effective care to patient population.
• Integrates behavior standards and AIDET fundamentals of service into all work activities.
• Authorized to access secure drug and biological storage areas when completing a medication management orientation and when necessary to perform assigned duties.
• Provider of Care:
• Use critical thinking approach to analyze clinical data and current literature as a basis for decision making in nursing practice.
• Acts as a patient advocate to implement and direct care to ensure patient safety in the clinical practice environment.

What qualifications you will need:

• Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree registered nursing program.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred.
• Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RN License within 90 days of hire date)
• Current BLS issued from American Heart Association required
• 1 year of clinical experience as a licensed RN in an acute care setting.

Medical Surgical, Med Surg, Med-Surg, Med/Surg, Telemetry, Tele, Med-Tele, Med/Tele, Med Tele, Cardiac, Cardiopulmonary, Chest Pain, Neuroscience, Neuro-Stroke, Neuro Spine, Observation, Ortho Surgical Trauma, Post-Surgical, Post-Op

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

"Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing’s future."
Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC
Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive
HCA Healthcare

HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast is a full-service 340+ bed acute care hospital in Pasadena, Texas. We have been a leader of medical care in Pasadena for more than 50 years. With board-certified physicians, registered nurses and expert technicians, the community has come to rely on us for top-quality, comprehensive and compassionate healthcare. HCA Houston Southeast is the only hospital in Pasadena with both Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Primary PCI and Resuscitation by the American College of Cardiology and full accreditation by The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.