Registered Nurse (RN) - L&D

Tenet Healthcare; Brownsville (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Tenet Healthcare is seeking an RN to deliver direct patient care across shifts, supervise staff, and ensure safe, high-quality nursing services. The role emphasizes coordination of care within established safety and infection-control standards.

Responsibilities include medication administration, patient collaboration, and readiness to respond to hospital emergency codes. Licensure, BLS, and applicable ACLS/PALS/NRP are required or policy-driven; a nursing degree is required, with a

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program and eligible for licensure.
• Required: current license to practice nursing; BLS; ACLS/PALS/NRP as applicable by policy.
• Preferred: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Nursing.
• Experience: recent acute care experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical care to assigned patients per shift.
• Supervise staff and delegate appropriate nursing tasks.
• administer medications safely per hospital policy and coordinate with care teams.
• Be familiar with HICS roles and hospital emergency codes and respond accordingly.

Skills

Direct patient care

Staff supervision

Safety & infection control

Education

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing

Bachelor's or Master's in Nursing (preferred)

Tools

HICS

Job description

This position may qualify for a sign-on bonus.

This role provides direct clinical patient care. The role will assume responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing direct clinical care to assigned patients on a per shift basis, and unit level. The role is responsible for supervision of staff to which appropriate care is delegated. The role is accountable to support CNO to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care.

The RN provides high-quality, safe, cost-effective, total nursing care to all patients. The RN assumes responsibility for overall coordination and integration of patient care based on the nursing process. The RN directs care according to established standards of safety, risk management, QI, and Infection Control, with the goal being to discharge the patient with an optimum level of care provided. Assumes responsibility for coordination and planning of patient care within the prescribed medical regime. Administers all medications safely and in a timely manner per hospital policy. Performs and fulfills all HICS (hospital incident command system) responsibilities, assignments, tasks, and roles as directed and needed by the facility in times of emergency and/or disaster. Responsible for knowing the Hospital's emergency codes, including the purpose and appropriate action for each, and adheres to the Hospital policies and procedures for each emergency code.

Education

• Required: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Preferred: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Nursing

Experience

• Preferred: Recent acute care experience.

Certifications

• Required: Currently licensed, certified, or registered to practice profession as required by law, regulation in state of practice or policy; AHA BLS, and if applicable by corporate policy for unit of hire, AHA ACLS and/or PALS and/or NRP.
• INTERMEDIATE FETAL
• BASIC FETAL