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Medical Surgical Nurse

CommonSpirit Health

Lufkin, TXFull-time$30.7–46.82/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$30.7–46.82/hr
Location
Lufkin, TX
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Texas RN LicenseBasic Life Support CPRAssociate's degree

Job overview

The Medical Surgical Nurse provides individualized care to patients, including assessments, skilled procedures, and implementation of care plans. The role collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to support patient outcomes, prepares patients for treatments and procedures, and reassesses care after interventions. The position requires an associate degree in nursing, at least one year of RN experience, a Texas RN license, and Basic Life Support certification.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Patient AssessmentCritical ThinkingPatient CareCare PlanningPatient and Family TeachingBedside Shift ReportingTask Delegation

Qualifications

Associate's Degree in Nursing1+ Years RN ExperienceRegistered Nurse I Competence or ExperienceTexas RN LicenseBasic Life Support CPRBachelor's of Nursing

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Full job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

** $15,000 SIGN ON BONUS for FULL TIME MED SURG positions for RN candidates with over 1 year of experience.**

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.

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Job Requirements

Required

  • Associates degree in Nursing and 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, upon hire and

Where You'll Work

CHI St. Luke’s Health Memorial - Lufkin is a 271 bed non-profit facility providing quality health care to patients and communities in and around Lufkin, TX. We are part of CommonSpirit Health which operates 139 hospitals and more than 1,000 care sites across 21 states, making our services accessible to nearly 1 in 4 U.S. residents. Memorial paves the way for quality innovative health care in East Texas and provides more than a quarter of a million patient services each year. With hospitals in Lufkin Livingston and San Augustine St. Luke’s Health-Memorial provides millions of dollars in charity care and community support each year.

Your success in this role comes from your enthusiasm to help others - with a patient-first mindset. Keen assessment skills, critical thinking, and a sense of urgency support your career advancement and you thrive in a fast-paced clinical environment where you will rarely experience the same day twice.

While you’re busy impacting the healthcare industry, we’ll take care of you with benefits that include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, and adoption assistance.

Pay Range

$30.70 - $46.82 /hour

We are an equal opportunity employer.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,703 open Medical-Surgical Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$30.7–46.82/hr
  • Texas median$37–47/hr60 hourly ranges
  • US median$38–57/hr727 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $38.76/hr, is 12% below the Texas median midpoint ($44/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Medical-Surgical Nurse hourly ranges in Texas.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 168 open Medical-Surgical Nurse jobs in Texas and 1,703 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Medical-Surgical Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (729 postings).
Education
This posting asks for an associate degree; 464 of the 1,703 open Medical-Surgical Nurse jobs (27%) ask for an associate degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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