Progressive Care Nurse
St Luke's Health - Memorial - Lufkin
Lufkin, Texas
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.
- Eligibility
- ICU Nurse
Posted Sep 11
- Shift and hours
- Days36 hours a week
- Unit and setting
- Critical Care Step Down · Hospital
- License
- RN license 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.
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- License
- Registered Nurse (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.
- Also asks
- assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset 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.
What it pays
- Against similar roles
- Below most Texas staff postingsTexas staff postings that state pay run $28/hr to $60/hr, the middle half $35/hr to $48/hr, across 1,592 postings.
- Tuition assistance
- tuition reimbursement
Benefits
- Benefitsmedical, prescription drug, dental, vision plansmedical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans
- Benefitslife insurancelife insurance
- Benefitspaid time off (minimum of 14 days annually)paid time off (minimum of 14 days annually)
- Benefitstuition reimbursementtuition reimbursement
- Benefitsretirement plan benefits including 401(k), 403(b)retirement plan benefits including 401(k), 403(b)
The role and schedule
- Charge
- Charge shifts are part of the role
- Day to day
- admission and ongoing assessment of patient condition, meeting holistic needs, and notifying doctor of changes
- Day to day
- formulates, directs, evaluates, and documents care plan, patient/family teaching, and discharge transitions
- Day to day
- prepares patients for treatments and procedures, reports changes to charge nurse/physician, and implements safety protocols
- Day to day
- reassesses patients after interventions, notifies physician to adjust interventions, and modifies care
- Day to day
- gives and receives bedside shift report with family participation and delegates tasks
- Day to day
- maintains safe environment, removes soiled equipment/linen, incorporates quality goals, and reports hazard concerns
- Hours stated
- 72 hours/pay period
The workplace
Your fit
Questions to ask
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
On your path
Telemetry One of the most open front doors in acute care; ACLS and rhythm.
Original listing
Posted on St Luke's Health - Memorial - Lufkin’s careers page.
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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.
What's around it?
Lufkin, TXFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 3% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,079/mo
- Household income
- $57,048/yr, all local households, not nurse pay