Labor Delivery RN
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts patients' well‑being and recovery. You will provide individualized, comprehensive care, make critical assessments, perform skilled procedures, and meticulously implement patient care plans while collaborating seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team.
- Assessment: Conduct admission and ongoing assessment of patients’ conditions, provide nursing care to meet physical, psychological, and spiritual needs, and notify the doctor of changes requiring attention.
- Planning: Design, direct, evaluate, and document the plan of care, patient/family teaching, and transition of care; work with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs; formulate daily goals considering individualized patient needs.
- Implementation: Prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies to reduce anxiety; know patients' conditions and report significant changes to the Charge Nurse/Team Leader or physician; implement patient safety initiatives and protocols, including medication safety, physician orders, and consult notifications.
- Evaluation: Reassess patients at appropriate intervals after interventions, notify the physician as necessary to modify interventions, and adjust nursing care to meet emerging and changing needs.
- Report Skills: Give and receive report using Bedside Shift Report with family participation; provide an accurate, comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to ensure continuity of care; delegate tasks as needed based on coworker experience, abilities, and patient acuity.
- Environment & Patient Safety: Maintain patient and work environment to maximize safety; promptly remove used and soiled equipment and linen to appropriate locations; incorporate national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction; report all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.
Job Requirements
- Associate Degree in Nursing (required)
- At least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire
- Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire
- Registered Nurse: Texas licensure, upon hire
- Basic Life Support – CPR, within 14 days of hire
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program, within 6 months of hire
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 months of hire
Workplace
St. Luke’s Health – The Woodlands Hospital is a 245‑bed facility serving North Harris and Montgomery counties. The hospital has been recognized as a Best Hospital by U.S. News & World Report and serves as the clinical home for the Dan L Duncan Cancer Center. It received an “A” hospital safety grade from The Leapfrog Group in both 2023 and 2025. Clinical services include cardiovascular services, diagnostic imaging, women’s services (digital mammography and bone density studies), neurosciences, pediatric care (Newborn and Level III nurseries), surgery, pathology and pulmonary services, and sleep disorder services.
Pay
$35.45 – $55.36 per hour