Registered Nurse; RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit

Staff - Registered Nurse (RN) - PCU - Progressive Care Unit at Baylor Scott & White Health summary:
The Registered Nurse (RN) in the Progressive Care Unit (PCU) provides patient-centered nursing care by assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individualized care plans in a hospital setting. This role requires collaboration with healthcare teams, patient advocacy, and adherence to professional and ethical nursing standards while supporting quality improvement initiatives. The position involves 12-hour night shifts and demands clinical expertise, critical thinking, and effective communication to ensure safe, compassionate care.
Baylor Scott & White Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a nursing job in Irving, Texas.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit

• Discipline: RN

• Duration:
Ongoing

• 36 hours per week

• Shift: 12 hours, nights

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Employment Type:

Staff
Relocation Assistance available for eligible candidates
Relocation assistance is available for candidates moving 50+ miles from their current residence.
JOB SUMMARY
The Registered Nurse (RN) 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.
RN job is to be used for RNs in hospital inpatient and outpatient departments with 24X7 staffing which include those departments with on-call staffing on the off shifts. Examples of hospital inpatient and outpatient procedural areas: GI Lab, Pain Management, Dialysis, Infusion Centers and IV Services.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF

THE ROLE
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…