Registered Nurse RN - Critical Care ICU

Critical Care Registered Nurse (RN)

Advance your critical care nursing career by joining the elite, high-acuity intensive care team at HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, an award-winning facility recognized with the Healthgrades Critical Care Excellence Award and ranked among America's 250 Best Hospitals. As a Critical Care Registered Nurse (RN), you will practice at the absolute pinnacle of your license, utilizing advanced clinical autonomy across all specialized ICU environments, including our Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU), Neurovascular Intensive Care Unit (Neuro ICU), and Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU). Our multidisciplinary department delivers a comprehensive suite of life-sustaining treatments and procedures, including advanced invasive hemodynamic monitoring, mechanical ventilation, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT), post-coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) recovery, targeted temperature management, and titration of complex vasoactive medications.

Choosing a career here means collaborating directly with board-certified intensivists and neuro-interventionalists in an elite department honored as an HCA Healthcare Unit of Distinction recipient for outstanding nursing metrics. Your practice is fully backed by a hospital holding a five-time consecutive Patient Safety Excellence Award, an "A" Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a provisional adult Level III Trauma Center designation, and national certification as a Primary Stroke Center. Furthermore, we stand as the only hospital in Pasadena recognized by the American College of Cardiology as an accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI and Resuscitation, ensuring your expertise is paired with the highest national standards of emergency and critical care medicine.

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 organization's vision, mission, and values to ensure an outstanding patient experience and positive clinical outcomes.

What you will do in this role:

• Performs procedures, monitoring, or other functions as ordered by the medical provider(s). Documents the administration of care in the patient medical record in a timely and thorough manner.
• Teaches patients/families/caregivers about patient medical condition, patient status, treatment plan, medications and possible side effects, and follow-up measures. Translates complex medical terminology to ensure complete understanding.
• Teaches patients/families/caregivers about any non-medicinal follow-up measures, such as healthy diet and exercise, disease prevention, and/or other lifestyle changes. Prepares patients and families/caregivers for future self-management.
• Manages evidence-based practices and continuous process improvement initiatives to meet and exceed quality measures and enhance the exceptional care provided to patients.
• Manages the quality of care by collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to coordinate, evaluate, customize, and deliver a holistic patient treatment plan that promotes and supports recovery.

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 and ACLS issued from American Heart Association required
• NIH Stroke Scale must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
• 1 year of RN experience in a Critical Care ICU, MICU, SICU, CVICU, Neuro or Trauma in hospital setting required.

Hemodynamic, monitoring, swan, vasoactive drip, titration, ventilation, airway, CRRT, renal, replacement, therapy, temperature, post-arrest cooling, ia care, IABP, intra-aortic, balloon pump, neurological, stroke, NIHSS, critical care rounds

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.

Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing's future.

Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive

HCA Healthcare

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.

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