Registered Nurse RN - Skilled Nursing Facility SNF

Work Schedule: 3 days per week, 7a-7p/Rotating Weekends

Advance your continuum-of-care nursing practice by joining the dedicated post-acute team at HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast and HCA Houston Rehabilitation Hospital Southeast, an award-winning care network ranked by Healthgrades among America’s 250 Best Hospitals™. As a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) and Rehabilitation Registered Nurse (RN), you will practice with a high degree of clinical autonomy, managing long-term recovery plans and guiding patients safely from acute hospital stays back toward independence. Operating within our specialized, multi-disciplinary framework, you will direct and deliver essential post-acute treatments and procedures, including complex wound care management, long-term intravenous (IV) therapy, multi-system medical stabilization, post-stroke neurological recovery, and comprehensive physical, occupational, and speech therapy plan integration.

Choosing a career within this vital service line means collaborating with board-certified rehabilitation physicians and case managers in an organization recognized for exceptional bedside nursing standards. Your care will be backed by a facility holding a five-time consecutive Patient Safety Excellence Award™ from Healthgrades and an "A" Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, alongside elite national Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit of Distinction performance benchmarks within the HCA Healthcare network. By merging clinical precision with compassionate, long-term restorative care, you will champion patient safety and health optimization for residents across Pasadena and southeast Harris County.

Job Summary and Qualifications

As 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:

• Assists with admission and discharge processes to ensure efficient throughput and high quality, patient-centered care.
• Participates in the ongoing assessment of the quality of patient care services provided in the unit, in collaboration with other members of the management team.
• Collaborates with subject matter experts and other managers to create an environment of teamwork that supports improved outcomes and service.
• Supports a patient-first philosophy and engages in service recovery when necessary.
• Supports the efforts of the facility to improve engagement by operationalizing current nursing strategies, including employee rounding, hourly rounds, and other initiatives.
• Provides recommendations related to interviewing, selecting, and training new staff. Recommends and implements courses of action, including training and development, conflict resolution, personnel policy compliance, completion of performance evaluations, and/or disciplinary actions to ensure a competitively better organization.
• Assists with staff scheduling. Manages all practical aspects of staff labor in accordance with patient care needs and established productivity guidelines.
• Supports proper inventory control and assists with managing supplies and equipment.

What qualifications you will need:

• Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree registered nursing program.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing 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 issued from American Heart Association required
• 1 year of RN experience in a Rehab, Skilled Nursing setting is required.

Geriatric, LTC, long-term care, sub-acute rehab, RAI, resident assessment instrument, MDS, ADL, activities of daily living, restorative, memory, dementia, complex wound care, G-tube, J-tube, enteral nutrition, IV, intravenous, PICC lines, catheter, ostomy, stoma, respiratory, tracheostomy, oxygen therapy, polypharmacy, narcotic, controlled substance, CMS, state survey readiness, IPCP, infection control, prevention, incident reporting, MDS, coding, IDT, interdisciplinary, fall prevention, skin integrity, pressure ulcer, palliative, hospice, end-of-life, RAC-CT, WCC, WOCN, GCCN

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

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.

"Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing’s future."

Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive

HCA Healthcare

If growth and continued learning is important to you, we encourage you to apply for our Registered Nurse Skilled Nursing opening. Our team will promptly review your application. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities apply today!