RN PAT

CommonSpirit Health

📍The Woodlands, TX
Posted May 22, 2026

Job Overview

Position

RN PAT

Company

CommonSpirit Health

Location

The Woodlands, TX

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4417188680

Job Description

*Job Summary and Responsibilities*

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

  • Assessment: Does admission and ongoing assessment of patient’s condition. Provides nursing care to meet the patient’s physical, psychological and spiritual needs. Notifies doctor of changes in assessment that require attention.

  • Planning: Designs, directs, evaluates, and documents the plan of care, patient/family teaching and the transition of care plan to include a safe appropriate level of care discharge. Works with other clinical disciplines to meet specialized patient care and discharge needs. Formulates a plan of care and daily goals that takes into consideration the individualized needs of the patient.

  • Implementation: Prepares patients physically, psychologically, and spiritually for treatments, surgeries and diagnostic studies to help reduce patient anxiety. Knows patients' conditions and reports significant changes to Charge Nurse/Team Leader, and/or physician. Implements patient safety initiative and protocols including medication safety practices, physician orders, consult notifications.

  • Evaluation: Reassesses patients at appropriate intervals following interventions. Notifies physician as necessary to modify interventions. Adjusts nursing care to meet patient's emerging and changing needs.

  • Report Skills: Gives and receives report using Bedside Shift Report including family participation. Provides an accurate and comprehensive report to the oncoming shift to help establish continuity of patient care. Receives report from off-going shift and delegates tasks as needed to provide continuity of care according to coworker's experience, abilities and the patient's acuity.

  • Environment & Patient Safety: Maintains patient and work environment to maximize safe working space. Promptly removes all used and soiled equipment, linen, etc. to appropriate location. Incorporates national and organizational goals to improve quality, patient safety and satisfaction. Reports all patient safety and hazard concerns immediately.

  • Job Requirements*Required

  • Associates Other in Nursing

  • At least one (1) year of RN experience, upon hire and

  • Demonstrated competence in Registered Nurse I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire

  • Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire and

  • Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days

Preferred

  • Bachelors Of Nursing

*Where You'll Work*

St. Luke’s Health - The Woodlands Hospital is a 245 bed facility serving North Harris and Montgomery counties. The hospital has been recognized as a Best Hospital by U.S. News & World Report, and is proud to serve as the clinical home for the Dan L Duncan Cancer Center. The hospital was awarded an “A” hospital safety grade by The Leapfrog Group in both 2023 and 2025. Clinical services provided include cardiovascular services, diagnostic imaging, women’s services (digital mammography and bone density studies), neurosciences, pediatric care (Newborn and Level III nurseries), surgery, pathology and pulmonary services, and sleep disorder services.

*Pay Range*

$35.45 - $55.36 /hour

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.How do you approach initiating and updating a patient's plan of care to ensure it addresses their physical, psychological, and spiritual needs?
  • 2.Can you explain your process for conducting a Bedside Shift Report and how you incorporate the patient and their family into this handoff?
  • 3.Walk me through your steps when you notice a significant change in a patient's assessment that requires immediate attention.
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time when you had to prepare a patient physically and psychologically for an unexpected surgery or diagnostic study. How did you help reduce their anxiety?
  • 2.Describe a situation where you identified a patient safety hazard or concern in your work environment. How did you handle it?
  • 3.Give me an example of how you successfully collaborated with an interdisciplinary team to meet a patient's specialized discharge needs.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You are receiving report from the off-going shift and realize the acuity of your assigned patients is exceptionally high. One patient requires close monitoring, and you are concerned about safe task delegation. How do you manage your assignment and delegate effectively?
  • 2.You are caring for a patient whose condition is deteriorating, but the physician has not returned your page after two attempts, and the Charge Nurse is busy with another emergency. What is your next step?

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Patient AssessmentCare Plan ImplementationPatient SafetyInterdisciplinary CollaborationBedside Shift ReportMedication SafetyDischarge PlanningPatient/Family EducationCritical ThinkingBLS

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