Registered Nurse RN - Rapid Response RRT

Work Schedule: 3 shifts per week, 7p-7a/Rotating Weekends

Advance your critical care nursing career by joining the elite, high-autonomy mobile intervention team at HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, an award-winning facility ranked by Health grades among America’s 250 Best Hospitals™ and a consecutive recipient of the Patient Safety Excellence Award™. As a Rapid Response Team (RRT) Registered Nurse (RN), you will serve as a frontline clinical expert, responding to urgent alerts hospital-wide to stabilize deteriorating patients, prevent cardiopulmonary arrests, and facilitate immediate escalations of care.

You will operate at the absolute pinnacle of your license, utilizing advanced clinical assessment skills and standing protocols in a facility recognized with the Health grades Critical Care Excellence Award™. Choosing a career within this vital service line means collaborating with intensivists and emergency providers in a high-performing environment that holds a provisional adult Level III Trauma Center status
, national certification as a Primary Stroke Center
, and stands as the only hospital in Pasadena recognized by the American College of Cardiology as an accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI and Resuscitation
. Your life-saving interventions will be backed by a system highly honored by the American Heart Association with the Coronary Artery Disease Gold Plus Receiving
and NSTEMI Gold performance awards, all within a parent network celebrated by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World's 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 organization's vision, mission, and values to ensure an outstanding patient experience and positive clinical outcomes.

What You Will Do In Your Role:

• Responds to all RRTs (Rapid Response calls), Code Blue, and Code Neuro.
• Communicates daily with each charge nurse to identify high risk patients
• Round on departments to include Women and Children Services, PACU, and ED holding every two hours to address MEWS scores and address questions and/or concerns of staff.
• Assesses all “at risk” patients as identified by MEWS score increases
• Monitors surgery schedule and rounds on any “at risk” post op patients
• Facilitates debriefings of post codes
• Facilitate StaRN learning and serve as resource
• Enters RRT data and creates monthly reports using excel, reports data to appropriate committees
• Completes 24 hours post RRT/Code Blue follow up and documentation.
• Leads and facilitates RRT/Code Blue Committee
• Refers patient complaints to appropriate Unit Managers/Directors.
• Utilizes chain of command to ensure appropriate action is taken
• Facilitates a staff satisfaction feedback system for RRT

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 and ACLS Certification are required.
• NIHSS Stroke Scale Certification required.
• PALS preferred; required after six months completion in position.
• CCRN, CNRN, and/or CEN preferred, required after six months completion in position.
• 2-years of clinical ER or ICU experience as a licensed RN required
  

HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• 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…