RN Pediatric Float Nights

Job Title

RN Pediatric Float

Full Time - Nights - 36 hours per week

Temple, TX

McLane Children's Hospital

Float Pool, Pediatric – Med Surg, ED, PICU, and NICU

Ability to Float between all Pediatric specialties and train in all areas:
Med Surg, ED, NICU, and PICU.

• 112 patient beds: 48 private medical/surgical rooms, 16 private Pediatric ICU rooms and 48 Neonatal ICU beds in our Level IV NICU
• 24‑hour pediatric emergency department and verified trauma center equipped to deal with the most serious pediatric trauma cases
• Pediatric surgery with five advanced surgical suites and a three‑room procedure suite
• Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Center with state‑of‑the‑art MRI and a "Flash CT" scanner that emits the lowest effective level of radiation, reducing risk to smaller bodies, making scan times faster, and requiring less sedation
• Vein Viewer® illumination device to help access small veins and arteries beneath the skin
• ECMO therapy, a lifesaving heart and lung treatment reserved for the sickest of patients
• Pediatric and neonatal transport ambulance and helicopter

Our facility is focused in every way on children and their families and offers equipment to suit smaller patients and family‑centered spaces.

• Eligibility on day 1 for all benefits
• Dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match, up to 5%
• Debt‑free tuition assistance, offering access to many no‑cost and low‑cost degrees, certificates and more
• Immediate access to time off benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement
• PTO accrual beginning Day 1

The Registered Nurse (RN) Float is a licensed professional who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate patient care delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient, identifies nursing diagnoses based on responses to health problems, develops and implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the patient’s response. The RN promotes safe passage for their patients by using knowledge of patient needs and the healthcare environment to assist patients to transition through the healthcare encounter without any preventable complications or delays.

The RN delegates interventions to health care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each patient’s condition and the competencies of the employee.

Clinical Judgment:
Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements and evaluates the nursing plan of care. Modifies plan to meet clinical outcomes.

Clinical Inquiry:
Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing sensitive indicators. Supports evidence‑based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning. Participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.

Caring Practices:
Creates a compassionate, supportive, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages both emotional and physical pain with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.

Response to Diversity:
Recognizes, appreciates and incorporates a patient’s and family’s unique differences, such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan of care.

Advocacy and Moral Agency:
Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.

Facilitation of Learning:
Facilitates learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community; integrating appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed decisions about their health care and treatments, including health promotion…