Registered Nurse (RN) - Virtual Care Network

Texas Children's Hospital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children’s Hospital is seeking experienced nurses for its Virtual Care Network in Houston. The role supports bedside teams with admission education, discharge planning, and technology-enabled care to expand capacity for direct patient care.

This onsite position at the Meyer Building emphasizes strong communication, education, and collaboration with diverse teams to deliver family-centered care using EPIC and digital platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing or enrollment in BSN program
• Current Texas nursing license or active NCLEX/Compact licensure required
• Current BLS certification from American Heart Association
• 9 months of professional nursing experience

Responsibilities

• Performs and documents comprehensive patient/family assessments
• Analyses patient status and anticipates changes in condition
• Updates care plan based on new information and communicates with the healthcare team
• Participates in rounds and care conferences
• Assists patient/family in implementing the plan of care
• Assess patient/family learning needs and readiness to learn
• Administers and documents medications and treatments timely
• Maintains willing to acquire new knowledge and skills
• Participates in unit-based improvement initiatives

Skills

Communication

Critical thinking

Patient education

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing

Current Texas nursing licensure

Current BLS certification

Tools

EPIC

Job description

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.

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.

Texas Children’s Virtual Care Network is seeking experienced, innovative nurses who are passionate about patient- and family-centered care and excited to help transform how nursing care is delivered. Virtual Nurses partner with bedside nurses to provide admission support, patient and family education, discharge readiness, and discharge teaching through technology-enabled care model. This role is ideal for nurses who are strong communicators, educators, collaborators, and critical thinkers and who are comfortable using technology to support patients, families, and bedside care teams. As a Virtual Nurse, you remain an essential part of the nursing care team while helping create additional capacity for bedside nurses to focus on direct patient care.

This position is onsite at our Meyer Building, and schedule will be 1230p-9pm (8hr shifts that will including rotating individual weekend shifts)

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing or other degree in nursing with acceptance or current enrollment in a BSN program and signed agreement
• Current licensure with the Board of Nursing for the State of Texas or Nurse Licensure Compact
• Current BLS certification from the American Heart Association
• 9 months of professional nursing experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 2yrs of nursing experience
• Acute Care experience and ability to cross-train to cover NICU and Mother/ Baby
• Proficiency with EPIC (or comparable electronic health record systems)
• Ability to conduct virtual patient intakes and provide patient education via phone or digital platforms
• Strong clinical judgment and critical-thinking skills
• Excellent communication and patient/family education skills
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams
• Comfortable with technology and virtual care delivery
• Strong organization and time-management skills
• Adaptable and innovative, with the ability to navigate changing workflows
• Commitment to patient- and family-centered care

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.

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years. Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children ’ s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children ’ s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children ’ s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children ’ s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children ’ s Health Plan, the nation ’ s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children ’ s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children ’ s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children ’ s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.