Day Surgery RN

About the role

As a Registered Nurse (RN) on our Float/Flex Team, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well‑being and recovery while presenting a positive attitude and being reliable. 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 will 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 support patient recovery and fuel your own career advancement.

Responsibilities

• Utilize the nursing process to ensure appropriate patient care is provided in a cost‑effective, quality‑driven, and patient‑focused manner.
• Collect pertinent social, psychological, developmental, and spiritual data from the patient, significant others, and other health‑care team members.
• Perform ongoing assessment, formulate nursing diagnoses and goals, plan appropriate interventions, and evaluate the outcomes of those interventions.
• Consistently document in the patient and unit records according to written health‑system standards of care to meet legal and quality patient‑care requirements.
• Provide appropriate teaching and information to patients and families, including pain management, nutrition, skin integrity, fall prevention, diabetes, disease process, smoking cessation, and discharge instructions.
• Demonstrate 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.
• Use interventions substantiated by research as appropriate for the patient population.
• Participate in research activities, identify opportunities for research, and collaborate with outcomes managers and the department.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree in Nursing.
• At least one (1) year of RN experience.
• Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.
• Registered Nurse license in Texas, obtained upon hire.
• Basic Life Support – CPR certification within 14 days of hire.

Where You’ll Work

St. Luke’s Health–Brazosport Hospital is located on a beautiful, 25‑acre campus in Lake Jackson, Texas. The facility offers state‑of‑the‑art diagnostic and comprehensive treatment services, including a 154‑bed patient tower, Level III trauma center, advanced cardiac care center, and a full‑service, multidisciplinary cancer center. The team consists of over 100 board‑certified physicians and nearly 600 highly skilled employees, dedicated to providing quality care with compassion for the communities served.

Pay

$42.00 – $42.00 per hour