Registered Nurse (RN) LTAC Department
Bring your passion to Texas Health where we are Better+Together
Work location: Texas Health Specialty 1304 Pennsylvania Ave. Fort Worth TX 76104
Work hours: PRN (7A-7P) as needed. Weekend and holiday requirements. PRN I requires a minimum of 1 shift per 6 week schedule.
Department highlights:
· Self-Scheduling that helps with work/life balance as well as opportunities for educational and career growth
· Robust Unit Based Council (UBC) and engaged leadership team
· 10-bed, long term acute care hospital, located within Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, offers an environment for you to use your clinical expertise to provide individualized and holistic care for patients with intensive nursing needs.
· We care for those with medically complex cases such as:
• Ventilator-dependent patients with rehabilitation potential
• Multiple trauma patients
• Patients with complex wound care
• Multisystem failure patients
· Low nurse-to-patient ratio in order to impact the progress of our patient’s health over our average 25-day length of stay. You really make a difference in your patient’s quality of life.
· Associate degree from an accredited Nursing program
· BSN preferred
· Current RN licensure or compact licensure recognized by the Texas Board of Nursing upon hire
· BCLS – prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly
· ACLS – within 90 days of hire preferred
· 1-year experience as a registered nurse required
· LTAC, Critical care or Progressive Care experience preferred
What You Will Do
Delivers care to patients utilizing the Nursing Process
· Assesses the patient
· Plans the care of the patient
· Intervenes as appropriate
· Evaluates the effectiveness of interventions
· Incorporates age specific safety/infection control measures into patient care.
· Initiates action to meet patient and/or significant others need for information
· Maintains continuity of patient care inter-shift, inter-hospital, and while expediting out of hospital transfers.
Additional perks of being a Texas Health Nurse
· Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, Student Loan Repayment Program as well as several other benefits.
· Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.
· Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).
· A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.
· Explore our Texas Health careers site for info like Benefits, Job Listings by Category, recent Awards we’ve won and more.
Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org. #cb # #LI-CR1
Texas Health Hospital Rockwall is proud to serve the growing areas of Rockwall County, Kaufman County, Hunt County, eastern Dallas County, southern Collin County and outlying areas. Our commitment is to provide not only safe, high quality care but to combine that with compassion, understanding and personal attention. This commitment has garnered us many local and national awards, including recognition as a CMS 5 Star hospital awarded to just 10% of those hospital surveyed nationally!
Located on 33 acres in Rockwall just south of interstate 30, Texas Health Rockwall offers 60 inpatient beds for acute medical and surgical needs. The hospital continues to grow and visiting campus today you will find a Women's Imaging and Breast Center, a bariatric clinic, an ambulatory surgery center and a variety of physician practices all dedicated to our evolving community health needs. You will see that our long awaited expansion is well underway! This expansion, focused on a healthy future in this high growth area of North Texas, will double the size of our hospital adding more patient beds, a Level 2 NICU, Cardiac Cath Lab and expanding other departments including Labor & Delivery, OR and the emergency room.
What makes us different? Simply put, it is how we approach caring for you. From the focus on safety to the personal attention we provide, our patients should feel right at home at Texas Health Rockwall. As Cindy Perrin, hospital president says, "The difference is found in the heart of our facility – our staff and physicians - and in the way we love, respect and care about our community and each other. We treat our hospital like our home, treat each other like family, and treat our patients like neighbors. It's just who we are!
Texas Health Hospital Rockwall is a joint venture owned by Texas Health Resources and physicians dedicated to the community and meets the definition under federal law of physician-owned hospital.