# Outpatient Surgery Nurse at St. Luke's Hospital - Lufkin · CommonSpirit Health

> Open job at St. Luke's Hospital - Lufkin · CommonSpirit Health in Lufkin, United States. Workplace: On-site.

Source: Nurse Jobs World, https://nursejobsworld.com/jobs/commonspirit-health-outpatient-surgery-nurse-o7dmjf1
Posted 26 October 2026. Last checked on the employer's career site: 4 November 2026.

## Facts

- Company: [CommonSpirit Health](https://nursejobsworld.com/companies/commonspirit-health)
- Location: Lufkin, United States
- Workplace: On-site
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $31–47 / hour
- Local language: Not required
- Skills: Outpatients & clinics
- Not mentioned in the job post: visa sponsorship, relocation, where you can apply from

## 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**

- At least one (1) year of RN experience
- Associate Of Nursing
- Registered Nurse: TX
- Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days

**Preferred**

- Bachelors Of Nursing

Where You'll Work

St. Luke’s Health – Memorial Lufkin is a 279 bed facility and member of CommonSpirit Health, a national nonprofit health system. Serving East Texas, St. Luke's Health-Memorial Lufkin provides more than a quarter of a million patient services annually and contributes millions of dollars in local charity care and community support. We’re the area’s first Joint Commission Certified Primary Stroke Center, with board-certified neurologists and neurosurgeons offering full-spectrum stroke care. Nationally recognized as a HealthCare Center of Excellence, St. Luke's Health-Memorial Lufkin offers compassionate, comprehensive health care, including off-campus rehab and outpatient facilities and services. In addition to its large emergency department, there are 32 private rooms, dedicated imaging and OBGYN, wound care, infusion and lab services.

## How to apply

Apply on the job page, https://nursejobsworld.com/jobs/commonspirit-health-outpatient-surgery-nurse-o7dmjf1: its Apply button opens the employer's own application page.

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