Neuro-Angio RN

Baylor St. Lukes Medical Center is an 1045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine Baylor St. Lukes is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care neuroscience oncology transplantation and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experiencemodeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients visitors staff and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care research and education.

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. Youll 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: Does admission and ongoing assessment of patients condition. Provides nursing care to meet the patients 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 patients 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 off-going shift and delegates tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworkers experience abilities and the patients acuity.
• Environment & Patient Safety: 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. Reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.
• Supplies: Maintains accurate documentation of charges and supplies used to provide patient care through cost containment measures.
• Time Management: Clocks in and out appropriately according to policy to ensure work is stated and completed on time. Obtains Director/designees/House Supervisor approval before working overtime including incremental overtime.
• Documentation: Consistently documents in the patient and unit records according to written health system standards of care in order to meet legal and quality patient care requirements.
• License and Competency: Maintains RN license to practice in the State of Texas including multi-state licensure requirements. Takes responsibility for meeting competency requirements. Assists with the orientation of new employees and floated staff as requested and assigned.
• Professional Responsibility: Maintains all professional licenses certifications and annual competencies prior to deadline. Attends mandatory in-services workshops town halls and 75% of all unit meetings per year. Stays up-to-date on communication including emails and current journals to keep abreast of new developments in the medical and nursing fields.
• Patient Care: Notifies and escalates concerns to appropriate providers of life-threatening changes and notes physician response. Effectively applies the nursing process within the framework of the organizations professional model of care using the nursing process to meet the clinical psychosocial and spiritual needs of the patient and family following the Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives (ERD).
• Patient Experience: Creates a caring and compassionate patient focused experience by building healing relationships with patients families and colleagues. Performs hourly rounding and bedside shift report updating the patient communication board and providing service recovery as needed.

Required:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) upon hire
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Texas upon hire
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification issued by the American Heart Association upon hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification issued by the American Heart Association within six (6) months of hire
• At least one (1) year of RN experience upon hire