Registered Nurse (RN) Float Pool Critical Care (ICU) Nights
Houston, Texas
You'll float to all the ICU floors, plus the EC, Bone Marrow Transplant and Adult Congenital Heart.
Posted Aug 18 · 9 months of experience
- Shift and hours
- Nights, 7p-7a · 7p-7a shifts Shift: Nights 7p-7a (Full & Part time available)
- Unit and setting
- CICU, 3 floors · Hospital CICU (3 floors)
- License
- RN license RN License by Texas Board of Nursing or Nurse License CompactRN license from the Texas Board of Nursing or Nurse License Compact
- Term
- Permanent Shift: Nights 7p-7a (Full & Part time available)Full-time or part-time available
Do you qualify?
- License
- RN license from the Texas Board of Nursing or Nurse License Compact RN License by Texas Board of Nursing or Nurse License Compact Check your license
- Certification
- BLS from the American Heart Association CPR - Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association
- Experience
- 9 months professional nursing experience 9 months professional nursing experience (required)
- Also asks
- PALS knowledge
- Also asks
- Respiratory fit testing all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.
Preferred
- Experience
- 2 years EC and/or ICU RN experience *Preferred 2 years EC and/or ICU RN experience
- Experience
- Pediatric experience *Pediatric experience preferred
The role and schedule
- Floating
- Critical Care team floats to ICU floors, EC, BMT and Adult Congenital Heart Critical Care Team: floats to all ICU floors, inclusive of EC, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Adult Congenital Heart.
- Floating
- Flex team floats to all ICU floors, all acute care floors and the EC Flex Team: floats to All ICU floors, All Acute Care floors and the EC.
- Unit
- PICU, 4 floors PICU (4 floors)
- Unit
- NICU, 3 levels NICU (3 different levels)
- Unit
- Bone Marrow Transplant Bone Marrow Transplant
- Unit
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease Adult Congenital Heart Disease
- Hours stated
- Nights 7p-7a (Full & Part time available)
The workplace
Your fit
Questions to ask
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load and staffing support handled day to day?
On your path
ICU / Critical Care is a specialty you move into. The classic route: base year, then transfer in.
Original listing
Posted on Texas Children's Hospital’s careers page.
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We are searching for a Nightshift Pediatric Registered Nurse (RN) for our Float Team - someone who works well in a fast-paced hospital setting. In this position you’ll provide quality nursing care to patients by assessing, planning, educating, implementing, and evaluating age-appropriate care in a manner that incorporates family centered principles and cost-effective care. Think you’ve got what it takes?
There are two teams within our Float Pool we are hiring for
Flex Team: floats to All ICU floors, All Acute Care floors and the EC. Critical Care Team: floats to all ICU floors, inclusive of EC, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Adult Congenital Heart. Acute Care -
- General Med/Surg Transplant
- Surgical/Ortho
- Rehab
- Neuro
- Pulmonary/Endo/Adolescents
- PHMU
- CPCU
- Cancer Center
Critical Care –
- CICU (3 floors)
- PICU (4 floors)
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- NICU (3 different levels)
- EC
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease
- *Preferred 2 years EC and/or ICU RN experience
- *Pediatric experience preferred
- Shift: Nights 7p-7a (Full & Part time available)
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing, associate’s degree, or technical diploma in nursing with acceptance or current enrollment in a BSN program and signed agreement or an associate’s degree in a related field accepted by the Texas Board of Nursing for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining an RN license required or must be currently enrolled in a nursing bridge program working toward an MSN with a verified BSN-equivalency or a signed agreement.
- 9 months professional nursing experience (required)
- RN License by Texas Board of Nursing or Nurse License Compact
- CPR – Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association
- The ability to demonstrate positive and appropriate interpersonal skills, good time and resource management skills, flexibility, strong oral and written communication skills, knowledge of unit-specific equipment, and knowledge of the nursing process, critical thinking skills, PALS, and interdisciplinary collaboration
As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.
Responsibilities
- Performs and documents assessment of the patient/family including biophysical, psychosocial, developmental (age-appropriate), culture, spiritual, and environmental needs in an organized and systematic manner
- Analyzes situations, anticipates potential problems, and detects changes in patient status
- Re-prioritizes and updates plan of care based on new information and changes to the patient’s condition; communicates this information to other health care team members and documents in the medical record
- Participates in interdisciplinary rounds and/or patient care conferences and documents in the medical record
What's around it?
Houston, TXFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about the same as the US average
- Median rent
- $1,361/mo
- Household income
- $64,813/yr, all local households, not nurse pay