St. Luke's Brazosport·Lake Jackson, Texas
Provide specialized cardiopulmonary care including ventilator management, oxygen therapies, and mechanical ventilation for patients with breathing issues. Develop and execute care plans while monitoring patient responses and communicating evaluation data to physicians.
Where You’ll Work St.
Luke’s Health–Brazosport Hospital is located on a beautiful, 25-acre campus in Lake Jackson, Texas.
Offering state-of-the-art diagnostic and comprehensive treatment services, our hospital is home to a 154-bed patient tower, level III trauma center, advanced cardiac care center, and full-service, multidisciplinary cancer center.
Our team consists of over 100 board-certified physicians and nearly 600 highly skilled employees to meet our patients’ medical needs.
South Brazoria County’s premier healthcare system, St.
Luke’s Health–Brazosport Hospital is dedicated to providing quality care with compassion for the communities we serve.
Job Summary and Responsibilities 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.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.
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.
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. Receives report from off-going shift and delegates tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworker's experience, abilities and the patient's acuity.
Environment &
Patient
Safety: Maintains patient and work environment to maximize safe working space. Promptly removes all used and soiled equipment, linen, etc. to appropriate location. Incorporates national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety and satisfaction. Reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately. Job Requirements Required Associates Of Science Nursing, upon hire or Diploma 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 Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 - months and Trauma Nurse Core Course, within 12 - months Preferred Bachelors Of Nursing, upon hire
Requires an Associate Degree in Respiratory Therapy and a CRT certification, with RRT obtained within one year of hire. Must hold an active license in Nebraska or Iowa and obtain BLS, ACLS, PALS, and NRP certifications within specified timeframes.
Market context
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