Registered Nurse - Inpatient Surgical Ortho Trauma Unit

Registered Nurse - Inpatient Surgical Ortho Trauma Unit

We are searching for a Part Time Registered Nurse for our Surgical/Ortho/Trauma unit – someone who works well in a fast‑paced setting. 11WT is a 36 bed surgical/orthopedic/trauma unit. The unit consists of 32 general admission beds and 4 designated trauma beds. 11WT receives a wide array of surgical patients from a variety of surgical services.

• Orthopedic Surgery: spinal fusions, bone fractures, osteotomies
• Urology Surgery: ureteral re‑implants, nephrectomies, bladder augmentations
• Plastic Surgery: cleft lip and/or palate repairs, rhinoplasties, brachial plexus repairs

• General Surgery: appendectomies, hernia repairs, pectus repairs, tumor resections
• Orthopedic Surgery: spinal fusions, bone fractures, osteotomies
• Urology Surgery: ureteral re‑implants, nephrectomies, bladder augmentations
• Plastic Surgery: cleft lip and/or palate repairs, rhinoplasties, brachial plexus repairs
• ENT Surgery:
  Tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, PE Tube placement, cochlear implants

The 4 trauma beds are used for patients who have sustained a multisystem or severe injury from some sort of trauma. You may also see minor trauma patients throughout the unit. Some types of trauma seen include motor vehicle accidents, auto‑pedestrian accidents, ATV accidents, gunshot wounds, sports injuries, and child abuse. The nurses who care for these patients in the trauma rooms have received additional training on how to care and manage these types of patients.

The trauma nurse is an expanded role that is offered on 11WT.

Think you’ve got what it takes?

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or an associate’s degree, technical diploma, or current enrollment in a nursing bridge program is required
• Current licensure with the Board of Nursing for the State of Texas or Nurse Licensure Compact and BLS certification with American Heart Association are required
• 9 months of professional nursing experience
• The ability to demonstrate positive and appropriate interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate good time and resource management skills
• Demonstrate flexibility
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills
• Operate unit specific equipment
• Able to work nights
• Knowledge of the nursing process, critical thinking skills, PALS, ACLS and interdisciplinary collaboration

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.

• 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.
• Assesses 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.
• Participates in unit performance improvement initiatives.

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…