Registered Nurse Pediatric Flex Team

We are searching for a Pediatric Registered Nurse for our Flex 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. We need someone who can collect and analyze data from the medical record to coordinate patient care.

Think you’ve got what it takes?

** Will float to all ICU, Acute Care, and EC**

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: Days 7a-7p

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