Registered Nurse RN - Rapid Response RRT

HCA Healthcare; Pasadena (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support and counseling

Paid time off and family leave

401(k) with match

Job summary

HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast in Pasadena, TX seeks a Rapid Response Team RN to stabilize deteriorating patients, prevent cardiopulmonary arrests, and escalate care under high autonomy. You will collaborate with intensivists and emergency physicians in a Level III trauma center setting.

The role requires ER/ICU RN experience, current TX license, BLS/ACLS, NIHSS, and the ability to work 7p-7a across rotating weekends in a 3-shift weekly pattern.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing is required; BSN preferred.
• Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License; must obtain Texas RN license within 90 days if on compact.
• Current BLS and ACLS Certification are required.
• NIHSS Stroke Scale Certification required for this role.
• PALS preferred; required after six months in position.
• CCRN/CNRN/CEN preferred, required after six months in position.
• Minimum 2 years ER or ICU experience as a licensed RN.

Responsibilities

• Respond to all RRTs, Code Blue, and Code Neuro.
• Communicate daily with the charge nurse to identify high risk patients.
• Round on Women and Children Services, PACU, and ED holding every two hours to address MEWS scores.
• Assess all at-risk patients as MEWS scores increase.
• Monitor surgery schedule and post-op at-risk patients.
• Facilitate debriefings of post codes.
• Enter RRT data and create monthly reports using Excel.
• Lead RRT/Code Blue committees and coordinate care.
• Follow up 24 hours post RRT/Code Blue with documentation and reviews.

Skills

ER/ICU experience

BLS certification

ACLS certification

NIHSS certification

PALS after 6 months

CCRN/CNRN/CEN after 6 months

BSN preferred

TX RN license or compact

Nursing graduate

Education

BSN preferred or higher

TX RN license or Multi-State Compact

Job description

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

Advance your critical care nursing career by joining the elite, high-autonomy mobile intervention team at HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, an award-winning facility ranked by Healthgrades among America’s 250 Best Hospitals™ and a consecutive recipient of the Patient Safety Excellence Award™. As a Rapid Response Team (RRT) Registered Nurse (RN), you will serve as a frontline clinical expert, responding to urgent alerts hospital-wide to stabilize deteriorating patients, prevent cardiopulmonary arrests, and facilitate immediate escalations of care. You will operate at the absolute pinnacle of your license, utilizing advanced clinical assessment skills and standing protocols in a facility recognized with the Healthgrades Critical Care Excellence Award™. Choosing a career within this vital service line means collaborating with intensivists and emergency providers in a high-performing environment that holds a provisional adult Level III Trauma Center status, national certification as a Primary Stroke Center, and stands as the only hospital in Pasadena recognized by the American College of Cardiology as an accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI and Resuscitation. Your life-saving interventions will be backed by a system highly honored by the American Heart Association with the Coronary Artery Disease Gold Plus Receiving and NSTEMI Gold performance awards, all within a parent network celebrated by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies®

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 organization's vision, mission, and values to ensure an outstanding patient experience and positive clinical outcomes.

What You Will Do In Your Role:

• Responds to all RRTs (Rapid Response calls), Code Blue, and Code Neuro.

• Communicates daily with each charge nurse to identify high risk patients

• Round on departments to include Women and Children Services, PACU, and ED holding every two hours to address MEWS scores and address questions and/or concerns of staff.

• Assess all “at risk” patients as identified by MEWS score increases

• Monitors surgery schedule and rounds on any “at risk” post op patients

• Facilitates debriefings of post codes

• Facilitate StaRN learning and serve as resource

• Enters RRT data and creates monthly reports using excel, reports data to appropriate committees

• Completes 24 hours post RRT/Code Blue follow up and documentation.

• Leads and facilitates RRT/Code Blue Committee

• Refers patient complaints to appropriate Unit Managers/Directors.

• Utilizes chain of command to ensure appropriate action is taken

• Facilitates a staff satisfaction feedback system for RRT

What qualifications you will need:

• Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing is required. BSN is 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 and ACLS Certification are required.

• NIHSS Stroke Scale Certification required.

• PALS preferred; required after six months completion in position.

• CCRN, CNRN, and/or CEN preferred, required after six months completion in position.

• 2-years of clinical ER or ICU experience as a licensed RN 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 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

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/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.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder