ICU Registered Nurse

About the Role

The professional Registered Nurse (RN) is the patient and patient's family advocate. He/she consistently applies and utilizes the nursing process, critical thinking skills, scientific judgment, technical skills, and leadership to independently deliver safe nursing care to patients. The RN collaborates with the patient care team to achieve quality patient outcomes in alignment with the Hospital mission and Methodist Excellence goals. Communicates and utilizes interpersonal skills effectively and role models confidence and professionalism within nursing as evidenced by active engagement in unit and organizational activities. Demonstrates team work and adaptability and is a resource person to the patient care team.

As an ICU Registered Nurse, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn—whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

About the Unit

• 20-bed Intensive Care Unit
• Patient-to-Nurse ratio: 2:1
• Caring for a variety of ICU patients with a focus on open heart
• Stroke Certified Unit
• Collaborate closely with the Eye Bank and Tissue and Organ Alliance
• Strong culture of teamwork, support, education, empowerment, and fun
• Actively precepts nursing students from several institutions

Responsibilities

• Applies nursing judgment through a thorough, systematic approach of the nursing process, including:
  • Assessment: Conducts comprehensive, timely, and ongoing focused physical, psycho-social, and pain assessments; includes assessment of patient education needs.
  • Planning: Utilizes the assessment, identifies problems, makes nursing diagnoses, formulates goals, teaching plans, and outcomes to create an individualized plan of care. Identifies individual patient goals, readiness to learn, and incorporates family into the plan of care.
  • Implementation: Prioritizes and implements a competent, prioritized, and efficient nursing plan of care.
  • Evaluation/Reassessment: Consistently conducts timely evaluation, anticipates and recognizes changes in patient conditions, determines when reassessments are needed, and adjusts the plan of care as necessary. Compares expected and achieved outcomes of nursing care utilizing the plan of care.
• Collaborates with patient care team members on the patient care plan; communicates timely and effectively with physicians and other members of the patient care team through verbal, written, or electronic communication to coordinate and facilitate meeting patient needs. Incorporates consistent use of hand-off communication and SBAR communication methods.
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills, scientific judgment, and organizational skills. Prioritizes tasks and adjusts priorities when necessary. Maintains an orderly, efficient, and timely flow of patients. Recognizes and reports errors and unusual occurrences and analyzes contributing factors. Initiates corrective action when appropriate.
• Makes accurate, complete, and timely entries into the patient medical record addressing all steps of the nursing process. Actively communicates with members of the healthcare team, patient, and patient family.
• Maintains current nursing knowledge to assure a safe working environment. Demonstrates practical application of all policies and procedures relative to safety and the pillars of Methodist Excellence, including:
  • Applicable quality core measures
  • Infection prevention
  • Fall prevention
  • Medication administration safety
  • Hourly rounding
  • AIDET principles

Requirements

• Associate's Degree in Nursing or RN Diploma required
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred
• Minimum of six (6) months of clinical experience as a licensed Registered Nurse required
• One (1) year of Registered Nurse experience in acute care settings strongly preferred
• Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RN License within 90 days of hire date)
• Current American Heart Association BLS Certification required
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) preferred

Benefits

Methodist Hospital Stone Oak offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including:
  • 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Preferred banking partnerships
  • Retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts