Registered Nurse (RN) - Vascular Access Team

Texas Children's; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children's Hospital is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to join the Vascular Access Team. The role covers care of pediatric and adult patients needing difficult venous access, central venous catheters, PICC, and midline management, ensuring high-quality patient care with minimal complications.

Education will extend to patients, families, and staff on peripheral and central line care. Candidates should have a nursing degree, TX BON eligibility, and at least 9 months of nursing experience,

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in nursing, associate's degree, or technical diploma with acceptance or current enrollment in a BSN program; TX Board of Nursing eligibility required.
• Experience: at least 9 months nursing experience; CPR-BLS required.
• Respiratory fit testing required for all successful candidates.

Responsibilities

• Performs and documents assessment of patient/family needs (biophysical, psychosocial, developmental, culture, spiritual, environmental).
• Analyzes situations, anticipates problems, and detects changes in patient status.
• Re-prioritizes and updates plan of care and communicates changes to health care team; documents in medical record.
• Participates in interdisciplinary rounds and care conferences; documents in medical record.
• Assists patients/family in implementing their role in the plan of care as appropriate.
• Assess learning needs, capabilities, preferences, and readiness to learn prior to teaching.
• Administers and documents medications and treatments in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates willingness to acquire new knowledge and skills to improve performance.
• Participate in unit performance improvement initiatives.

Skills

Critical care experience

Pediatric experience

Education

Nursing degree (BSN/ ADN/ Technical diploma) with TX BON eligibility

Job description

At Texas Children's Hospital, our mission starts with our people. Guided by our HEART values-Humility, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Trust-we strive to create a workplace where teammates feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work every day.

We are searching for a Registered Nurse (RN) to work with our Vascular Access Team - someone to perform all tasks necessary to manage the care of pediatric and adult patients needing difficult venous access, care of the central venous catheter, PICC, and midline ensuring quality patient care while minimizing related complications. The vascular access nurse will also provide education to patients, families, medical, and nursing staff in the care of peripheral and central lines. Job duties are performed in a manner that is developmentally age appropriate for the patients served including the neonate, infant, child, adolescent, and adult.

Think you've got what it takes? (Critical care experience)

• Performs and documents assessment of the patient/family including biophysical, psychosocial, developmental (age-appropriate), culture, spiritual, and environmental needs in an organized and systematic manner
• Analyzes situations, anticipates potential problems, and detects changes in patient status.
• Re-prioritizes and updates plan of care based on new information and changes to the patient's condition; communicates this information to other health care team members and documents in the medical record.
• Participates in interdisciplinary rounds and/or patient care conferences and documents in the medical record.
• Assists patients/family in implementing their role in the plan of care as appropriate.
• Assess patient family learning needs capabilities, preferences, and readiness to learn prior to teaching.
• Demonstrates positive and effective interpersonal skills when dealing with patients/families, visitors, peers, and other health care team members.
• Administers and documents medications and treatments in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates willingness and ability to acquire new knowledge and utilize new skills needed to improve individual, team, and organizational performance.
• Participate in unit performance improvement initiatives

• Bachelor's degree in nursing, associate's degree, or technical diploma in nursing with acceptance or current enrollment in a BSN program and signed agreement or an associate's degree in a related field accepted by the Texas Board of Nursing for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining an RN license required or must be currently enrolled in a nursing bridge program working toward an MSN with a verified BSN-equivalency or a signed agreement.
• 9 months experience in nursing (minimum)
• RN License by Texas Board of Nursing or Nurse License Compact
• CPR - Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association
• Pediatric experience preferred
• Critical Care experience preferred

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards