Introduction

Do you have the career opportunities as a(an) Registered Nurse Rapid Response you want in your current role? We invest in what matters most to nurses like you – at home, at work, and at every stage in your career. We have an exciting opportunity for you to join HCA Houston Healthcare West which is a part of the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare West, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Do you want to work where you have a voice? Nurses are at the forefront of our commitment to the care and improvement of human life. At HCA Healthcare, there are many ways for nurses to have a voice through professional practice councils, advisory councils, vital voices surveys, and units of distinction. We learn from our multi-generational nursing family. We partner with our Nurses at HCA Houston Healthcare West!

Job Summary:

Rapid Responders are collaborative members of the health care team who deliver nursing and collaborative. Medical aspects of care to specific populations within the scope of care delineated by the licensing board, and professional standards of care. Rapid Responders collaborate with physicians, nurse practitioners and interdisciplinary team members to review the plan of care, intervene when necessary to ensure adequate delivery of quality, cost-effective care and maintain continuity of care through appropriate referral and follow-up.

What qualifications you will need:

• Responds to all RRTs (Rapid Response calls), Code Blue, Code Sepsis, and Code Stroke
• Will take on the role of educator and provides support and education to staff as needed
• Communicates daily with each charge nurse to identify high risk patients
• Rounds on all medical-surgical units every two hours to address MEWS scores and questions and/or concerns of staff.
• Assesses all “at risk” patients as identified by MEWS score increases
• Monitors surgery schedule and rounds on any “at risk” post op patients
• Facilitates debriefings/critiques post codes
• Enters RRT data and creates monthly reports using excel, reports data to appropriate committees
• Completes 24 hours post RRT/Code Blue follow up and documentation
• Leads and facilitates RRT/Code Blue Committee
• Refers patient complaints to appropriate Unit Managers
• Utilizes chain of command to ensure appropriate action is taken
• Facilitates a staff satisfaction feedback system for RRT
• All other duties as assigned
• Promotes consistent, positive patient interactions that advance the agenda of unparalleled patient service.
• Demonstrates caring and empathy in all interactions and advocates for patient- and family-centered approach in all decisions and actions.
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills, including active listening. Ensures patients, physicians, and colleagues have a clear understanding of all communications.
• Engages in evidence-based best practices that enhance the patient experience, communication fundamentals/AIDET, Teach-Back, Narrating Care, etc.
• Participates as an active member of the health care team and positively promotes the rest of the team to patients/families/caregivers and other colleagues

• Advanced Cardiac Life Spt must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• CPR must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• CPR for Healthcare Providers must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Heart Saver CPR must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Graduate of an accredited program of nursing: associate degree, or baccalaureate program.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• CCRN, CNRN, and/or CEN preferred, required after six months completion in position. * Minimum Work Experience: Minimum of 2 years professional nursing experience in Intensive Care or Emergency Department.

HCA Houston Healthcare West is a full-service, 300 bed hospital that has been offering exceptional care to the West Houston communities for over 30 years. We proudly provide Houston residents with exceptional healthcare, including a vast-array of medical services from board-certified doctors and nationally accredited departments. We are recognized as a Certified Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and under an affiliation agreement with The Woman’s Hospital of Texas, we are able to bring our community The Woman’s Hospital of Texas at West Houston, a three-story cardiac and critical care tower. The Sugar Land Cancer Center and the Sugar Land Diagnostic Center, departments with HCA Houston Healthcare West, provide additional services to meet the needs of our community. 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.

"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our Registered Nurse Rapid Response opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.