Job: Registered Nurse

Job Description

Job Type: PRN, Hourly

Wage: $38-$48/hr. 

Location: Leadville, CO.

Job Description

Registered Nurse- PRN-Per Diem position available. 

Benefits for the position are paid sick time and 403(b) retirement  

Accepting applications on an ongoing basis 

Requirements

• Current Colorado RN license / Current RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact.
• Current BLS, ACLS, and PALS certifications from American Heart Association are required.
• Current TNCC certification is preferred.
• Current CEN certification is preferred.
• NRP certification is preferred.
• Good organizational skills.
• Physical requirements, ability to lift, push, and pull up to 50 pounds frequently.
• Ability to follow verbal and written directions. 
• Good interpersonal and customer relation skills.
• Ability to make decisions under pressure. 
• Manage stress appropriately. 
• Manage anger/fear/hostility/violence of others appropriately.
• Work independently and handle multiple priorities.

Assumes responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and the patient/family to identify and meet the patient's physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. The nursing process, patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act promote the patient's optimal health, well-being, and safety. It also demonstrates personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values. Please review the specific addendum, if applicable.

Emergency Department/Dual Track Emergency Department

• Uses Emergency Department and Dual Track Emergency Department Guidelines of care, hospital policies/procedures and regulatory guidelines to guide work within scope of practice.
• Initiates standards of care based on chief complaint and the Emergency Severity Index while adhering to policy.
• Coordinates care of patients with the provider and ancillary departments
• Stock and clean Emergency Department rooms and specified areas.
• Participate in designated quality initiatives and assignments as directed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Patient & Family Centered Care

• Assess the patient's physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records, and clinical data.
•  Evaluate the patient's response and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
• Develop and implement a patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate competency in various therapeutic/diagnostic interventions, including but not limited to IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
•  Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect each patient's health, safety, and rights.
• Provide patient/family education by assessing patient/family learning, readiness, needs, and ability.
•  Provide patient teaching and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.
•  Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
•  Develop relationship-based care in which the nurse strives to understand what is most important to the individual and actively engage them in all aspects of care.
• This care will be delivered with respect for cultural differences and the diversity of human experience.

Leadership/Nursing Professionalism

• Delegates to non-RN personnel in accordance with State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
• Effectively uses time, personnel, equipment and supplies to provide high quality, cost effective patient care.
• Professional role model for all staff, demonstrating ethical/legal/professional nursing process.
•  Manages resources and patient flow through matching nursing competencies with individualized patient's and unit needs.
• Uses standards of care, hospital policies/ procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
• Teamwork and Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
•  Precepts/ mentors new staff or nursing students as needed.
• Attends 75% of staff meetings, including training meetings.

Informatics/Technology 

•  Adapts to rapidly changing technology as evidenced by competency in technology and equipment used in the patient care setting.
• Thorough and confidential maintenance of patient charts and records.
• Document ongoing status, interventions, patient response and outcomes accurately, timely.
• Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

Quality/ Research

• Verbalizes an understanding of the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data.
• Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, patient experiences, and safe care delivery.
•  Participate in unit-based Quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities.
•  Use current healthcare research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase understanding of professional issues.

Professional Development

• Consistently utilize the provided resources to learn and reference facility policy.
• Seeks out learning opportunities and continuing education.
•  Seeks experiences that reflect current practice to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
• Maintains professional records that provide evidence of competency and life-long learning.
• Evaluate one’s own integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
•  Takes action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.
• Demonstrates a commitment to the organization through ongoing participation at the hospital and unit-based meetings.
• Completes hospital-required training annually and any additional training as requested or required by nursing leadership.

**Disclaimer: The duties and responsibilities described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee, time to time; the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Click “View Application” below for more detail on this specific job.