Registered Nurse RN Ortho Joint Replacement Dept Full Time Days

Fort Worth, Texas

You'll work in a 22-bed ortho department taking elective surgery patients: fractures, hip and knee replacements and spines.

Posted Aug 23

Shift and hours: 7A-7P shifts · 7A-7P Work hours: Full Time (7A-7P) for 36 hrs/week.36 hours a week
Unit and setting: Ortho Joint Replacement department · Hospital Our patient population consists of elective surgeries - ortho fractures, hips and knee replacements and SpinesElective ortho surgery: fractures, hip and knee replacements, spines
License: RN license RN - Registered Nurse Upon Hire Req AndRN license upon hire
Term: Permanent Work hours: Full Time (7A-7P) for 36 hrs/week.Full time

Do you qualify?

License: RN license upon hire RN - Registered Nurse Upon Hire Req And
Certification: BCLS before providing independent patient care, maintained quarterly BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly Req And
Certification: CPI training, maintained annually CPI - Crisis Prevention Intervention Training Maintained Annually 90 Days Req And
Certification: ACLS ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support 90 Days Req
Education: Nursing diploma Nursing Diploma Nursing Req Or
Education: Associate's degree in nursing Associate's Degree Nursing Req Or
Experience: 1 year as an RN, or completion of an RN residency program 1 Year Experience as a Registered Nurse or completion of an RN residency program Req

Preferred

Education: Bachelor's degree in nursing Bachelor's Degree Nursing Pref

What it pays

Benefits

Self-scheduling
Opportunities for educational and career growth

Posted pay in Texas

The role and schedule

Unit size: 22-bed ortho department Fast-Paced, high-volume 22 bed ortho department
Weekends: Weekend requirement Weekend and holiday requirements
Holidays: Holiday requirement
Details: Self-scheduling Self-Scheduling that helps with work/life balance as well as opportunities for educational and career growth

The workplace

Texas Health Resources

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The team behind this role

Nursing leadership

Michele Spieler · Chief Nursing Officer, Texas Health Dallas

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Work location: Texas Health Clearfork, 5400 Clearfork Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76109

Work hours: Full Time (7A-7P) for 36 hrs/week. Weekend and holiday requirements

Department highlights

Self-Scheduling that helps with work/life balance as well as opportunities for educational and career growth

Robust Unit Based Council (UBC) and engaged leadership team

Fast-Paced, high-volume 22 bed ortho department known for its positive culture, great preceptors, teamwork, exceptional customer service and high satisfaction scores! Our patient population consists of elective surgeries – ortho fractures, hips and knee replacements and Spines

Education

Nursing Diploma Nursing Req Or

Associate's Degree Nursing Req Or

Bachelor's Degree Nursing Pref

Experience

1 Year Experience as a Registered Nurse or completion of an RN residency program Req

Licenses and Certifications

RN - Registered Nurse Upon Hire Req And

BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly Req And

CPI - Crisis Prevention Intervention Training Maintained Annually 90 Days Req And

ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support 90 Days Req

Skills

A high degree of confidentiality, positive interpersonal skills, and ability to function in a fast-paced environment.

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What's around it?

In Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth, TXFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about 3% above the US average

Median rent: $1,509/mo
Household income: $79,507/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in Fort Worth, TX

NeighborhoodsNurses and young professionals most often land central: Arlington Heights, Downtown lofts/condos, Fairmount’s Craftsman and Victorian streets off Magnolia Avenue, and TCU-Westcliff/Mistletoe Heights. Reddit locals advise staying central as far south as the TCU area, plus west-central/River Oaks and Camp Bowie. Renter lists also flag West 7th, the Cultural District, Clearfork, and Wedgwood; families and luxury buyers look at Tanglewood, Westcliff, and Rivercrest estates by the Trinity and River Crest Country Club.

Nurses and young professionals most often land central: Arlington Heights, Downtown lofts/condos, Fairmount’s Craftsman and Victorian streets off Magnolia Avenue, and TCU-Westcliff/Mistletoe Heights. Reddit locals advise staying central as far south as the TCU area, plus west-central/River Oaks and Camp Bowie.

Renter lists also flag West 7th, the Cultural District, Clearfork, and Wedgwood; families and luxury buyers look at Tanglewood, Westcliff, and Rivercrest estates by the Trinity and River Crest Country Club.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: reddit.com Source 2: extraspace.com Source 3: viprealtyinfo.com Source 4: apartments.com

Getting aroundCitywide average commute is about 27 minutes, but locals and city guides repeatedly flag heavy traffic and sprawl as the daily tax of growth. Downtown is the transit hub: Trinity Metro buses, Fort Worth Central Station, and the Trinity Railway Express into Dallas; Apartments.com scores downtown walkability 80, transit 50, drivability 70, bikeability 70, with competitive street parking on evenings and weekends. Sources do not map drives to specific hospitals, so hospital-shift timing is not documented here—plan around car dependence outside the core and TRE/bus only if you live and work along those spines.

Citywide average commute is about 27 minutes, but locals and city guides repeatedly flag heavy traffic and sprawl as the daily tax of growth. Downtown is the transit hub: Trinity Metro buses, Fort Worth Central Station, and the Trinity Railway Express into Dallas; Apartments.com scores downtown walkability 80, transit 50, drivability 70, bikeability 70, with competitive street parking on evenings and weekends.

Sources do not map drives to specific hospitals, so hospital-shift timing is not documented here—plan around car dependence outside the core and TRE/bus only if you live and work along those spines.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: extraspace.com Source 2: apartments.com Source 3: youtube.com

OutdoorsThe Trinity River system is the city’s outdoor backbone: Trinity Trails and Trinity Park, with Tanglewood and Overton Park as nearby green add-ons. Fort Worth Botanic Garden (called free and proposal-worthy by locals) and the Fort Worth Zoo (residents often rank it above Dallas and among the state’s best) are the big named attractions; Water Gardens downtown are a day-and-night stop. Westcliff has Foster Park and Bluebonnet Circle. For non-museum, non-bar days, locals also send people indoor climbing at Summit. Stockyards cattle runs are twice daily and function as both spectacle and outdoor street life.

The Trinity River system is the city’s outdoor backbone: Trinity Trails and Trinity Park, with Tanglewood and Overton Park as nearby green add-ons. Fort Worth Botanic Garden (called free and proposal-worthy by locals) and the Fort Worth Zoo (residents often rank it above Dallas and among the state’s best) are the big named attractions; Water Gardens downtown are a day-and-night stop.

Westcliff has Foster Park and Bluebonnet Circle. For non-museum, non-bar days, locals also send people indoor climbing at Summit.

Stockyards cattle runs are twice daily and function as both spectacle and outdoor street life.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: viprealtyinfo.com Source 2: fortworth.com Source 3: quora.com Source 4: reddit.com Source 5: apartments.com

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Fort Worth is still Cowtown in a way Dallas is not: twice-daily cattle runs in the Stockyards, two-stepping at Billy Bob’s Texas, and a Cultural District that actually delivers—the Kimbell and Tadao Ando’s Modern—plus Sundance Square’s free plaza music, Bass Performance Hall, and the Water Gardens. Nurses who want a short, walkable life look at downtown lofts (Trinity Metro and the TRE to Dallas), Arlington Heights and Camp Bowie near museums and Trinity Park, Fairmount off Magnolia Avenue, or TCU-Westcliff. The tradeoffs are not subtle: summer highs over 95°F, a 27-minute average commute that locals say is worsening with sprawl, crime about 49% above the national average and wildly uneven by neighborhood, tornado risk, and public schools that swing from Tanglewood/Westcliff praise to citywide “uneven,” which is why families often shop Aledo, Haslet, Midlothian, or Weatherford. If you want cowboy identity, real museums, and a live-where-you-work core, this is the distinct DFW bet—if you need mild summers or uniform school quality, it is not.

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As of 2026Source 1: fortworth.com Source 2: extraspace.com Source 3: extraspace.com Source 4: viprealtyinfo.com Source 5: apartments.com Source 6: getbellhops.com Source 7: youtube.com

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Fort Worth, TXFrom Census ACS 2024.