Our Trauma Intensive Care Unit is looking for a charge Nurse to share their skill and experience! The Charge Nurse role will communicate and collaborate with all members of the health care team. Valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion is a key strategy of teamwork at Texas Health . Texas Health Dallas is a Level II Trauma Center, Comprehensive Stroke Center, and 4th time Magnet facility.

Texas Health Dallas is located at 8200 Walnut Hill Ln, Dallas, TX 75231

Schedule : PRN Days (7 AM -7 PM); as needed with some weekends and holidays requirements

​​​​​​​We’re so excited about our new 24-bed ICU that specializes in Trauma and Neuroscience patient populations. As a nurse on this unit, you’ll have opportunities for professional growth, career development, and outstanding support from our Neuro Providers and Trauma Providers. We offer 24/7 Trauma Intensivist and Neuro Critical Care Intensivist programs which provides exceptional critical care patient oversight. Our staffing ratio depends upon acuity and is typically 2:1.

Intensive Care Department highlights:

• Fast paced, Fun loving, high-acuity unit

• Great Nurse/Doctor rapport

• Unique Complex Neuroscience Cases

• High-acuity traumas such as Guns Shot, Stabbings, Severe Car Accident injuries

• High Risk OB such as Percreta

• Research and Education opportunities

• Opportunity for advancement

• Nurse Career Advancement Program (NCAP) opportunities

• National Certification Preparation and Courses offered, as well as initial test reimbursement and bonus

​​​​​​​We have a lot going on at Texas Health Dallas and we want you to be a part of it. Our Neuroscience Program is expanding, we’ll be applying for Level I Major Trauma designation and we continue to be on the cutting edge of technology. We're Magnet designated, Joint Commission certified in chest pain, heart failure and stroke and a Mission: Lifeline® Receiving Center.

Learn more about our expansion and this unit. Click here: https://jobs.texashealth.org/UTSW-Expands-Neurosurgery-Program-to-Texas-Health-Dallas

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications:

EDUCATION:

• Associate degree in Nursing required.

• BSN preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• 1 Year Experience as a clinical nurse (RN) in an acute care setting required

• 2 years’ experience as a clinical nurse in an acute care setting preferred

• Current RN licensure upon hire required

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Current RN licensure or compact licensure recognized by the Texas Board of Nursing upon hire

• BCLS—Basic Cardiac Life Support—Prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required

Skills Needed:

This role directly assists leadership on a particular unit or units and shift, by offering staff guidance and support, maintaining a clean and safe work environment and ensuring unit operational tasks are completed. Individuals in this role will demonstrate

• Basic Human Needs, Human Respect, Customer Interaction

• Mutual Problem Solving, Flexibility and Adaptability, Critical Thinking

• Conflict Management, Attentive Reassurance, Quality Management

• Shared Decision Making, Professional Development, Delegation

• Teamwork: "Individuals caring for individuals, together"

More about Texas Health Dallas?

Texas Health Dallas is a 900-bed MAGNET-designated hospital, a Level II Major Trauma facility, the first hospital in Dallas to achieve chest pain center accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers and recipient of the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline Silver Quality Achievement Award. We are a top-notch choice in North Texas for cancer care, cardiology, emergency medicine, neurosciences, orthopedics, senior care, women's services and a renowned Level III neonatal intensive care unit.

Texas Health Resources:

Texas Health Resources is one of the largest faith-based, nonprofit health care delivery systems in the United States and the largest in North Texas in terms of patients served. Texas Health has 25 acute-care and short-stay hospitals that are owned, operated, joint-ventured or affiliated with the system. It has more than 3,800 licensed beds, more than 21,100 employees of fully-owned/operated facilities plus 1,400 employees of consolidated joint ventures and counts more than 5,500 physicians with active staff privileges at its hospitals. At Texas Health, we strive to create an atmosphere of respect, integrity, compassion and excellence for all who come in contact with us, be they patients or our employees. We are committed to diversity in our workforce, and our mission to serve spreads across ethnic, cultural, economic and generational boundaries. We invite you to join us in furthering your career and our accomplishments and philosophy of excellence

Texas Health Highlights

• Fortune's list of Best Workplaces in Health Care (#1): https://fortune.com/best-workplaces-health-care/2020/

• “Best Workplaces(TM) for Diversity” by Fortune and Great Place to Work® (5 th year in row): https://fortune.com/best-workplaces-for-diversity/2019/

• Great Place to Work's Best Workplaces in Texas™ 2020: https://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-workplaces/texas/2020?category=large

• 2019 Texan by Nature 20 (TxN 20): https://texanbynature.org/txn20/

• Platinum-level recognition in the 2019 “Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles®” awards, sponsored by the National Business Group on Health (eleventh year to appear on the list and fourth year to receive the Platinum award)

• A 2019 Gold Level Workplace Health Achievement Award by the American Heart Association (4 th year in a row)

• Largest Blue Zones® Project Approved™ Worksite in the nation (2016)

Texas Health requires a resume when an application is submitted.Employment opportunities are only reflective of wholly owned Texas Health Resources entities.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employees or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.