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We value your contributions. Our employee recognition programs encourage our teams to raise the bar. We are currently seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to join our family. Come be a part of the change!

We offer you an excellent total compensation package, including competitive salary, excellent benefit package and growth opportunities. We believe in our team and your ability to do excellent work with us. Your benefits include 401k, PTO medical, dental, flex spending, life, disability, tuition reimbursement, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and student loan repayment program. We would love to talk to you about this fantastic opportunity.

HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest - Houston, TX

Registered Nurse (RN) - Rapid Response

HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest is a 423-bed acute care hospital that has been serving the north Houston community for more than 40 years, providing a wide range of medical services including cardiology, maternity care, neonatal intensive care, pediatrics, bariatrics and neurology.

HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest is affiliated with HCA Houston Healthcare, part of the HCA Healthcare Gulf Coast Division. The division is a comprehensive network of hospitals, outpatient surgery centers, emergency centers and diagnostic imaging facilities in greater Houston, Corpus Christi and South Texas. Facilities include: 17 hospitals, nine ambulatory care centers, 13 off-campus emergency centers, and a regional transfer center.

What you will do in this role:

• The Registered Nurse coordinates, supervises and is accountable for safe professional nursing care of patients
• Achieves professional goals set during previous evaluation period
• Prioritize work and duties well and must work well under stressful situations.
• Demonstrate good communication and customer service skills with a variety of patients, physicians, and other health care providers both internal and external to the organization, and must make accurate clinical decisions and judgments quickly.
• Demonstrate proficiency in understanding and calculating medication dosages, and demonstrate thorough knowledge of the side effects and hazards of various pharmacologic agents administered.
• Demonstrates professional behavior and conduct at all times
• Demonstrates and maintains good employee/peer relationship and teamwork
• Prioritize work and duties and must work well under stressful situations
• Demonstrate good communication and customer service skills with patients, families, physicians, peers and healthcare team
• Demonstrates accountability for direct patient care, applies nursing process, prioritizes care and evaluates outcome
• Participates and facilitates in the discharge planning process and assists with decreasing readmissions
• Documents all aspects of patient care efficiently, accurately and per policy recommendations.
• Delegate's patient care to license/ non licensed nursing staff, based on acuity, needs of patient, staff availability and qualifications
• Participates in Performance Improvement activity
  

Qualifications:

• Current RN licensure in the State of Texas
• Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing, BSN required, will consider ADN's enrolled in BSN program
• Ability to interpret basic EKG rhythms within 6 months
• Minimum of 6 months RN experience in acute care/critical care setting
• American Red Cross or American Heart Association Basic Life Support Course (BLS or BCLS) and Certification
• American Red Cross or American Heart Association Advanced Life Support Course (ALS or ACLS) and Certification

Healthcare Corporation of America (HCA) is a community of 94,000 Registered Nurses and 38,000 active physician partners. We have over 1,900 facilities ranging from hospitals, freestanding ER's, ambulatory surgery centers, and urgent care clinics. Our facility based staff continues to raise the bar in patient care. Ten of our HCA Healthcare facilities have been named in IBM Watson Health's top 100 best-performing hospitals based on patient satisfaction and operational data.

Be a part of an organization that invests in you. We are actively reviewing applications. Highly qualified candidates will be promptly contacted by our hiring managers for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!

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.