Progressive Care Nurse

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Assessment: Perform admission and ongoing assessment of patient’s condition; provide nursing care to meet the patient’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs; notify the doctor of changes in assessment that require attention.
• Planning: Design, direct, evaluate, and document the plan of care, patient/family teaching, and transition of care plan to include a safe appropriate level of care discharge; work with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs; formulate a plan of care and daily goals that consider the individualized needs of the patient.
• Implementation: Prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety; know patients' conditions and report significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader and/or physician; implement patient safety initiatives and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, and consult notifications.
• Evaluation: Reassess patients at appropriate intervals following interventions; notify physician as necessary to modify interventions; adjust nursing care to meet patient's emerging and changing needs.
• Report Skills: Give and receive report using Bedside Shift Report including family participation; provide an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care; receive report from off‑going shift and delegate tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworker's experience, abilities, and the patient's acuity.
• Environment & Patient Safety: Maintain patient and work environment to maximize safe working space; promptly remove all used and soiled equipment, linen, etc. to appropriate location; incorporate national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety, and satisfaction; report all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.

Requirements

• Associate’s Degree in Nursing
• At least one (1) year of RN experience
• Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire
• Registered Nurse license in TX, upon hire
• Basic Life Support – CPR, within 14 days

Preferred: Bachelor’s of Nursing, upon hire.

Pay

$30.70 – $46.82 per hour