RN / Registered Nurse / Texas / Permanent / ICU Registered Nurse Job

Description

At St. David’s South Austin Medical Center we want to ensure your needs are met. We offer a variety of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans along with some unique benefits including:

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Paid Personal Leave

• 401k (100% annual match – 3%-9% of pay based on years of service)

• Identity Theft Protection discounts

• Auto, Home, and Life Insurance options

• Adoption Assistance

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

As a Registered Nurse (RN) in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), you will be responsible for performing patient assessments, developing a plan of care, implementing and evaluating care. As the Registered Nurse in the ICU, you will be responsible for directing, monitoring and evaluating the care delegated to non-licensed personnel on the team.  

• You will perform and document patient assessments at the time of the admission

• You will create a plan of care, including discharge plans, revise the plans based on the patients’ response to treatment and regularly evaluate plans for effectiveness     

• You will document the outcomes of nursing interventions and patient responses

• You will provide educational materials to patients and families on care and treatments

• You will administer medications and complete treatments according to hospital policy

• You will perform venipuncture, administer and maintain IV fluids and IV medications

• You will review all new physician orders, ensure the orders are carried out correctly, and verify that other departments are notified of orders and services needed

• You will notify the Charge Nurse and/or physician of changes in patient status

• You will provide accurate and relevant patient information reports to the Charge Nurse and to the on-coming shift to ensure continuity of care

• You will provides care for the critically ill patients with central/invasive lines, hemodynamic pressure lines, pressure monitoring devices, temporary pacing, artificial airway/mechanical ventilation

• You will provide care for unstable cardiac patients, immediate post-op patients and potential organ or tissue donor patients 

St. David’s South Austin Medical Center, which is part of St. David’s HealthCare, is a 334-bed acute care facility offering a range of complex specialties and sub-specialties, including a nationally accredited oncology program with the area’s only adult bone marrow transplant program; a trauma program that includes a Level II trauma center to treat the most severely injured and critical patients; a comprehensive cardiac program; full-service maternity and newborn care; and two full-service emergency centers in the communities of Bee Cave and Bastrop.

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