Cancer Center RN

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. You will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans while collaborating seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team.

• Utilizes the nursing process to ensure appropriate patient care is provided in a cost‑effective, quality‑driven, and patient‑focused manner.
• Collects pertinent social, psychological, developmental and spiritual data from the patient, significant others and other health‑care team members.
• Performs ongoing assessment, formulates nursing diagnosis and goals, plans appropriate interventions, and evaluates the outcome of the interventions.
• Consistently documents in the patient and unit records according to written health‑system standards of care to meet legal and quality patient‑care requirements.
• Provides appropriate teaching and information to patients and families, including pain management, nutrition, skin integrity, fall prevention, diabetes, disease process, smoking cessation, and discharge instructions.
• Demonstrates commitment to the goals and values of the patient, hospital, community and nursing profession through cost‑containment measures, maintaining confidentiality, ethical decision‑making, and ensuring patient safety.
• Uses interventions substantiated by research as appropriate in the patient population, participates in research activities, identifies opportunities for research, and collaborates with outcomes managers and department.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• One (1) year of RN experience
• Registered Nurse: Texas licensure
• Basic Life Support – AHA, current within 14 days

Where You’ll Work

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is a 1,045‑bed facility located in the Texas Medical Center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, it is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence, known for breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital houses the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally‑accredited, NCI‑designated comprehensive cancer center. The new McNair Campus, spread over 27.5 acres, is designed around the human experience and modeled on evidence‑based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians, representing the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading‑edge patient care, research, and education.

Pay

$34.00 – $50.58 per hour