RN III - Pediatrics High Risk; TMC)

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.

Join a highly specialized pediatric clinic dedicated to caring for medically complex children and their families. In this role, the RN serves as a key member of the interdisciplinary care team, coordinating care across multiple specialties and helping ensure exceptional patient- and family-centered care. This unique outpatient setting offers the opportunity to build long-term relationships with patients, following their journey from infancy through transition to adult care while gaining exposure to a wide variety of complex conditions and disease processes.

The ideal candidate will have a strong pediatric nursing background, preferably with pediatric critical care experience, and a passion for supporting complex patient populations. This is a full-time, fully onsite position, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with no weekends or major holidays.

Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...

• Free financial and legal counseling
• Free mental health counseling services
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Resources for child and elder care
• Plus many more!

Functions in a clinical lead role in collaborative interdisciplinary team providing comprehensive care to patients and families with complex healthcare needs that may be both predictable and unpredictable. Aims to provide care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.

• Performs responsibilities in a manner that promotes quality patient care and customer service/satisfaction.
• Adheres to broad scope of practice as established by the Nurse Practice Act.
• Assures compliance with quality standards, and regulatory and accrediting agency specifications to meet federal, state and local standards.
• Assists clinical and administrative staff in formulating goals and objectives .to meet both qualitative and quantitative outcomes.
• Participates in the development of nursing and clinical policies procedures, and competencies. Develops and/or acquires instructional materials, supplies, and equipment necessary to conduct training continuing education and staff development.
• Ensures the efficient operation of the clinic or unit by proper scheduling and planning for optimum use of equipment, staff and resources, maintenance of stock and supplies, efficient and safe use of equipment.
• Uses systematic approach to provide nursing care to patients and families/populations by performing focused and comprehensive assessments through subjective and evidence based objective data.
• Prioritizes, synthesizes, and documents assessments and nursing plan of care using critical thinking and judgment.
• Implements plan of care within scope of practice through assignment and…