ICU Nurse

About the role

As a Registered Nurse (RN) at St. Luke's Health-Memorial Livingston, you will deliver compassionate, high-quality care, performing assessments, implementing care plans, collaborating with an interdisciplinary team, and ensuring patient safety. The facility is a 66-bed member of CommonSpirit Health serving East Texas, providing more than a quarter of a million patient services annually and contributing millions in local charity care. Services include orthopedic care, women’s health, a state‑of‑the‑art sleep center, and advanced imaging (MRI, CT, 3D mammography, 4D ultrasound, cardiac echo), with about half of the 60,000+ annual patient services delivered through its Level IV trauma‑designated emergency department.

Responsibilities

• Assessment: Performs admission and ongoing assessment of patient’s condition; provides nursing care to meet physical, psychological and spiritual needs; notifies physician of changes requiring attention.
• Planning: Designs, directs, evaluates and documents the plan of care, patient/family teaching and transition/discharge plans; works with other clinical disciplines for specialized care and discharge needs; formulates individualized plan of care and daily goals.
• Implementation: Prepares patients physically, psychologically and spiritually for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies; monitors patient condition and reports significant changes to charge nurse/team leader or physician; implements patient safety initiatives, medication safety practices, follows physician orders and consult notifications.
• Evaluation: Reassesses patients at appropriate intervals after interventions; notifies physician to modify interventions as needed; adjusts nursing care to meet emerging and changing patient needs.
• Report Skills: Gives and receives report using bedside shift report (including family participation); provides accurate, comprehensive report to oncoming shift; receives report from off‑going shift and delegates tasks according to coworker experience, abilities and patient acuity.
• Environment & Patient Safety: Maintains safe patient and work environment; promptly removes used/soiled equipment and linen; incorporates national and organizational quality, safety and satisfaction goals; reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 year of RN experience
• Associate Degree in Nursing (or valid TX RN license)
• Basic Life Support (CPR) certification within 14 days of hire