Work Schedule: 3 days per week, 7p-7a/Rotating Weekends
Elevate your nursing career on the award-winning Surgical Floor team at HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast in Pasadena, TX. Whether your expertise lies in Post-Op recovery, Surgical Floor care, Med-Surg, or fast-paced Acute Care, our dedicated inpatient surgical division provides a dynamic, collaborative environment where clinical skills thrive. In this role, you will care for patients navigating specialized recovery pathways across high-acuity specialties, including general surgery, complex orthopedics, gastrointestinal and colorectal procedures, bariatrics, and robotic-assisted surgeries. You’ll be joining an accredited American College of Surgeons Surgical Quality Partner and Healthgrades-recognized hospital celebrated with the Surgical Care Excellence Award™, placement among America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Orthopedic Surgery, and recognized as an HCA Healthcare Unit of Distinction. Step onto our surgical floor to deliver bedside care within a nationally celebrated health system that invests in clinical education, career advancement, and team-centered culture
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:
- Assesses, plans, implements, evaluates, and documents patient care and discharge using an interdisciplinary approach, while continuously monitoring conditions and reactions to treatments.
- Administers medications safely and accurately, carries out physician orders, and strictly adheres to laws, regulations, and hospital policies regarding controlled substances.
- Assists physicians with examinations, tests, and procedures using appropriate infection control techniques and universal precautions while maintaining unit-based and age-appropriate competencies.
- Plans and coordinates patient/family teaching, respects patient privacy and confidentiality, and honors their cultural, psychosocial, and spiritual values.
- Complies with hospital policies, completes annual Code of Conduct training, and acts with honesty, integrity, and fairness in alignment with the Mission & Values Statement.
- Participates in performance improvement activities, communicates status changes through the established chain of command, and promotes teamwork to support quality patient care.
What qualifications you will need:
- Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- (RN) Registered Nurse with an active license in the state of Texas or multistate license including Texas
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred, Associate Degree minimum requirement
- Oncology and/or Chemotherapy certification is preferred
- 1 year of clinical experience as a licensed RN in an acute care setting.
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.
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.
"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
Join a family that cares about every stage in your career! We are interviewing candidates for our Registered Nurse RN - Surgical Post Op - Acute Car opening. Apply today and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will reach out.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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