Registered Nurse RN - Neonatal ICU NICU

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

Advance your neonatal nursing career by joining the dedicated maternal-infant team at HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, an award-winning facility recognized by Healthgrades among Americas 250 Best Hospitals™ and a recipient of the Patient Safety Excellence Award™. As a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Registered Nurse (RN), you will deliver highly specialized, life-saving care within our state-designated Level III NICU, which provides comprehensive, 24/7 advanced critical care to premature infants and high-risk newborns of all gestational ages. Backed by 24/7 dedicated OB hospitalist coverage and an accredited Chest Pain Center with Resuscitation, our multidisciplinary team blends clinical excellence with specialized respiratory and neonatal therapies. Choosing a career here means practicing with an elite team honored locally by the Houston Business Journal and Modern Healthcare as a top place to work, all within a parent network recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the Worlds Most Ethical Companies®.

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:

• Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for assigned patients in the NICU and Newborn Nursery.
• Participates in the development and implementation of policies and procedures or the NICU that guide and support the provision of services
• Responsible for meeting the standards of Practice for a Level II and Level III NICU and managing all assigned personnel, supplies and equipment.
• Participates in activities to plan, measure, assess and improve the quality of patient care.
• Performs neonatal assessment of NICU patients and Newborn Nursery patients.
• Performs nursing care of NICU patients and Newborn Nursery patients.
• Performs gestational age assessments.
• Demonstrates appropriate usage and understanding of equipment used in the department.
• Participates in mandatory unit education activities
• Participates in the discharge process to include parent teaching

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
• Neonate Resuscitate Program (NRP)
• 1 year of clinical experience as a licensed RN in an acute hospital Level II NICU required.

Level III, Level II, Level IV, NRP, Neonatal Resuscitation, STABLE, CPAP, HFOV, High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation, Nitric Oxide Therapy, Therapeutic Hypothermia, whole body cooling, UVC, UAC, umbilical lines management, PICC line, micro-preemies, micro-premature infant care, ELBW, extremely low birth weight, VLBW, very low birth weight, NAS, neonatal abstinence syndrome, PPHN, persistent pulmonary hypertension, MAS, meconium aspiration syndrome, cue-based feeding kangaroo care, TPN, total parenteral nutrition, surfactant, scoring, gestational, pain assessment, NIPS, CRIES, radiant warmer, family-centered, lactation, breastfeeding, RNC-NIC

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 NICU opening. Submit your application today and help advance the practice of nursing.