Under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse/licensed Nurse, this Job will assist with routine and repetitive patient care activities in a nursing unit. This Job also performs specific clerical, organizational, and patient-focused activities. The patient-focused tasks will be supportive in nature.
Responsibilities
Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
Assists with the admission, transfer, and discharge of patients.
Completes pertinent documents.
Prepares rooms for admission by setting up IV pots, and adjusting bed to the appropriate level.
Assures that all patient belongings accompany the patient to the new unit or home at time of discharge.
Safely transports stable patients as required.
Maintains security/confidentiality when transporting patients and interacting with family and visitors.
Cleans, procures and returns equipment and supplies.
Run errands for the unit as required.
Assist Licensed personnel in providing a safe and comfortable environment at all times; replenish patient room with water, linen, and towels, as appropriate.
Perform unit-specific patient care tasks in accordance with the skills checklist and documents on the flowsheet.
Identify obvious changes in the patient's condition and take responsibility for reporting those changes promptly to the nurse in charge.
Assist with the ordering and maintenance of stock items according to established inventory when needed.
Keeps unit supplies in an organized and orderly fashion.
Respond appropriately to emergencies.
Communicate effectively with other team members during and between shifts.
Responds to phone calls and patient call lights.
Appropriately adapt assigned patient assessment, treatment, and/or care methods to accommodate the unique physical, psychosocial, cultural, age-specific, and other developmental needs of each patient served.
Demonstrates competence to perform assigned patient care responsibilities in a manner that meets the population-specific and developmental needs of patients served by the department.
Job
Requirements
Education/Skills
High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
Experience
Patient care experience in an acute care setting is preferred.
Neighborhoods+Nurses and other relocators are steered first to Pleasant Grove, an in-town Texarkana neighborhood in ZIP 75503 served by Pleasant Grove ISD across about 55 square miles, which realtors treat as the priciest move-up pocket. Facebook locals also name Red Lick, Sugar Hill, and Redwater, citing campuses such as Morriss Elementary. Wake Village is the other frequently compared option, with a different price and setting tradeoff. Reddit threads specifically mention The Pointe Apartments and the neighborhoods beside them, plus Waggoner Creek as a rental community.
Nurses and other relocators are steered first to Pleasant Grove, an in-town Texarkana neighborhood in ZIP 75503 served by Pleasant Grove ISD across about 55 square miles, which realtors treat as the priciest move-up pocket. Facebook locals also name Red Lick, Sugar Hill, and Redwater, citing campuses such as Morriss Elementary.
Wake Village is the other frequently compared option, with a different price and setting tradeoff. Reddit threads specifically mention The Pointe Apartments and the neighborhoods beside them, plus Waggoner Creek as a rental community.
Getting around+Typical one-way commutes are short: U.S. News lists about 13.31 minutes, a moving guide cites 13 minutes, and AR-TX REDI cites 18 minutes. The main hospital employers are CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System and Wadley Regional Medical Center, with additional sites such as Collom & Carney Clinic, Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital, and SignatureCare and Texarkana emergency centers. I-30 is the named highway spine; sources do not describe hospital parking or a bus or rail network, so daily life is a brief drive.
Typical one-way commutes are short: U.S. News lists about 13.31 minutes, a moving guide cites 13 minutes, and AR-TX REDI cites 18 minutes. The main hospital employers are CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System and Wadley Regional Medical Center, with additional sites such as Collom & Carney Clinic, Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital, and SignatureCare and Texarkana emergency centers.
I-30 is the named highway spine; sources do not describe hospital parking or a bus or rail network, so daily life is a brief drive.
Outdoors+Spring Lake Park is the go-to green space for a lake, walking trails, playgrounds, and picnics; Bringle Lake Park adds fishing, playgrounds, mountain-biking trails, and a walking/running path. On the Arkansas side, Bobby Ferguson Park has a walking trail, playground, and fishing lake, Jefferson Park has a PetSafe dog park and amphitheater, and the Ermer Dansby Pondexter Sports Complex offers sports fields and open green space. Summer centers on Big Dam Waterpark; golfers use Texarkana Golf Ranch; anglers drive to Millwood State Park for bass fishing; 67 Speedway runs race nights.
Spring Lake Park is the go-to green space for a lake, walking trails, playgrounds, and picnics; Bringle Lake Park adds fishing, playgrounds, mountain-biking trails, and a walking/running path. On the Arkansas side, Bobby Ferguson Park has a walking trail, playground, and fishing lake, Jefferson Park has a PetSafe dog park and amphitheater, and the Ermer Dansby Pondexter Sports Complex offers sports fields and open green space.
Summer centers on Big Dam Waterpark; golfers use Texarkana Golf Ranch; anglers drive to Millwood State Park for bass fishing; 67 Speedway runs race nights.
Check the commute at your shift’s start and end, upfront housing costs, and whether moving assistance must be repaid if you leave.
Living in Texarkana
Texarkana is a dual-state city on I-30, famous for the Post Office that sits on the Texas-Arkansas line, with CHRISTUS St. Michael and Wadley Regional as the core hospital employers. Relocating nurses typically look first at Pleasant Grove in ZIP 75503, the in-town, higher-priced pocket served by Pleasant Grove ISD and Morriss Elementary, or at Red Lick, Redwater, Sugar Hill, and Wake Village for more space at lower tiers. The Pointe Apartments and Waggoner Creek are the complexes locals name. Commutes average roughly 13 to 18 minutes by car. Housing is inexpensive by national standards: citywide median values in the mid-$150ks, while 75503 sales ran a Redfin median of $296,750 in February 2026. Life outside work is Spring Lake Park and Bringle Lake Park (trails, fishing, mountain biking), the 1924 Perot Theatre, Rail Yard Entertainment District, Naaman's BBQ, Zapata's, and festivals such as Dine on the Line. Honest tradeoffs: Reddit voices warn of drugs, crime, and segregation unless you live on the nicer side of town, and the cultural calendar is small-city, not Dallas. Dallas itself is about 180 miles away.