RN ICU

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 will collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you must 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 support patient recovery and fuel your own career advancement.

• Assessment:
  Conduct admission and ongoing assessment of patients’ conditions; provide nursing care to meet physical, psychological, and spiritual needs; notify the doctor of changes requiring attention.
• Planning:
  Design, direct, evaluate, and document the plan of care, patient/family teaching, and transition of care plan to include a safe appropriate level of care discharge. Work with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs. Formulate a plan of care and daily goals that consider the individualized needs of the patient.
• Implementation:
  Prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies to reduce patient anxiety. Know patients' conditions and report significant changes to the Charge Nurse/Team Leader, and/or physician. Implement patient safety initiatives and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, and consult notifications.
• Evaluation:
  Reassess patients at appropriate intervals following interventions; notify the physician as necessary to modify interventions; adjust nursing care to meet patients' emerging and changing needs.
• Report
  
  Skills:
  
  Give and receive reports using Bedside Shift Report, including family participation; provide an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to establish continuity of patient care.

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (NS), with a 24‑month grace period, and one year of RN experience.
• Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations, or meets experience requirements upon hire.
• Registered Nurse license in Texas, to be obtained upon hire.
• Basic Life Support – CPR certification within 14 days of hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification within 6 months of hire.

The Woodlands Hospital is a primary and secondary care hospital serving North Harris and Montgomery counties. Clinical services include cardiovascular services, diagnostic imaging, women’s services (digital mammography and bone density studies), neurosciences, pediatric care (newborn and Level II nurseries), surgery, pathology and pulmonary services, and sleep disorders. Clinical affiliations include The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Radiation Treatment Center and Texas Children’s Hospital.

$35.45 – $55.36 per hour