Outpatient OR PreOp 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.

• Assessment:
  Conduct admission and ongoing assessment of patients' 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; formulate a plan of care that takes into consideration the individualized needs of the patient.
• 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 or physician; implement patient safety initiatives and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, 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 bedside shift report including family participation; provide accurate, comprehensive report to oncoming shift; receive report from oncoming shift.

• BSN and at least one (1) year of RN experience; 24 months minimum; demonstrate competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meet experience requirements upon hire.
• Registered Nurse: TX upon hire.
• Basic Life Support - CPR within 14 days;
  Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 6 months;
  Pediatric Advanced Life Support within 6 months.

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is a 1,045-bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St. Luke's is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center.

Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience - modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education.

$35.45 - $55.36 per hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.