We are searching for a Nightshift Pediatric Registered Nurse (RN) for our Float Team - someone who works well in a fast-paced hospital setting. In this position you’ll provide quality nursing care to patients by assessing, planning, educating, implementing, and evaluating age-appropriate care in a manner that incorporates family centered principles and cost-effective care.
Think you’ve got what it takes?
There are three teams within our Float Pool we are hiring for:
- Flex Team: floats to All ICU floors, All Acute Care floors and the EC.
- Acute Care Team: floats to all Acute Care Floors
- Critical Care Team: floats to all ICU floors, inclusive of EC, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Adult Congenital Heart.
Acute Care -
- General Med/Surg Transplant
- Surgical/Ortho
- Rehab
- Neuro
- Pulmonary/Endo/Adolescents
- PHMU
- CPCU
- Cancer Center
Critical Care –
- CICU (3 floors)
- PICU (4 floors)
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- NICU (3 different levels)
- EC
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease
*Preferred 2 years EC and/or ICU RN experience
*Pediatric experience preferred
Shift: Nights 7p-7a (Full & Part time available)
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing, associate’s degree, or technical diploma in nursing with acceptance or current enrollment in a BSN program and signed agreement or an associate’s degree in a related field accepted by the Texas Board of Nursing for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining an RN license required or must be currently enrolled in a nursing bridge program working toward an MSN with a verified BSN-equivalency or a signed agreement.
- 9 months professional nursing experience (required)
- RN License by Texas Board of Nursing or Nurse License Compact
- CPR – Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association
- The ability to demonstrate positive and appropriate interpersonal skills, good time and resource management skills, flexibility, strong oral and written communication skills, knowledge of unit-specific equipment, and knowledge of the nursing process, critical thinking skills, PALS, and interdisciplinary collaboration
As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.
Responsibilities:
- Performs and documents assessment of the patient/family including biophysical, psychosocial, developmental (age-appropriate), culture, spiritual, and environmental needs in an organized and systematic manner
- Analyzes situations, anticipates potential problems, and detects changes in patient status
- Re-prioritizes and updates plan of care based on new information and changes to the patient’s condition; communicates this information to other health care team members and documents in the medical record
- Participates in interdisciplinary rounds and/or patient care conferences and documents in the medical record
