Registered Nurse RN - Neonatal ICU NICU

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Registered Nurse (RN)

Advance your neonatal nursing career by joining the dedicated maternal-infant team at HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, an award-winning facility recognized by Health grades among Americas 250 Best Hospitals™ and a recipient of the Patient Safety Excellence Award™. As a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Registered Nurse (RN), you will deliver highly specialized, life-saving care within our state-designated Level III NICU, which provides comprehensive, 24/7 advanced critical care to premature infants and high-risk newborns of all gestational ages.

Backed by 24/7 dedicated OB hospitalist coverage and an accredited Chest Pain Center with Resuscitation, our multidisciplinary team blends clinical excellence with specialized respiratory and neonatal therapies. Choosing a career here means practicing with an elite team honored locally by the Houston Business Journal and Modern Healthcare as a top place to work, all within a parent network recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the Worlds Most Ethical Companies®.

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 organizations vision, mission, and values to ensure an outstanding patient experience and positive clinical outcomes.

What you will do in this role:

• Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for assigned patients in the NICU and Newborn Nursery.
• Participates in the development and implementation of policies and procedures or the NICU that guide and support the provision of services
• Responsible for meeting the standards of Practice for a Level II and Level III NICU and managing all assigned personnel, supplies and equipment.
• Participates in activities to plan, measure, assess and improve the quality of patient care.
• Performs neonatal assessment of NICU patients and Newborn Nursery patients.
• Performs nursing care of NICU patients and Newborn Nursery patients.
• Performs gestational age assessments.
• Demonstrates appropriate usage and understanding of equipment used in the department.
• Participates in mandatory unit education activities
• Participates in the discharge process to include parent teaching

What qualifications you will need:

• Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree registered nursing program.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing 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 issued from American Heart Association required
• Neonate Resuscitate Program (NRP)
• 1 year of clinical experience as a licensed RN in an acute hospital Level II NICU required.

Level III, Level II, Level IV, NRP, Neonatal Resuscitation, STABLE, CPAP, HFOV, High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation, Nitric Oxide Therapy, Therapeutic Hypothermia, whole body cooling, UVC, UAC, umbilical lines management, PICC line, micro-preemies, micro-premature infant care, ELBW, extremely low birth weight, VLBW, very low birth weight, NAS, neonatal abstinence syndrome, PPHN, persistent pulmonary hypertension, MAS, meconium aspiration syndrome, cue-based feeding kangaroo care, TPN, total parenteral nutrition, surfactant, scoring, gestational, pain assessment, NIPS, CRIES, radiant warmer, family-centered, lactation, breastfeeding, RNC-NIC

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
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