Registered Nurse RN - Emergency Room ER

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Counseling services

Paid time off

401(k) match

Tuition assistance

Family building benefits

Job summary

HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast in Pasadena, Texas, is seeking a Registered Nurse to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care in collaboration with the care team. You will follow nursing models such as Assess, Perform, Teach, and Manage, and advocate for patients and families to ensure outstanding outcomes.

You will provide comprehensive care, document timely in the patient record, and educate patients and families about conditions, treatment plans, and self-management strategies.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Current BLS, ACLS, and PALS issued from American Heart Association required
• TNCC within 6 months of hire date
• 1 year of clinical ER experience as a licensed RN in hospital setting

Responsibilities

• Assesses patient pain regularly to promote effective pain management and reassess after intervention.
• Performs procedures, monitoring, or other functions as ordered by the medical provider; documents care in the medical record.
• Responds promptly to patient requests and anticipates needs to provide exceptional care.
• Teaches patients/families/caregivers about medical condition, status, treatment, medications, side effects, and follow-up; translates complex medical terminology.
• Instructs on non-medicinal follow-up measures, such as diet, exercise, disease prevention, and self-management.

Skills

Pain management

Patient education

Communication

Clinical assessment

Education

Diploma/Associates/Bachelor Nursing program

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred

Job description

Work Schedule:3 days per week, 7a-7p/Rotating Weekends

Job Summary and Qualifications

As a Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, patient-centered care in line with the requirements of the department and the standards of practice for the relevant state and specialty. Collaborating with medical providers and the care team, you will provide personalized, comprehensive, and compassionate care, following established nursing models such as "Assess, Perform, Teach, and Manage." You will also act as an advocate for patients, families, and caregivers, embodying the organizations vision, mission, and values to ensure an outstanding patient experience and positive clinical outcomes.

What you will do in this role:

• Assesses patient pain regularly to promote effective pain management, including reassessments after appropriate intervention.
• Performs procedures, monitoring, or other functions as ordered by the medical provider(s). Documents the administration of care in the patient medical record in a timely and thorough manner.
• Performs exceptional care by responding promptly to patient requests. Strives to anticipate patient needs and resolve them proactively.
• Teaches patients/families/caregivers about patient medical condition, patient status, treatment plan, medications and possible side effects, and follow-up measures. Translates complex medical terminology to ensure complete understanding.
• Teaches patients/families/caregivers about any non-medicinal follow-up measures, such as healthy diet and exercise, disease prevention, and/or other lifestyle changes. Prepares patients and families/caregivers for future self-management.

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, ACLS, and PALS issued from American Heart Association required
• TNCC within 6 months of hire date
• 1 year of clinical ER experience as a licensed RN in hospital setting required.

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 benefitsfor medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from workprograms 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

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it." - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.