Nursing Jobs in Corpus Christi, TX

Job Summary

Ready for a role that supports your unique calling in patient care and fits your life? At Corpus Christi Medical Center, you’ll find clear pathways to advance backed by our unmatched nationwide transfer policy that lets you grow your career when the time is right for you. With mentorship opportunities, clinical education courses, professional certification support, and educational assistance, you will have all the resources you need to build the career of a lifetime.

• Strives to meet expectations/needs of customers; responds to concerns with sense of urgency; seeks win-win solutions for unreasonable patient/customer expectations.
• Educates patient and family regarding all aspects of disease management, diagnostic and interventional procedures and signs and symptoms that require a follow-up telephone call or triage visit.
• Seeks opportunities for improvement; prevents small problems from becoming large ones; pays attention to detail; follows instructions and protocol/procedures; adheres to company Standards of Behavior; maintains integrity in all aspects of his/her work.
• Builds effective working relationships; finds and provides information to clarify situations; expands on original ideas; contributes own ideas; places high priority on other team members goals; gains team agreement to support ideas; clearly explains rationale behind ideas/goals; demonstrates sensitivity to differing cultural views and needs; meets attendance and punctuality requirements.
• Maintains/addresses the Physician Communication Tool to fix or elevate any issues as needed.
• Ensures appropriate resources are available to support patient care and procedures; collaborates with Supply Chain on supplies/implants and Sterile Processing on instrumentation and ensures all is ready prior to procedure date.
• Communicates/coordinates with perfusion, first assistants, and any other outside vendors/agencies to ensure support for procedure.
• Seeks to understand changes in work tasks/processes; actively seeks information about new tasks/processes; treats change and new tasks/processes as opportunities for learning and personal growth; speaks positively about changes to others; quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with change.
• Demonstrates knowledge and application of the surgical process in relation to the cardiovascular patient.
• Conducts interviews with patient, family and other healthcare agencies to obtain past medical records, social and medical history and to assess their understanding of the plan of care.
• Serves as the patient and family advocate with respect to the patient’s right to privacy by protecting confidential information.
• Prepares and analyzes pre-procedure clinical data and consults with multidisciplinary team.
• Actively seeks ways to control costs without compromising patient safety, quality of care, or the services delivered.
• Maintains/updates preference cards as needed.
• Follows patient post procedure for continuity of care.

• Minimum 1 year of nursing experience with emphasis on cardiovascular patient care; maximum of 5 years of cardiovascular knowledge.
• BSN required.
• Current Texas RN licensure.
• American Red Cross or American Heart Association Basic Life Support Course (BLS or BCLS) and certification.
• American Red Cross or American Heart Association Advanced Life Support Course (ALS or ACLS) and certification.
• American Red Cross or American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Course and certification.

• 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.
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), employee stock purchase plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling.
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts.

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.