Registered Nurse RN - FSED Emergency Room ER

Freestanding Emergency Room Registered Nurse (RN)

Elevate your emergency nursing career by joining the autonomous, fast-paced team at HCA Houston ER 24/7 - North Channel, a full-service freestanding emergency department operating as a direct extension of the award-winning HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast. As a Freestanding Emergency Room (FSED) Registered Nurse (RN), you will practice at the absolute top of your license, delivering comprehensive adult and pediatric emergency services for all types of acute injuries and illnesses.

Our state-of-the-art facility provides rapid-response medical intervention equipped with a full suite of on-site services, including advanced laboratory testing, digital X-rays, CT scans, ultrasound imaging, and on-call specialty consults. Because we are seamlessly affiliated with HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast—which holds a provisional Level III Trauma Center status and has earned five consecutive Patient Safety Excellence Awards™ from Health grades—you can provide direct, bottleneck-free hospital admissions or smooth transfers to an advanced inpatient bed when a higher level of care is required.

Choosing a career at this location means working within a parent network recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies®, blending the clinical strength of a major medical hospital system with the agility and close-knit community culture of a neighborhood ER.

As a Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, patient-centered care in line with the requirements of the department and the standards of practice for the relevant state and specialty. Collaborating with medical providers and the care team, you will provide personalized, comprehensive, and compassionate care, following established nursing models such as "Assess, Perform, Teach, and Manage." You will also act as an advocate for patients, families, and caregivers, embodying the organization's vision, mission, and values to ensure an outstanding patient experience and positive clinical outcomes.

What you will do in this role:

• Assesses patient pain regularly to promote effective pain management, including reassessments after appropriate intervention.
• Performs procedures, monitoring, or other functions as ordered by the medical provider(s). Documents the administration of care in the patient medical record in a timely and thorough manner.
• Performs exceptional care by responding promptly to patient requests. Strives to anticipate patient needs and resolve them proactively.
• Teaches patients/families/caregivers about patient medical condition, patient status, treatment plan, medications and possible side effects, and follow-up measures. Translates complex medical terminology to ensure complete understanding.
• Teaches patients/families/caregivers about any non-medicinal follow-up measures, such as healthy diet and exercise, disease prevention, and/or other lifestyle changes. Prepares patients and families/caregivers for future self-management.

What qualifications you will need:

• Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing is required. BSN is preferred.
• Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RN License within 90 days of hire date).
• Current BLS, ACLS, and PALS Certification are required.
• NIH Stroke Scale must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
• Trauma Nursing Core Course must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
• 1 year of RN working experience in freestanding ER or hospital ER required.

Level I, Level II, Trauma Care, Emergency Department, Triage, ESI scoring, Rapid response, critical care, mass casualty, surge capacity, decontamination, airway, intubation, defibrillation, cardioversion, chest tube, central line, arterial, intraosseous, IO, focused assessment with sonography for trauma, FAST, massive transfusion, MTP, continuous cardiac, hemodynamic, monitoring, stroke, NIHSS, STEMI, ST-elevation myocardial infarction,…