Pre-Op Registered Nurse

Full Time Pre-Op Registered Nurse

Houston Physicians Hospital, a leading healthcare provider, is seeking a dedicated Full Time Pre-Op Registered Nurse to join our esteemed team. You will play a vital role in delivering exceptional care to our patients, while upholding our core beliefs of value, integrity, continuity, accessibility, and community engagement.

Pre-Op Registered Nurse at Houston Physicians Hospital

To act as patient advocate, providing continuity of care designed to meet individual patient needs through collaboration with other members of the health care team at the Center. Supports the philosophy, objectives and goals of the organization. The Pre-op nurse will ensure quality care to the individual patients pre-operatively including, but not limited to geriatric, adult, pediatric and adolescent patients.

Responsibilities:

• Readies the area to receive patients.
• Conducts and documents departmental environmental audits
• Assesses physical and emotional needs of patients and implements appropriate Nursing interventions. Include confirmation of the following information:
• Allergies
• Medications taken at home
• Dentures, contacts or glasses
• Pertinent medical conditions
• Pertinent past medical history
• Confirmation of consent and operative side
• Confirmation of responsible party
• Assesses or performs the following:
• Puts all patients on the monitor, including blood pressure
• Temperature
• Weight and height
• Accucheck for blood sugar, if applicable

Qualifications:

• Associates Degree in Nursing;
  Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred
• Licensure as Registered Nurse in the State of Texas.
• 1-3 years Pre Op/PACU or ICU experience
• Current BLS, ACLS, PALS certification
• Cooperative work attitude toward and with co-employees, management, patients, visitors and

What We Offer:

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage
• Life and AD&D coverage
• Availability of short- and long-term disability
• Flexible financial benefits including FSAs and HSAs
• 401(k) and access to retirement planning
• Paid holidays and vacation

Who We Are:

At USPI, we create relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and health care systems to provide first class ambulatory solutions throughout the United States. We are committed to providing surgical services in the most efficient and clinically excellent manner.

USPI is committed to, and proud of our inclusive culture. An inclusive culture, in our view, is respectful of differences and nurtures and supports the contributions of each individual, while also embracing and leveraging diversity. A diverse workforce, combined with an inclusive culture, makes USPI stronger and better able to meet the needs of our diverse patient and physician population.