Operating Room RN
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.
- Unit and setting
- OR · Hospital
- License
- RN license Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire andTexas RN license upon hire
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- License
- Texas RN license upon hire Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire and Check your license
- Education
- Associate's degree in Nursing
- Experience
- at least 1 year of RN experience upon hire At least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire and
- Also asks
- competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire
Preferred
- Education
- Bachelor's of Nursing upon hire Bachelors Of Nursing, upon hire
What it pays
- Against similar roles
- In range for Texas PRN rolesTexas PRN postings that state pay run $30/hr to $63/hr, the middle half $37/hr to $51/hr, across 261 postings.
The role and schedule
- Charge
- Charge shifts are part of the role
- Day to day
- perform admission and ongoing assessments and notify doctor of changes Assessment: Does admission and ongoing assessment of patient’s condition.
- Day to day
- provide nursing care to meet physical, psychological, and spiritual needs Provides nursing care to meet the patient’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs.
- Day to day
- notify physician of assessment changes requiring attention Notifies doctor of changes in assessment that require attention.
- Day to day
- design, direct, evaluate, and document the plan of care, patient/family teaching, and discharge transition
- Day to day
- collaborate with other clinical disciplines for specialized care and discharge needs Works with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs.
- Day to day
- formulate plan of care and daily goals based on individualized patient needs Formulates a plan of care and daily goals that takes into consideration the individualized needs of the patient.
- Day to day
- prepare patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries, and diagnostic studies Implementation: Prepares patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety.
- Day to day
- report significant changes in condition to Charge Nurse/Team Leader or physician Knows patients' conditions and reports significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader, and/or physician.
- Day to day
- implement patient safety initiatives, protocols, medication safety practices, orders, and consults Implements patient safety initiative and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, consult notifications.
- Day to day
- reassess patients at appropriate intervals following interventions Evaluation: Reassesses patients at appropriate intervals following interventions.
- Day to day
- notify physician to modify interventions as necessary Notifies physician as necessary to modify interventions.
- Day to day
- adjust nursing care to meet emerging and changing needs Adjusts nursing care to meet patient's emerging and changing needs.
- Care model
- bedside shift report with family participation Report Skills: Gives and receives report using Bedside Shift Report including family participation.
- Day to day
- provide accurate and comprehensive report to oncoming shift Provides an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care.
- Day to day
- receive shift report and delegate tasks according to coworker abilities and patient acuity 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.
- Day to day
- maintain patient and work environment for safe working space Environment & Patient Safety: Maintains patient and work environment to maximize safe working space.
- Day to day
- promptly remove used and soiled equipment and linen Promptly removes all used and soiled equipment, linen, etc. to appropriate location.
- Day to day
- incorporate quality, patient safety, and satisfaction goals Incorporates national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety and satisfaction.
- Day to day
- report patient safety and hazard concerns immediately Reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.
- Details
- 100-bed hospital facility St. Luke's Health-Sugar Land Hospital is a 100 bed facility serving residents of Fort Bend County and Southwest Houston.
The workplace
- Hospital
- St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital - Sugar Land, TX
- Address
- 1317 Lake Pointe Pkwy, Sugar Land, TX, 77478
About St. Luke's Health - Sugar Land Hospital - Sugar Land, TX
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load and floating handled day to day?
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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: 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.
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 off-going shift and delegates tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworker's experience, abilities and the patient's 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. Job Requirements*Required Associate's degree in Nursing At least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire and Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire and Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 days
Preferred
Bachelors Of Nursing, upon hire
Where You'll Work
St. Luke's Health–Sugar Land Hospital is a 100 bed facility serving residents of Fort Bend County and Southwest Houston. Our Family Birthing Center provides exceptional care in a spa-like setting, creating a VIP (Very Important Pregnancy) experience for growing families. Since opening in 2008, our dedicated team of physicians, nurses and support staff has proudly delivered expert, compassionate care to our community. Our services range from heart care and neuroscience to robotic surgery.
Pay Range
$35.45 - $55.36 /hour
What's around it?
Sugar Land, TXFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 3% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,957/mo
- Household income
- $136,217/yr, all local households, not nurse pay