Neuro-Angio RN

CommonSpirit Health; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 49,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, part of CommonSpirit Health, seeks a Registered Nurse (RN) to deliver compassionate, high-quality care within a fast-paced hospital setting.

You will perform assessments, plan and implement care, collaborate with an interdisciplinary team, and advocate for patient safety and optimal outcomes. Requires a BSN, Texas RN license, BLS, ACLS within six months, and at least one year of RN experience.

Qualifications

• BSN required upon hire.
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Texas upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification by the American Heart Association upon hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification by the American Heart Association within six months of hire.
• At least one year of RN experience upon hire.

Responsibilities

• Assessment: admission and ongoing assessment of patient condition; provide nursing care addressing physical, psychological, and spiritual needs; notify doctor of changes.
• Planning: design, direct, evaluate, and document the plan of care and discharge planning; collaborate with other disciplines; set daily goals.
• Implementation: prepare patients for treatments and procedures; report significant changes; follow safety protocols; monitor medication safety and orders.
• Evaluation: reassess patients after interventions; notify physician to modify care as needed; adapt to changing patient needs.
• Report Skills: give and receive bedside shift reports with family involvement; ensure continuity of care across shifts.
• Environment & Patient Safety: maintain safe environment; manage equipment and supplies; report safety concerns.
• Supplies: document charges and supplies used for patient care.
• Time Management: clock in/out per policy; obtain approvals for overtime.
• Documentation: record in patient/unit records per standards.
• License and Competency: maintain RN license in Texas; assist with orientation and floated staff as needed.
• Professional Responsibility: maintain licenses/certifications; attend mandatory trainings and meetings; stay updated with literature.
• Patient Care: escalate life-threatening changes and apply nursing process per ERD framework.
• Patient Experience: foster compassionate care; conduct hourly rounding and bedside shift reports; support service recovery.

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN)

Job description

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.

• 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 off-going shift and delegates tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworker's experience, abilities and the patient's 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.

• Supplies: Maintains accurate documentation of charges and supplies used to provide patient care through cost containment measures.

• Time Management: Clocks in and out appropriately according to policy to ensure work is stated and completed on time. Obtains Director/designees/House Supervisor approval before working overtime, including incremental overtime.

• Documentation: 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.

• License and Competency: Maintains RN license to practice in the State of Texas including multi-state licensure requirements. Takes responsibility for meeting competency requirements. Assists with the orientation of new employees and floated staff as requested and assigned.

• Professional Responsibility: Maintains all professional licenses, certifications, and annual competencies prior to deadline. Attends mandatory in-services, workshops, town halls, and 75% of all unit meetings per year. Stays up-to-date on communication, including emails and current journals to keep abreast of new developments in the medical and nursing fields.

• Patient Care: Notifies and escalates concerns to appropriate providers of life-threatening changes and notes physician response. Effectively applies the nursing process within the framework of the organization’s professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of the patient and family following the Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives (ERD).

• Patient Experience: Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues. Performs hourly rounding and bedside shift report, updating the patient communication board and providing service recovery as needed.

Job Requirements

Required:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN), upon hire

• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Texas, upon hire

• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification issued by the American Heart Association, upon hire

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification issued by the American Heart Association, within six (6) months of hire

• At least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is an 1,045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St. Luke's is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience - modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education.

Pay Range

$35.45 - $55.36 /hour

We are an equal opportunity employer.