Heart and Lung Transplant ICU Registered Nurse

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Registered Nurse coordinates and delivers high quality, patient-centered care in accordance with the nature and specific requirements of the department, and consistent with the scope and standards of practice for the relevant state and specialty. In collaboration with medical providers and other members of the care team, the RN provides individualized, comprehensive, and compassionate care using established nursing models such as “Assess, Perform, Teach, and Manage.”

The RN serves as an advocate for patients/families/caregivers and models a commitment to the organization’s vision/mission/values to support an unparalleled patient experience and clinical outcomes that contribute to overall departmental performance.

• In this combined two units of 57 beds, you will take care of patients with critical heart conditions. You will monitor patients who have recently had a cardiac emergency or undergone heart surgery, such as a transplant or bypass.
• You will do everything from a STEMI to heart, kidney, & lung transplants.
• We offer a comprehensive orientation process, with highly supportive and experienced staff that provide education within the specialty.
• Our units are state-of-the-art equipped with the latest technologies in patient care.
• Our team conducts multidisciplinary rounds with the interdisciplinary team in identifying safe and efficient critical management high acuity acute care.

• Apply nursing judgment through a thorough, systematic approach of applying the nursing process to include:
• Assessment:
  Conducts comprehensive, timely, and ongoing focused physical, psycho‑social and pain assessments; includes assessment of patient education needs.
• Planning:
  Utilizes the assessment, identifies problems, makes nursing diagnoses, formulates goals, teaching plans and outcomes to create an individualized plan of care. Identifies individual patient goals, readiness to learn and incorporates family into the plan of care.
• Implementation:
  Prioritizes and implements a competent, prioritized and efficient nursing plan of care.
• Evaluation/Reassessment:
  Consistently conduct timely evaluation, anticipate and recognize changes in patient conditions, determines when reassessments are needed and adjusts the plan of care as necessary. Compare expected and achieved outcomes of nursing care utilizing the plan of care.
• Collaborate with patient care team members on patient care plan; communicate timely and effectively with physicians and other members of the patient care team through verbal, written or electronic communication to coordinate and facilitate meeting patient needs. Incorporate consistent use of hand‑off communication and SBAR communication methods.
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills, scientific judgment, and organizational skills. Prioritize tasks and adjust priorities when necessary. Maintain an orderly, efficient and timely flow of patients. Recognize and report errors and unusual occurrences and analyze contributing factors. Initiate corrective action when appropriate.
• Make accurate, complete and timely entries into the patient medical record addressing all steps of the nursing process. Actively communicate with members of the healthcare team, patient and patient family.
• Maintain current nursing knowledge to assure a safe working environment. Demonstrate practical application of all policies and procedures relative to safety and the pillars of Methodist Excellence to include: applicable quality core measures, infection prevention, fall prevention, medication administration safety, hourly rounding, and AIDET principles.

• Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree registered nursing program required
• Minimum of six (6) months of clinical experience as a licensed Registered Nurse required
• One (1) year of ICU/acute critical care experience or two to three (2‑3) years in any acute specialty as a licensed Registered Nurse highly preferred
• Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi‑State Compact License required (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain…