Med Surg Nurse

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse (RN) you will be a pivotal healthcare professional delivering compassionate high-quality care that truly impacts our patients well-being and recovery.

Every day you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized comprehensive care making critical assessments performing skilled procedures and meticulously implementing patient care plans. Youll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role you will possess keen assessment skills acute critical thinking and a patient-first mindset driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Assessment: Does admission and ongoing assessment of patients condition. Provides nursing care to meet the patients physical psychological and spiritual needs. Notifies doctor of changes in assessment that require attention.
• Planning: Designs directs evaluates and documents the plan of care patient/family teaching and the transition of care plan to include a safe appropriate level of care discharge. Works with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs. Formulates a plan of care and daily goals that takes into consideration the individualized needs of the patient.
• Implementation: Prepares patients physically psychologically and spiritually for treatments surgeries and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety. Knows patients conditions and reports significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader and/or physician. Implements patient safety initiative and protocols including medication safety practices physician orders consult notifications.
• Evaluation: Reassesses patients at appropriate intervals following interventions. Notifies physician as necessary to modify interventions. Adjusts nursing care to meet patients emerging and changing needs.
• Report Skills: Gives and receives report using Bedside Shift Report including family participation. Provides an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care. Receives report from off-going shift and delegates tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworkers experience abilities and the patients acuity.
• Environment & Patient Safety: Maintains patient and work environment to maximize safe working space. Promptly removes all used and soiled equipment linen etc. to appropriate location. Incorporates national and organizational goals to improve quality patient safety and satisfaction. Reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.

Job Requirements

• At least one (1) year of RN experience upon hire and
• Associate Of Nursing upon hire or
• Registered Nurse: TX upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR within 14 - days

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Nursing upon hire

Where Youll Work

St. Lukes Health Memorial Lufkin is a 279 bed facility and member of CommonSpirit Health a national nonprofit health system. Serving East Texas St. Lukes Health-Memorial Lufkin provides more than a quarter of a million patient services annually and contributes millions of dollars in local charity care and community support. Were the areas first Joint Commission Certified Primary Stroke Center with board-certified neurologists and neurosurgeons offering full-spectrum stroke care. Nationally recognized as a HealthCare Center of Excellence St. Lukes Health-Memorial Lufkin offers compassionate comprehensive health care including off-campus rehab and outpatient facilities and addition to its large emergency department there are 32 private rooms dedicated imaging and OBGYN wound care infusion and lab services.

Required Experience:

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