Progressive Care Nurse
Job Summary
As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will deliver compassionate, high-quality care that impacts patients' well-being and recovery. You will assess patients, plan their care, implement treatments, and evaluate their progress, always collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
Responsibilities
Does 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.
Designs, directs, evaluates, and documents the plan of care, patient/family teaching, and the transition of care plan.
Works with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs.
Formulates a plan of care and daily goals that consider the individualized needs of the patient.
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, and consult notifications.
Reassesses patients at appropriate intervals following interventions and notifies physician as necessary to modify interventions.
Adjusts nursing care to meet patient's emerging and changing needs.
Reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.
Give and receive 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 off-going shift and delegates tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworker's experience, abilities, and the patient's acuity.
Maintains patient and work environment to maximize safe working space.
Promptly removes all used and soiled equipment, linen, etc. to appropriate location.
Incorporates national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction.
Requirements
Required: Associates Degree in Nursing and 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: TX, upon hire.
Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days.
Preferred: Bachelors of Nursing, upon hire.
Where You'll Work
St. Luke’s Health – Memorial Lufkin is a 279 bed facility and member of CommonSpirit Health, a national nonprofit health system. Serving East Texas, St. Luke’s Health-Memorial Lufkin provides more than a quarter of a million patient services annually and contributes millions of dollars in local charity care and community support. We’re the area’s first Joint Commission Certified Primary Stroke Center, with board-certified neurologists and neurosurgeons offering full-spectrum stroke care. Nationally recognized as a HealthCare Center of Excellence, St. Luke’s Health-Memorial Lufkin offers compassionate, comprehensive health care, including off-campus rehab and outpatient facilities and services. In addition to its large emergency department, there are 32 private rooms, dedicated imaging and OBGYN, wound care, infusion, and lab services.
Pay Range
$30.70 - $46.82 /hour