RN Cardiac ICU Seasonal

PRN FLAT RATE AND COMPLETION BONUS OFFERED!! Join Baylor The Heart Hospital Dallas as a Registered Nurse in the Cardiac ICU and be part of something better!

Patient Population: Post cardiotomy, cardiology interventional, post vascular surgical/interventional, advanced heart failure. Cardiac ICU – CABG, CRRT, Impella, Swan, AIBP, etc. This unit operates as a Cardiac Universal Bed (CUB) and has Cardiac ICU and Cardiac Telemetry patients. All nurses on the unit must be comfortable caring for both.

Required Experience: Candidates MUST have a minimum of 2 years of true, recent ICU RN experience.

Patient Ratios: 1:2 ICU and 1:4 Tele/PCU.

• Full‑time seasonal weekly requirements are three 12‑hour shifts for the 13‑week contract (excludes 1st week of orientation).
• $1,500 completion bonus for meeting minimum productive time.
• $51 seasonal rate.
• Eligible for shift differentials: $3.50 for evenings, $5 for nights, and $6 for weekends. These are stackable as applicable by time/day; e.g., a weekend night shift is paid $51 + $5 + $6.
• Weekend requirements are the same as regular FT – rotating weekends.
• The first week is Monday‑Friday orientation.
• Although this is a short‑term (13‑week) assignment, you will be a Baylor employee (not contractual or agency). The hope is that once the assignment is concluded, you convert to a regular FT, PT, or PRN role.

The Registered Nurse (RN) Seasonal PRN is a licensed professional who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate patient care delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient, identifies nursing diagnoses based on responses to health problems, develops and implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the patient's response. The RN promotes safe passage for their patients by using knowledge of patient needs and the healthcare environment to assist patients to transition through the healthcare encounter without any preventable complications or delays.

The RN delegates interventions to health care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each patient's condition and the competencies of the employee.

• Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements and evaluates the nursing plan of care. Modifies plan to meet clinical outcomes.
• Clinical Inquiry: Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing sensitive indicators. Supports evidence‑based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning. Participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.
• Caring Practices: Creates a compassionate, supportive, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages both emotional and physical pain with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.
• Response to Diversity: Recognizes, appreciates and incorporates a patient's and family's unique differences, such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan of care.
• Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
• Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community; integrating appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed decisions about their health care and treatments, including health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.
• Collaboration: Works collaboratively and interdependently with…