Registered Nurse RN Free Standing ED FSED

HCA Houston Healthcare

📍Alvin, TX
Posted May 18, 2026

Job Overview

Position

Registered Nurse RN Free Standing ED FSED

Company

HCA Houston Healthcare

Location

Alvin, TX

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4416423756

Job Description

Stroke response times nearly half of the national average. Cutting-edge SPOT Technology that detects sepsis earlier than the human eye. An Enhanced Surgical Recovery program that reduces opioid prescriptions and post-surgical readmissions. As a national learning health system, we're transforming care delivery, advancing clinical outcomes, and empowering our nursing teams in a collaborative effort to give people a healthier tomorrow. Join us!

Job Summary And Qualifications
The Registered Nurse coordinates and delivers high quality, patient-centered care in accordance with the nature and specific requirements of the department, and consistent with the scope and standards of practice for the relevant state and specialty. In collaboration with medical providers and other members of the care team, the RN provides individualized, comprehensive, and compassionate care using established nursing models such as “Assess, Perform, Teach, and Manage.” The RN serves as an advocate for patients/families/caregivers and models a commitment to the organization’s vision/mission/values to support an unparalleled patient experience and clinical outcomes that contribute to overall departmental performance.

What you will do in this role:

  • Assesses patient pain regularly to promote effective pain management, including reassessments after appropriate intervention.

  • Performs procedures, monitoring, or other functions as ordered by the medical provider(s). Documents the administration of care in the patient medical record in a timely and thorough manner.

  • Performs exceptional care by responding promptly to patient requests. Strives to anticipate patient needs and resolve them proactively.

  • Teaches patients/families/caregivers about patient medical condition, patient status, treatment plan, medications and possible side effects, and follow-up measures. Translates complex medical terminology to ensure complete understanding.

  • Teaches patients/families/caregivers about any non-medicinal follow-up measures, such as healthy diet and exercise, disease prevention, and/or other lifestyle changes. Prepares patients and families/caregivers for future self-management.

What qualifications you will need:

  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date

  • Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date

  • Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date

  • NIH Stroke Scale must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date

  • Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date

  • PALS Pediatric Adv Life Supt must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date

  • Trauma Nursing Core Course must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date

  • (RN) Registered Nurse

  • Associate Degree in Nursing

  • 1 years experience Required Years of Experience

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

  • Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

  • Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

  • Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

  • Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

  • Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

  • Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn More About Employee Benefits
Note:
Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake is a
530+ bed hospital
where
*sophisticated, world-class medicine meets the comfort, care and convenience of a community hospital*
. For more than 40 years, we have proudly been providing high quality, cost-effective, comprehensive healthcare to the Houston Bay Area. We opened our doors in 1972 and now employ 2,000+ staff members and 900+ physicians in a wide range of specialties. Our specialists offer more talent and experience than any other hospital in the region. We are a
Level II Trauma Center and the only exclusive heart hospital south of Houston
. Our accredited center provides nationally-recognized care in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and recovery of cardiovascular diseases. HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake offers a variety of other services, including Woman Services, Pediatric Care, Breast Diagnostic Center, ACR-accredited Imaging Center, Wound Care Treatment Center featuring Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, and much more. 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.

*"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*
Join a family that cares about every stage in your career!
We are interviewing candidates for our Registered Nurse Emergency opening.
Apply today
and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will reach out.

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

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💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.This facility utilizes cutting-edge SPOT technology to detect sepsis earlier than the human eye. How do you integrate clinical decision support tools like SPOT with your own bedside assessment when evaluating a potentially septic patient?
  • 2.With stroke response times being a major priority for this FSED, walk me through your immediate assessment and intervention priorities when a suspected stroke patient arrives.
  • 3.The job requires obtaining several certifications within the first 6 months, including ENPC, TNCC, and NIH Stroke Scale. How will you manage the workload of a busy FSED while completing these educational requirements?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you had to translate complex medical terminology and a difficult treatment plan to a patient or their family to ensure they fully understood.
  • 2.Describe a situation where you proactively anticipated a patient's needs before they even had to ask or hit the call button.
  • 3.Give an example of a time you advocated for a patient regarding their pain management when the initial plan was ineffective.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You are working in the FSED and a patient presents with rapidly deteriorating respiratory status, while simultaneously another patient's family member is becoming verbally aggressive and demanding immediate attention. How do you handle this?
  • 2.You are discharging a patient post-surgery who is part of the Enhanced Surgical Recovery program aimed at reducing opioid prescriptions. The patient is demanding a higher dose of opioid pain medication to take home. How do you respond?

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