RN Registered Nurse - PICU Seasonal Dell Children's Medical Center

Company: Ascension, A53
Location: Austin
Posted on: December 5, 2019

Job Description:

We Are Hiring
Experience what it is like to be a travel nurse with Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, part of Ascension. Earn premium pay while working short-term assignments in Austin, TX!
Contract assignments are available for Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Schedule:
PRN - (3) 12-hour shifts
Shifts Available: 7am-7pm; 7pm-7am
Why Join Ascension?
Choose your own adventure! Ascension is transforming the world of nursing and travel nursing by offering contract assignments throughout our national health system, allowing you the opportunity to be a contract nurse without being an "outsider." Options to renew contracts or convert to a permanent associate are widely available. Enjoy the flexibility, convivence, and adventure of traveling with Ascension.
Love your location
Finding a nursing job you love can be hard. Finding a city you love can be even harder. That's why we want to invite you to join us in a place you can have both.
Austin is known as the "Live Music Capital of the World". It is home to over 200 live music venues, as many as 2,000 bands and performing artists, and music, film, and interactive festivals, including Austin City Limits (ACL) and SXSW. U.S. News & World Report named Austin the best place to live in the U.S. in 2017. As the capital of Texas and the 11th largest city in the United States, Austin was recently named the fastest growing large city in the United States. Austin is an active city with a lush environment highlighted by parks, lakes, and trails, with a great climate, made for outdoor enjoyment and recreation nearly year-round.
As the unofficial slogan "Keep Austin Weird," Austin has the largest urban bat colony in North America, (which helps lower the mosquito and insect population). Austin prides itself on its food truck scene, amazing tacos and awesome patio happy hours. It is also ranked one of the most dog-friendly cities in the world.
Ascension Seton, based in Austin, Texas, is a faith-based non-profit healthcare system founded in 1902 by the Daughters of Charity. Called to be a sign of God's unconditional love for all, Ascension Seton strives to expand access to high-quality, low-cost, person-centered care and services. Ascension Seton operates more than 100 clinical locations, including four teaching hospitals which serve as training sites for Dell Medical School at The University of Texas.
Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, especially to those most in need. In FY2018, Ascension provided nearly $2 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs.

What You Will Do
Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas is the only dedicated freestanding pediatric facility in the region. Serving a 46-county area and beyond, Dell Children's is the premier healthcare provider for children and adolescents in Central Texas.
Dell Children's is the only Pediatric Level I Trauma Center in Central Texas and one of only five in all of Texas. It is one of an elite group of children's hospitals that offer the highest level of care available to children who have been victims of trauma. Learn more about the Level I difference and what it means for the comprehensive care of children in our area.
Dr. Charles Fraser, a world-renowned pediatric heart surgeon, is the new chief of pediatric and congenital cardiothoracic surgery. In the past year, he has spearheaded the comprehensive Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease program in Austin at Dell Children's Medical Center. Over the course of his illustrious career, Fraser has performed more than 10,000 heart surgeries, refining techniques in the treatment of infants, children and adults with congenital heart disease. He is widely regarded as the successor to Houston heart surgery and artificial heart implantation pioneers Michael DeBakey, M.D., and Denton Cooley, M.D.
Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas is proud to announce our official designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Magnet hospital. Achieving Magnet designation requires satisfying a demanding set of criteria which measure the strength and quality of nursing and an interdisciplinary approach to patient care. It also sends a message to our community and the families we serve that we are committed to providing the best care possible.
As an Associate with Seton Family of Hospitals-TX, you will have the opportunity to provide direct nursing care in a diverse healthcare environment in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.
Responsibilities:

• Implements and monitors patient care plans. Monitors, records and communicates patient condition as appropriate.
• Serves as a coordinator of all disciplines for well-coordinated patient care.
• Notes and carries out physician and nursing orders.
• Assesses and coordinates patient's care needs with members of the healthcare team. What You Will Need
  Experienced nurses - we have a place for you. Our contract nurses will be expected to hit the ground running. As such, we do require 2 years' experience in the desired specialty area.
  Licenses/Certifications/Registration:
  • Required Credential(s):
    • BLS Provider credentialed from the American Heart Association (AHA) obtained within 3 Months (90 days) of hire date or job transfer date.
    • Registered Nurse credentialed from the Texas Board of Nursing or current home state license for multi-state license recognition "Compact State" obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date. Education:
      • Diploma
        • Diploma from an accredited school/college of nursing required Work Experience:
          • None required.
          • 2 Years of experience Strongly Preferred
          • Preferred Pediatric ICU Equal Employment Opportunity
            Seton Healthcare Family is an equal employment opportunity / Affirmative Action employer and complies with all applicable federal, state and local equal employment regulations and laws. It is the policy of the Seton Healthcare Family to afford equal employment opportunities to all employees and prospective employees without regard to their race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic or status that is protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all personnel actions, such as hiring, promotion, transfer, demotion, termination, layoff and all other conditions and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
            Affirmative Action goes beyond the concept of equal employment opportunity. Affirmative Action policies and programs are required to overcome the present effects of past discrimination and to achieve equal employment opportunity for members of groups that are or have been formerly under-represented. Affirmative Action policies and programs are tools whereby additional efforts are made to recruit, employ and promote qualified members of formerly excluded groups, even if that exclusion cannot be traced to particular discriminatory actions. Through specific and result-oriented activities, Seton Healthcare Family's goals are to ensure that every person is given full consideration through equal employment opportunity policies and practices and to achieve a representative workforce through its affirmative action efforts. It is further the policy of the Seton Healthcare Family to encourage vendors, contractors, affiliate institutions and others doing business with the Seton Healthcare Family to observe the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action.
            Seton Healthcare Family is an EEO/AA employer: M/F/Disabled/Vet.
            For further information regarding your EEO rights, click on the following link to the "EEO is the Law" poster:
            
            EEO is the Law Poster Supplement
            
            Please note that Ascension will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Ascension will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.
            

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