[Hiring] Registered Nurse @Texas Children's Hospital

Role Description

Texas Children’s Virtual Care Network is seeking experienced, innovative nurses who are passionate about patient- and family-centered care and excited to help transform how nursing care is delivered. Virtual Nurses partner with bedside nurses to provide admission support, patient and family education, discharge readiness, and discharge teaching through a technology-enabled care model. This role is ideal for nurses who are strong communicators, educators, collaborators, and critical thinkers and who are comfortable using technology to support patients, families, and bedside care teams. As a Virtual Nurse, you remain an essential part of the nursing care team while helping create additional capacity for bedside nurses to focus on direct patient care.

• Performs and documents assessment of the patient/family including biophysical, psychosocial, developmental (age-appropriate), culture, spiritual, and environmental needs in an organized and systematic manner.
• Analyzes situations, anticipates potential problems, and detects changes in patient status.
• Re-prioritizes and updates plan of care based on new information and changes to the patient’s condition; communicates this information to other health care team members and documents in the medical record.
• Participates in interdisciplinary rounds and/or patient care conferences and documents in the medical record.
• Assists patients/family in implementing their role in the plan of care as appropriate.
• Assess patient family learning needs capabilities, preferences, and readiness to learn prior to teaching.
• Demonstrates positive and effective interpersonal skills when dealing with patients/families, visitors, peers, and other health care team members.
• Administers and documents medications and treatments in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates willingness and ability to acquire new knowledge and utilize new skills needed to improve individual, team, and organizational performance.
• Participate in unit performance improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing or other degree in nursing with acceptance or current enrollment in a BSN program and signed agreement.
• Current licensure with the Board of Nursing for the State of Texas or Nurse Licensure Compact.
• Current BLS certification from the American Heart Association.
• 9 months of professional nursing experience.

Requirements

• 2 years of nursing experience (preferred).
• Acute Care experience and ability to cross-train to cover NICU and Mother/Baby (preferred).
• Proficiency with EPIC (or comparable electronic health record systems) (preferred).
• Ability to conduct virtual patient intakes and provide patient education via phone or digital platforms (preferred).
• Strong clinical judgment and critical-thinking skills (preferred).
• Excellent communication and patient/family education skills (preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams (preferred).
• Comfortable with technology and virtual care delivery (preferred).
• Strong organization and time-management skills (preferred).
• Adaptable and innovative, with the ability to navigate changing workflows (preferred).
• Commitment to patient- and family-centered care (preferred).

Benefits

• All successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.