Hospital - ICU RN III (Part-Time, Night Shift)

Responsibilities

• Identifies staff development opportunities for colleagues' professional growth and provides coaching to meet identified goals.
• Acts as a model and coaches staff in effective verbal, non‑verbal, and written communication, including active listening and teaching.
• Provides oversight for student/new employee preceptorships.
• Collaborates to foster healthy relationships in the work environment, such as conflict mitigation.
• Advocates for a balanced workload, promotes positive behaviors, and promotes peer‑to‑peer accountability.
• Improves nurse satisfaction by serving as a role model and mentor, facilitating teamwork with RNs, non‑licensed, and interprofessional staff, as evidenced by annual RN‑RN teamwork and interprofessional relationship scores.
• Provides recommendations to improve department scores for turnover/retention.
• Leads patient and family‑centered care standards and mentors others regarding specialty populations.
• Develops, updates, and communicates a plan of care, including discharge, in partnership with the patient, family, and interprofessional health‑care team using the nursing process.
• Prioritizes care based on the patient’s needs, abilities, and preferences; advocates on the patient/family’s behalf to resolve clinical and ethical concerns.
• Develops appropriate resources and supports unit practices and guidelines; implements effective patient teaching strategies and evaluates comprehension.
• Drives department activities to improve patient‑satisfaction scores through peer‑to‑peer accountability.
• Provides care as the staff nurse leader to complex patients and leads the interprofessional team in implementing the plan of care.
• Anticipates, prevents, and resolves early declines in patient condition and emergent situations; manages assignment of complex patients and other unit demands.
• Responds to Rapid Response/CERTs and emergency codes; models regulatory and professional practice standards.
• Models highly developed assessment, clinical documentation, leadership, and analytical skills; contributes to practice standards, policies, procedures, and protocols; leads improvements in patient‑safety‑related processes.
• Contributes to development of service‑line and hospital standards and guidelines; leads practice‑change and performance‑improvement initiatives.
• Investigates and incorporates evidence‑based practices presented to shared governance and leadership.
• Leads initiatives to improve quality and safety scores through peer‑to‑peer accountability, near‑miss reporting, and collaborative solutions.
• Models situational awareness and uses teachable moments to improve safety; audits plans of care as needed.
• Manages time effectively, prioritizing daily tasks to minimize incidental overtime.
• Collaborates with the interprofessional team to facilitate patient throughput and achieve organizational goals.
• Implements department strategies to achieve financial targets, mentoring others in timely documentation, decreasing length of stay, and optimizing efficiency.
• Expands individual nursing knowledge and coaches staff to grow in knowledge, abilities, skills, and attitudes.
• Serves as a clinical resource; develops and disseminates educational resources to improve quality and professional practice.
• Supports change initiatives, adapts to unexpected changes, and fosters innovative solutions to improve patient care or unit operations.
• Participates in unit projects and shared governance activities; performs other job‑related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN) required.
• Certification/Licensure: Current Texas Board of Nursing (or Compact State) RN license; or a Temporary Texas RN License (permanent TX license within 90 days of hire). American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required within 7 days of hire.
• Required Skills: Minimum two (2) years nursing experience in a healthcare environment.

About Us

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) is a nationally recognized, top‑tier public research university that unites higher education, biomedical discovery, and health care. As the third‑largest research university in Texas and a Carnegie R1‑designated institution, UT San Antonio serves approximately 42,000 students in 320 academic programs and employs 17,000 faculty and staff. It has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Company Culture.

Benefits Overview

• Medical: UT SELECT Medical insurance offered free for employees; administered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. Family members can be added via payroll deduction with discounted copays and coinsurance when using UT Health Physicians.
• Life & Accidental Death: $50,000 of group term life insurance and $50,000 of basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance provided at no cost; additional coverage available for purchase.
• Dental: Three dental plan options (two PPOs and one HMO) through Delta Dental Insurance Company; PPO plans allow any licensed dentist.
• Vision: Fully insured vision care benefits offered by Superior Vision Services with two plan options (standard or enhanced).
• Disability: Disability Insurance provides income if a non‑work‑related illness or injury prevents work.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs): Available for dependent day‑care expenses or out‑of‑pocket health‑care expenses.
• Retirement: Eligibility for