Registered Nurse Sepsis Coordinator - HCA Healthcare

Description

Introduction

Last year alone, HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours impacting our communities. As a Sepsis Coordinator with HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center, you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving!

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center, 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.

Are you a continuous learner? With more than 94,000 nurses throughout HCA Healthcare, we are one of the largest employers of nurses in the United States. Education is key to excellence! As a majority owner of Galen College of Nursing, which joins Research College of Nursing and Mercy School of Nursing as educational facilities within the HCA Healthcare family, we make it easier and more affordable to gain certifications and job skills. Apply today for our Registered Nurse Sepsis Coordinator opening and continue to learn!

Job Summary and Qualifications

We are seeking a Registered Nurse Sepsis Coordinator to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other, and we are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply now!

What You Will Do In Your Role:

• You are responsible for overall surviving sepsis program initiative and identifying areas for improvement in recognition, process of ‘Code Sepsis/ Sepsis Alert’ activation, compliance in completing the sepsis bundle and providing suggestion to improve outcomes.
• You will help build a team of sepsis champions including charge and unit nurse, key physician representing the Emergency Department, Intensivist Group, Hospitalists and Surgeons.
• You will conduct daily Sepsis Rounds during which unit patients and previous subjects of code sepsis are provided follow up and current length of stay, complications related to severe sepsis are addressed.
• You are responsible for hospital wide data collection including:
• Total cases of severe sepsis, with and without shock
• Sepsis Bundle Compliance within one hour of recognition and activation of the sepsis team. Unit and physician compliance (ED physician, Intensivist)
• Mortality rate Vent day, ICU LOS, sepsis CVC utilization rate for overall severe sepsis, severe sepsis with shock and severe sepsis without shock.

What qualifications you will need:

• 3 years of ICU or ER experience is required
• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing is required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred.
• Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RN License within 90 days of hire date)

Healthcare Corporation of America (HCA) is a community of 94,000 Registered Nurses and 38,000 active physician partners. We have over 1,900 facilities ranging from hospitals, freestanding ER’s, ambulatory surgery centers, and urgent care clinics. Our facility-based staff continues to raise the bar in patient care. Ten of our HCA Healthcare facilities have been named in IBM Watson Health’s top 100 best-performing hospitals based on patient satisfaction and operational data.

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.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

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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.