BrightStar Care is offering the opportunity to join our team as an LVN or RN working PRN with our home care clients and curating your own schedule!
BrightStar Care is seeking a Licensed Vocational Nurse or Registered Nurse to care for our patients and facilitate their speedy recovery. You will be responsible for educating them and their families on prevention and healthy habits. The ideal candidate will be a responsible and well-trained professional able to give the best nursing care with little supervision. You will be able to follow health and safety guidelines faithfully and consistently. The goal is to promote patient’s well-being by providing high quality nursing care.
Benefits of becoming a Licensed Vocational Nurse or Registered Nurse with BrightStar Care:
- Location: Southeast and Southwest Houston Area
- Competitive pay starts at $35 per hour for LVNs and $50 per hour for RNs
- Weekly pay via direct deposit
- Flexible schedule - We will work with you to curate a schedule to fit your lifestyle!
- PRN shifts available
- Employee referral bonus
- All Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is provided at no cost
- Mobile technology to access schedule and case documentation
- Exclusive BrightStar Care Employee Discount Programs
We strongly live our value of a work-life balance by providing our employees with the following:
- We offer flexible work schedules on a variety of assignments, procedures, and treatments
- Weekend and evening opportunities
Responsibilities
- Administer wound care based on physician orders
- Provide thoughtful care to client & patients based on Plan of Care
- Proactively updated client/patients’ family on plan of care, health changes, and concerns
- Ability to present and prevent and identify infections
- Administer medications as prescribed
- Provide infusion therapy
- Ability to preform sterile procedures such as PICC line dressing changes
- Train patients on self administered meds
- Perform assessments to determine need for care
- Monitor patient’s condition and assess their needs to provide the best possible care and advice
- Provide instant medical care in emergencies
- Foster a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families
- Perform weekly reassessments on our PT/OT clients
Skills:
- Proven experience as a registered nurse or licensed vocational nurse
- Excellent knowledge of nursing care methods and procedures
- Excellent knowledge of emergency care
- In-depth knowledge of health and safety guidelines and procedures (sanitation, decontamination etc.) and willingness to follow them at all times
- A team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Responsible and compassionate
- Outstanding organizational and multi-tasking skills
- Patient with excellent problem-solving skills
Requirements:
- Not currently requiring COVID-19 vaccination
- Current unrestricted RN or LVN license in state of Texas
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
- Certified CPR and negative TB skin test or chest x-ray
- Minimum one (1) year of documented experience required in a home health agency
- Possess exceptional nursing assessment skills
- Analytic/Critical thinker.
- Licensed driver with valid automobile insurance
- Ability to work on weekends, nights and holidays
- Reliable transportation
- Must be able to stand walk, squat, bend, kneel, reach, twist, push and pull. Varied assistance is required depending on the mobility of the client. Must be able to lift up to 50 pound
BrightStar Care of Friendswood is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
Pay: $35.00 - $50.00 per hour
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Work Location: In person
