Medical/Surgical ICU RN

About the role

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. 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'll 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 not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

Responsibilities

• Assessment: admission and ongoing assessment of patient's condition; provides nursing care to meet the patient's physical, psychological and spiritual needs; notifies doctor of changes in assessment that require attention.
• Planning: designs, directs, evaluates, and documents the plan of care, patient/family teaching and the transition of care plan to include a safe appropriate level of care discharge; works with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs; formulates a plan of care and daily goals that takes into consideration the individualized needs of the patient.
• Implementation: prepares patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety; knows patients' conditions and reports significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader, and/or physician; implements patient safety initiative and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, consult notifications.
• Evaluation: reassesses patients at appropriate intervals following interventions; notifies physician as necessary to modify interventions; adjusts nursing care to meet patient's emerging and changing needs.
• Report Skills: gives and receives report using Bedside Shift Report including family participation; provides an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care; receives report from

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Minimum one (1) year of RN experience
• Current Texas RN license
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification within 14 days of hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification within 6 months of hire
• Demonstrated competence meeting Registered Nurse I performance expectations

Where You'll Work

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is a 1,045‑bed facility located in the Texas Medical Center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, it is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence, with breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital houses the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally accredited NCI‑designated comprehensive cancer center. The new McNair Campus spans 27.5 acres and is designed around the human experience using evidence‑based practices for safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians, representing the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading‑edge patient care, research, and education.

Pay

$35.45 - $55.36 per hour