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Baylor St Luke's Medical Center

Houston, Texas

$35.45–$55.36/hr

About $74k–$115k/yr

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Last seen active Aug 9, 2026

What this might mean for you

Baylor St Luke's Medical Center is hiring for its own floors — no agency between you and the manager. The posted pay pencils out to roughly $74k–$115k a year. It's a night shift — quieter halls, a tighter crew, and your daylight hours back.

What the posting states

Shift
Nights

About this role

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Job Summary and Responsibilities 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. ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 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

Skills for this role

Patient assessment (admission and ongoing)Care plan design, evaluation, and documentationMedication safety practicesPatient safety initiatives and protocolsBedside shift reportPreoperative patient preparationTransitional care planningPatient/family teaching and educationInterdisciplinary team collaborationCritical thinkingPsychological and emotional supportPatient progress monitoring

Certifications

BLSACLS

Requirements

  • TX RN License
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing
  • 1 year of RN experience
  • Registered Nurse: TX license upon hire
  • Basic Life Support - CPR within 14 days
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 6 months
  • Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire

About the employer

Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
Hospital

You would be joining Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston’s Texas Medical Center (77030). The facts on hand do not yet spell out unit culture, ratios, pay ranges, or residency details, so your first practical questions are about commute…

What reviewers appreciate

  • No state income tax in Texas
  • Compact-license state, simpler for eligible RNs
  • Houston cost of living about 1% below the national level

What reviewers flag

  • Houston traffic makes commute length a primary daily constraint
  • Nurses often need to keep drives near or under about 15 minutes
  • No validated pay, ratio, scheduling, or residency detail available yet to compare against neighbors
Medical Centercommute-conscioussuburban housing optionscompact-license stateno state income taxlarge-campus setting

Living in Houston, TX

Houston is a sprawling, diverse metro where world-class medical centers anchor a booming healthcare economy. The nation's fourth-largest city offers no state income tax, year-round warmth, and a food scene as varied as its population. Bayou-side greenways and museum districts balance the urban energy for nurses seeking opportunity in a place that never stops growing.

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Metro price level · Houston area
98.6
1% below the national average
Median gross rent
$1,361/mo
rent and tenant-paid utilities

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  • Can you walk me through the 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, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
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