St. Luke's Health - Memorial - Lufkin·Lufkin, Texas
As a Specialty Registered Nurse, the role involves delivering compassionate, high-quality care through critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing individualized patient care plans. Responsibilities include ongoing patient assessment, designing and documenting the plan of care, preparing patients for treatments, and evaluating outcomes following interventions.
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Luke's Health - Memorial Lufkin is dedicated to enhancing your health and well-being.
Our facility is a collaboration between St.
Luke’s Health and a team of specialized physicians—focused on general and interventional cardiology, sports medicine, and orthopedics, including total joint replacement and spine care.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities As a Specialty Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.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.To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others.
Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
Essential key job responsibilities Assessment: Does admission and ongoing assessment of patient’s condition.
Provides nursing care to meet the patient’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs.
Notifies doctor of changes in assessment that require attention.
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. Formulates a plan of care and daily goals that takes into consideration the individualized needs of the patient.
Prepares patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety. Knows patients' conditions and reports significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader, and/or physician. Implements patient safety initiative and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, consult notifications.
Reassesses patients at appropriate intervals following interventions. Notifies physician as necessary to modify interventions. Adjusts nursing care to meet patient's emerging and changing needs.
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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. Receives report from Job Requirements Required Associates Of Science Nursing, upon hire and At least one (1) year of RN experience and Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire and
Registered
Nurse: TX, upon hire and Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days and Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 - months Preferred Bachelors Of Science Nursing, upon hire
Required qualifications include an Associate of Science in Nursing or Diploma in Nursing upon hire, along with at least one year of RN experience demonstrating competence. Candidates must possess a Texas Registered Nurse license, Basic Life Support (BLS) certification within 14 days, and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within six months.
Market context
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