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Registered Nurse (RN) - Med Surg - $30-42 per hour

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General

Posted Jun 18

Shift
12-hour 12 hour
Hours a week
36
Unit
Med-Surg

What the listing says

Role

Schedule
12-hour 12 hour · 36 hours
Term
Permanent
Setting
Hospital
Accepts
RN

Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.

Pay

Against the board
$19/hr below the median
This role$30/hr
General in Texas$49/hr

The median for General in Texas is $49/hr, across 43 postings.

About this role

Baptist Health System - San Antonio TX is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Med Surg for a nursing job in Harlingen, Texas.

Job Description & Requirements

  • Specialty: Med Surg
  • Discipline: RN
  • Duration: Ongoing
  • 36 hours per week
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  • Shift: 12 hours
  • Employment Type: Staff

This position may qualify for a sign-on bonus

This role provides direct clinical patient care. The role will assume responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing direct clinical care to assigned patients on a per shift basis, and unit level. The role is responsible for supervision of staff to which appropriate care is delegated. The role is accountable to support CNO to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care.

  • The RN provides high-quality, safe, cost-effective, total nursing care to all patients.
  • The RN assumes responsibility for overall coordination and integration of patient care based on the nursing process.
  • The RN directs care according to established standards of safety, risk management, QI, and Infection Control, with the goal being to discharge the patient with an optimum level of care provided.
  • Assumes responsibility for coordination and planning of patient care within the prescribed medical regime.
  • Administers all medications safely and in a timely manner per hospital policy.
  • Performs and fulfills all HICS (hospital incident command system) responsibilities, assignments, tasks, and roles as directed and needed by the facility in times of emergency and/or disaster.
  • Responsible for knowing the Hospital’s emergency codes, including the purpose and appropriate action for each, and adheres to the Hospital policies and procedures for each emergency code.

Minimum Requirements

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Education

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.

  • License &

Certifications

Currently licensed, certified, or registered to practice profession as required by law, regulation in state of practice or policy; AHA BLS, and if applicable by corporate policy for unit of hire, AHA ACLS and/or PALS and/or NRP.

Preferred Requirements

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Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Nursing.

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Experience

Recent acute care experience.

Baptist Health System - San Antonio Job ID #2603009576. Posted job title: Registered Nurse (RN) - Med Surg

Benefits

  • Health Care FSA
  • Dependent Care FSA
  • Life insurance

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Requirements

  • *
  • Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
  • License &
  • Currently licensed, certified, or registered to practice profession as required by law, regulation in state of practice or policy; AHA BLS, and if applicable by corporate policy for unit of hire, AHA ACLS and/or PALS and/or NRP.
  • Preferred Requirements: *
  • Preferred Requirements: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Nursing.
  • Preferred Requirements: Recent acute care experience.
  • Preferred Requirements: Baptist Health System - San Antonio Job ID #2603009576. Posted job title: Registered Nurse (RN) - Med Surg

Benefits

  • Sign-on bonus

Place

City
Harlingen, TX
Rent against this pay
20% of monthly gross
This role$928/mo rent
Monthly gross$4,680/mo

$928 median rent against $4,680 a month at $30/hr for 36 hours a week, before tax.

Local household income
$53,645/yr

all local households, not nurse pay

Metro price level
14% below the national average

Harlingen area index 86.0, where 100 is the national average.

Address
2121 Pease St Ste 600, Harlingen, TX 78550, USA

Harlingen sits in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley, offering a warm South Texas climate and easy access to Gulf Coast beaches like South Padre Island. This mid-sized border-region city blends affordable suburban living with a growing healthcare sector, making it a practical landing spot for traveling nurses seeking year-round sunshine and a bilingual, bicultural community.

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Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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Baptist Health System operates in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, with facilities identified as Valley Baptist - Harlingen and Valley Baptist - Brownsville. The system is recruiting Registered Nurses for Med Surg units in Harlingen, offering ongoing staff positions…

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Med surg is open from year one. A broad first base while you learn which path pulls harder.

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