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Cardiac Medical Surgical RN

CHI, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246

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As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high‑quality care that truly impacts our patients' well‑being and recovery.

Responsibilities Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

Assessment: Provides nursing care to meet the patient’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs, and notifies the doctor of changes in assessment that require attention.

Planning: Designs, directs, evaluates, and documents the plan of care, patient/family teaching and the transition of care plan to include a safe appropriate level of care discharge. Works with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs.

Implementation: Prepares patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety. Implements patient safety initiatives and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, consult notifications.

Evaluation: Reassesses patients at appropriate intervals following interventions, notifies physician as necessary to modify interventions, and adjusts nursing care to meet patient’s emerging and changing needs.

Report Skills: Gives and receives report using Bedside Shift Report including family participation. Provides an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care.

Environment & Patient Safety: Maintains patient and work environment to maximize safe working space and reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.

Deliver care to 4‑6 patients per shift for Cardiac patients.

Administer medications, change dressings, monitor vital signs, and chart with timely documentation.

Collaborate with a variety of other healthcare professionals such as social work, care coordination, physical therapy, occupational therapy, lab, respiratory therapy and imaging.

Job Requirements

Associate’s degree in Nursing or Diploma and at least one (1) year of RN experience upon hire.

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within 2 years from date of hire (university graduates grandfathered before July 2020).

Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.

Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire.

Basic Life Support – CPR, within 14 days.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Nursing, upon hire.

Where You'll Work Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more.

Benefits

Health/Dental/Vision Insurance

Free Premium Membership to Care.com with preloaded credits for children and dependent adults

Care for Caregivers: Resilience Through Adversity sessions

Flexible spending accounts

Voluntary Protection: Group Accident, Critical Illness, and Identity Theft

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Tuition Assistance for career growth and development

Matching Retirement Programs

Wellness Programs

Up to $10,000 Relocation assistance

Pay Range $33.00 - $52.80 /hour

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Health Care Provider

Hospitals and Health Care

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