RN NICU

Job Summary and Responsibilities

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.

• Assessment: Conduct admission and ongoing assessment of the patient's condition. Provide nursing care to meet physical, psychological, and spiritual needs. Notify the doctor of changes requiring attention.
• Planning: Design, direct, evaluate, and document the plan of care, patient/family teaching, and transition of care to ensure a safe, appropriate level of care at discharge. 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 practices, physician orders, and consult notifications.
• Evaluation: Reassess patients at appropriate intervals following interventions. Notify the physician as necessary to modify interventions. 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 and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to establish continuity of care. Receive report from the off‑going shift and delegate tasks as needed based on coworker experience, abilities, and patient acuity.
• Environment & Patient Safety: Maintain patient and work environment to maximize safe working space. Promptly remove used and soiled equipment, linen, etc., to appropriate locations. 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 at hire.
• Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire.
• Registered Nurse: Texas license at hire.
• Basic Life Support – CPR certification within 14 days of hire.
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification within 6 months of hire.
• Stable Program certification within 6 months of hire.

Work Location

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, pulmonary services, and sleep disorder services.

Pay

$35.45 – $55.36 per hour.