Work Schedule: 3 days per week, Mixed/Rotating Weekends
Location: HCA Houston ER 24/7 – North Channel - 6191 E Sam Houston Pkwy N., Houston TX 77049
Elevate your emergency nursing career with a unique blend of high-acuity autonomy and community-focused care as a Freestanding ER Registered Nurse (RN) at HCA Houston ER 24/7 - North Channel. Operating as a full-service, 24/7 department of HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, our North Channel facility delivers top-tier adult and pediatric emergency care to the East Houston community without the bottleneck of a traditional, crowded hospital campus. In this dynamic role, you will practice at the top of your license, utilizing your critical thinking and rapid-assessment skills to manage diverse emergency populations with on-site access to advanced digital imaging, a full-service laboratory, and rapid, direct-admission pathways into our partner acute-care hospitals. We empower our nurses with a streamlined workflow, competitive premium pay, comprehensive medical benefits, and tuition assistance, giving you the ultimate setting to make a direct impact right in your local East Houston neighborhood.
Job Summary and QualificationsAs a Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, patient-centered care in line with the requirements of the department and the standards of practice for the relevant state and specialty. Collaborating with medical providers and the care team, you will provide personalized, comprehensive, and compassionate care, following established nursing models such as "Assess, Perform, Teach, and Manage." You will also act as an advocate for patients, families, and caregivers, embodying the organizations vision, mission, and values to ensure an outstanding patient experience and positive clinical outcomes.
What you will do in this role:
- Assesses patient pain regularly to promote effective pain management, including reassessments after appropriate intervention.
- Performs procedures, monitoring, or other functions as ordered by the medical provider(s). Documents the administration of care in the patient medical record in a timely and thorough manner.
- Performs exceptional care by responding promptly to patient requests. Strives to anticipate patient needs and resolve them proactively.
- Teaches patients/families/caregivers about patient medical condition, patient status, treatment plan, medications and possible side effects, and follow-up measures. Translates complex medical terminology to ensure complete understanding.
- Teaches patients/families/caregivers about any non-medicinal follow-up measures, such as healthy diet and exercise, disease prevention, and/or other lifestyle changes. Prepares patients and families/caregivers for future self-management.
What qualifications you will need:
- Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing is required. BSN is preferred.
- Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RN License within 90 days of hire date).
- Current BLS, ACLS, and PALS Certification are required.
- NIH Stroke Scale must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
- Trauma Nursing Core Course must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
- 1 year of RN working experience in freestanding ER or hospital ER required.
Level I, Level II, Level II, Trauma Care, Emergency Department, Triage, ESI scoring, Rapid response, critical care, mass casualty, surge capacity, decontamination, airway, intubation, defibrillation, cardioversion, chest tube, central line, arterial, intraosseous, IO, focused assessment with sonography for trauma, FAST, massive transfusion, MTP, continuous cardiac, hemodynamic, monitoring, stroke, NIHSS, STEMI, ST-elevation myocardial infarction, sepsis, SANE, sexual assault, psychiatric, crisis intervention, CPI, overdose, toxicology, vasoactive, infusion, titration, tPA, TNK, thrombolytic, RSI, pyxis, Omnicell, ENPC, CEN, ED, freestanding, emergency department, FSED, FSER, adults, pediatrics, triage, rapid, on-site labs, diagnostic imaging, critical care, family care, continuum care
Benefits
HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast is a full-service 340+ bed acute care hospital in Pasadena, Texas. We have been a leader of medical care in Pasadena for more than 50 years. With board-certified physicians, registered nurses and expert technicians, the community has come to rely on us for top-quality, comprehensive and compassionate healthcare. HCA Houston Southeast is the only hospital in Pasadena with both Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Primary PCI and Resuscitation by the American College of Cardiology and full accreditation by The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
Be a part of an organization that leverages our size to make a real impact in our industry! Our Talent Acquisition team is reviewing applications for our Registered Nurse Emergency opening. Submit your application today and help advance the practice of nursing.
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