Registered Nurse- Homeless Healthcare
Austin, Texas
- Eligibility
- RN
Posted Jul 21
What the listing says
Role
- Term
- Permanent
- On the floor
- Charge shifts · Precepting expected
- Setting
- Clinic
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 2+ years
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Similar roles post
- Similar TX staff roles post $33/hr to $47/hr
TX staff postings that state pay run $25/hr to $60/hr, the middle half $33/hr to $47/hr, across 910 postings.
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Requirements
- RN
- for continuing education and best practices. Identifies, in collaboration with Charge Nurse, supports and participates in quality strategies in collaboration from Charge Nurse to evaluate compliance with evidence-based guidelines, standards, and to identify opportunities to improve patient outcomes. Ensure all tasks provided and associated with patient care, patient administrative processes and related duties comply with all regulatory and accreditation standards including The Joint Commission and CommUnityCare Standard Operating Procedures and CommUnityCare Policies and Procedures. Act as the site lead in the absence of the Nurse Manager Operations and/or Practice Leader. Daily/weekly quality assurance checklist to include delegation of tasks as appropriate to staff (Rider report, class D, McKesson, CLIA, AED, equipment checks) Ensures state vaccine (VFC/ASN) policies are being followed. Attends all clinic codes. Patient triage as needed. Performs periodic chart audits. De-escalation of crisis situations by seeking guidance of supportive personnel. Perform other duties as assigned.
Place
- City
- Austin, Texas
- Median rent
- $1,729/mo
- Local household income
- $93,658/yr
- Metro price level
- 2% below the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Austin area index 98.1, where 100 is the national average.
Austin blends Barton Springs' year-round cold water with East Sixth taco trucks and South Congress honky-tonks. For an RN, Texas brings no state income tax, and the cost of living sits about 2% below the national average — meaning your nursing paycheck stretches further in a city that lives outdoors and loud.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
How this role fits you
About the employer
You would practice in CommUnityCare’s community clinics across the Austin area—a nonprofit FQHC that delivers primary medical care, behavioral health, dental, women’s health, pharmacy, Healthcare for the Homeless, HIV prevention, and specialty services, in partnership with Central Health. Care is…
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