NICU Nurse

CommonSpirit Health; Lufkin (TX); Hybrid; USD 4,271,000 - 6,612,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's Health - Memorial Lufkin, part of CommonSpirit Health, seeks a Registered Nurse to deliver high-quality nursing care in East Texas. The RN will perform assessments, develop and execute care plans, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

The role requires patient-first focus, critical thinking, and a commitment to safety in a fast-paced environment, with opportunities for professional growth and advanced practice.

Qualifications

• Assesses patient condition and ongoing needs.
• Plans and documents care plans and goals.
• Delivers care during treatments and procedures.
• Reassesses and adjusts care based on changes.
• Communicates reports during shift changes.
• Maintains patient safety and clean environment.

Responsibilities

• Assessment: admission and ongoing assessment; notify changes to physician.
• Planning: design and document plan of care and discharge goals.
• Implementation: prepare patients for treatments and report changes.
• Evaluation: reassess and modify care as needed.
• Report Skills: bedside report and handoff to oncoming staff.
• Environment & Patient Safety: maintain safety and cleanliness.

Skills

Assessment

Planning

Implementation

Evaluation

Report skills

Environment safety

Education

Associates Degree in Nursing

RN License TX

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.

*Job Requirements**Required*

• Associates Degree in Nursing and At least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire and
• Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire and
• Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days and
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, within 6 - months and
• Stable Program, within 6 - months

*Preferred*

• Bachelors Of Nursing, upon hire

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