RN ED

CommonSpirit Health; Sugar Land (TX); On-site; USD 48,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's Health–Sugar Land Hospital in Sugar Land, TX, seeks an RN to deliver compassionate, high-quality care across the patient care continuum.

You will perform assessments, implement care plans, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support recovery. The role emphasizes safety, documentation, and ERD compliance, with opportunities for growth in a fast-paced, patient-centered environment that values excellence and compassionate service.

Qualifications

• Associate degree in nursing with Texas RN licensure.
• CPR, ACLS and PALS or equivalent certifications.
• 1+ year of RN experience in clinical care.
• Competent in applying nursing process within ERD guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients on admission and during stay, plan and document care.
• Provide nursing care and communicate with physicians and team.
• Deliver bedside shift reports and coordinate with staff for continuity.
• Ensure patient safety, medication safety, and accurate documentation.
• Maintain licenses, certifications, and participate in mandatory trainings.

Skills

Assessment

Critical thinking

Teamwork

Documentation

Education

Associate's Of Science Nursing

Basic Life Support - CPR

Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Trauma Nurse Core Course

Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses

Texas RN license

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Assessment: Does admission and ongoing assessment of patient’s condition. Provides nursing care to meet the patient’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs. Notifies doctor of changes in assessment that require attention. Planning: Designs, directs, evaluates, and documents the plan of care, patient/family teaching and the transition of care plan to include a safe appropriate level of care discharge. Works with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs. Formulates a plan of care and daily goals that takes into consideration the individualized needs of the patient. Implementation: Prepares patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety. Knows patients' conditions and reports significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader, and/or physician. Implements patient safety initiative and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, consult notifications. Evaluation: Reassesses patients at appropriate intervals following interventions. Notifies physician as necessary to modify interventions. Adjusts nursing care to meet patient's emerging and changing needs.
• Report Skills: Gives and receives report using Bedside Shift Report including family participation. Provides an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care. Receives report from off-going shift and delegates tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworker's experience, abilities and the patient's acuity.
• Environment & Patient Safety: Maintains patient and work environment to maximize safe working space. Promptly removes all used and soiled equipment, linen, etc. to appropriate location. Incorporates national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety and satisfaction. Reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately. Supplies: Maintains accurate documentation of charges and supplies used to provide patient care through cost containment measures. Time Management: Clocks in and out appropriately according to policy to ensure work is stated and completed on time. Obtains Director/designees/House Supervisor approval before working overtime, including incremental overtime.
• Documentation: Consistently documents in the patient and unit records according to written health system standards of care in order to meet legal and quality patient care requirements. License and Competency: Maintains RN license to practice in the State of Texas including multi-state licensure requirements. Takes responsibility for meeting competency requirements. Assists with the orientation of new employees and floated staff as requested and assigned. Professional Responsibility: Maintains all professional licenses, certifications, and annual competencies prior to deadline. Attends mandatory in-services, workshops, town halls, and 75% of all unit meetings per year. Stays up-to-date on communication, including emails and current journals to keep abreast of new developments in the medical and nursing fields.
• Patient Care: Notifies and escalates concerns to appropriate providers of life-threatening changes and notes physician response. Effectively applies the nursing process within the framework of the organization’s professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of the patient and family following the Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives (ERD).
• Patient Experience: Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues. Performs hourly rounding and bedside shift report, updating the patient communication board and providing service recovery as needed.

Job Requirements

• Associate's Of Science Nursing and
• At least one (1) year of RN experience, and
• Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire
• Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 days and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 months and
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 months
• Trauma Nurse Core Course, within 12 months or
• Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses, within 12 months

Where You'll Work

St. Luke's Health–Sugar Land Hospital is a 100 bed facility serving residents of Fort Bend County and Southwest Houston. Our Family Birthing Center provides exceptional care in a spa-like setting, creating a VIP (Very Important Pregnancy) experience for growing families. Since opening in 2008, our dedicated team of physicians, nurses and support staff has proudly delivered expert, compassionate care to our community. Our services range from heart care and neuroscience to robotic surgery.

Pay Range

$35.45 - $55.36 /hour