Registered Nurse ICU

Introduction

Do you have the career opportunities as a(an) Registered Nurse ICU you want in your current role? We invest in what matters most to nurses like you - at home, at work, and at every stage in your career. We have an exciting opportunity for you to join HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland which is a part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.

• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.

• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing

• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock

• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.

• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more

• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts

• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships

• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)

• Colleague recognition program

• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)

• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Do you want to work where you have a voice? Nurses are at the forefront of our commitment to the care and improvement of human life. At HCA Healthcare, there are many ways for nurses to have a voice through professional practice councils, advisory councils, vital voices surveys, and units of distinction. We learn from our multi-generational nursing family. We partner with our Nurses at HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland!

Job Summary and Qualifications

We are seeking a (RN) ICU for our facility to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and we are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply now!

POSITION RESPONSIBILITY:

• Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for assigned patients.

• Responsible for meeting the Standards of Practice for the Neuro Trauma Intensive Care Unit and managing all assigned personnel, supplies, and equipment.

• Participates in activities to plan, measure, assess and improve the quality of patient care.

• Responds to Code Blue and implements life-saving measures, per ACLS protocol.

• Interprets EKG rhythm strips and evaluates 12-lead EKG'

• Monitors and titrates IV vasoactive, antiarrhythmic and other special drugs, as per physician order.

• Assesses patients in an on-going manner, per patient acuity.

• Assists physician with procedures, as needed (i.e., thoracentesis, chest tube insertion, and venous access devices).

• Assumes the responsibility of charging the unit, as needed.

• Responsible for assessment of patient with telemetry monitoring and/or continuous pulse oximeter.

• Responsible for maintaining customer friendly atmosphere.

• Draws blood from arterial, CVP and other invasive lines.

• Responds in a customer friendly atmosphere.

• Answers call lights, performs hourly rounding and documentation of via initials.

• Responsible for physical appearance of the nursing unit including POU, Storage area, and lounge.

• Models and reinforces behavior consistent with goals for teaching the patient, communicates patient status to appropriate member of the healthcare team, and provides support to the family, as needed.

• Scanning supplies from P.O.U. area.

• Responsible for ensuring Through-Put Plan is enforced and followed.

• Responsible for scanning patient armbands and administering medications via E-MAR.

• Responsible for entering orders via Order Management in computer and following CPOE orders.

• Responsible for ensuring core measure patients are identified and protocols followed.

• Responsible for maintaining patient safety goals

• Monitors invasive pressures.

• Assesses critically ill patients on an ongoing manner, per P&P.

• Accompanies and monitors patients going to other department for tests/procedures.

• May accompany patients in transport during inter-facility transfers.

• Assumes the responsibility of charging the unit as needed.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• 1 year ICU experience Required.

• Current Texas or compact state licensure with State Board of Nurse Examiners.

• Current BCLS certification from the American Heart Association required.

• ACLS certification within six months of hire.

• CCRN certification within two years of hire preferred.

• NIHSS certification within three months of hire, unless currently certified then needs to be maintained every two years.

• 8 hours of acute stroke education annually.

As the first hospital in Pearland, Texas, HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland is proud to provide healthcare resources to the south Houston communities. Our 50+ bed hospital isn't just a neighborhood hospital, but we are an exceptional full-service hospital that happens to be in your neighborhood. Our hospital provides expert emergency care, breast cancer screening, and cardiology services. Our emergency department provides fast and effective care, our women's diagnostic imaging center provides full-service mammogram procedures, including diagnostic and 3D mammograms, for effective breast cancer screening, and our cardiology team is home to some of the top Houston cardiologists. HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland aspires to connect with each one of our patients to build a network of caring individuals. 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.

"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our Registered Nurse ICU opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.