Vascular and Thoracic Surgery Telemetry RN

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.

Responsibilities

• Assessment:
  Admission and ongoing assessment of patient’s condition. Provide nursing care to meet the patient’s physical, psychological, and spiritual needs. Notify doctor of changes in assessment that require attention.
• Planning:
  Design, direct, evaluate, and document the plan of care, patient/family teaching, and the 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 patient s individualized needs.
• Implementation:
  Prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety. Know patients  conditions and report significant changes to 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 physician as necessary to modify interventions. Adjust nursing care to meet patient s emerging and changing needs.
• Report
  
  Skills:
  
  Give and receive report using Bedside Shift Report including family participation. Provide an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care. Receive report from off-going shift and delegate tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworker s experience, abilities and the patient s acuity.
• Environment & Patient Safety:
  Maintain patient and work environment to maximize safe working space. Promptly remove all used and soiled equipment, linen, etc., to the appropriate location. Incorporate national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction. Report all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.

• Associates Degree in Nursing or Diploma; at least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire
• Bachelor s of Nursing (BSN) within 2 years from date of hire (current employees grandfathered before July 2020)
• Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire
• Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire
• Basic Life Support (CPR) within 14 days

• Bachelor s of Nursing (BSN) upon hire

Up to $10,000 relocation assistance

Baylor St. Luke s Medical Center is an 881-bed qua ternary care academic medical center that is a joint venture between Baylor College of Medicine and CHI St. Luke s Health. Located in the Texas Medical Center, the hospital is the home of the Texas Heart Institute, a cardiovascular research and education institution. The hospital has been designated a Magnet hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, receiving the award five consecutive times.

Baylor St. Luke s also has three community emergency centers offering adult and pediatric care for the Greater Houston area.

CHI St. Luke s Health, now part of Common Spirit Health, has been serving our community since 1954, operating 137 hospitals and more than 1,000 care sites across 21 states. We proudly provide a vast array of services that help us keep our community safe and healthy.

• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Free Premium Membership to  with preloaded credits for children and dependent adults
• Care for Caregivers:
  Resilience Through Adversity sessions
• Flexible spending accounts
• Voluntary Protection:
  Group Accident, Critical Illness, and Identity Theft
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• PTO
• Tuition Assistance for career growth and development
• Matching Retirement Programs
• Wellness Programs

$33.00 - $52.80 /hour