Registered Nurse Emergency and Urgent Care

CommonSpirit Health; Golden (CO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health in Golden, CO seeks a Registered Nurse to facilitate, communicate, and collaborate with the healthcare team and patient/family. You will meet physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, advancing modern nursing through compassionate care.

You will promote patient health and safety through the nursing process, adhering to standards and the Nurse Practice Act, and demonstrate accountability in a mission-driven environment.

Qualifications

• RN license in the state of employment.
• Associates Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma/endorsement.
• Physical requirements: medium work, lift up to 50 lbs occasionally, up to 20 lbs frequently, up to 10 lbs constantly.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient’s physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs; plan and intervene for optimum outcomes.
• Develop and implement patient care plans with the interdisciplinary team.
• Perform interventions including IVs, wound care, meds, catheterization, and specimen collection.
• Maintain accurate charts; document status and outcomes; use IT to communicate and support decision-making.
• Advocate for patient health, safety, and rights; collaborate with care teams.
• Educate patients and families; assess learning needs and deliver education.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Nursing process

Information technology literacy

Education

Associates Degree in Nursing

Nursing Diploma or by endorsement

Tools

Electronic health records

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our RN, you will assume responsibility for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and patient/family to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient, advancing modern nursing through compassionate care.

Every day you will promote optimal patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, adhering to patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act, and demonstrating personal accountability for relationship-based care and our organizational mission.

To be successful in this role, you will be a Registered Nurse with a commitment to compassionate, high-quality patient care, strong communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to apply the nursing process effectively within a supportive, mission-driven environment.

• Assess patient’s physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records & clinical data. Evaluates patient’s response and intervenes to ensure optimal patient outcome.
• Develop and implement patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including, but not limited to, IV’s, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
• Thorough and confidential maintenance of patient charts and records. Document ongoing status, interventions, patient response and outcomes in an accurate, timely manner. Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
• Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health and safety and rights of each patient.
• Provide patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness, needs, and ability. Provide teaching and evaluate effectiveness of teaching.

Job Requirements

Required

• Associates Degree in Nursing; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• RN License in state of employment
• Physical Requirements: Medium Work exert/lift up to 50 lbs. force occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs. frequently, and/or up to 10lbs. constantly

Preferred

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing
• One (1) year experience

Where You'll Work

Be part of one of our stand-alone sites offering both urgent AND emergency care under one roof – CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region Urgent and Emergency Care. Located in great places to live, work and play like Arvada, Lakewood, Frederick, and Golden – every center is equipped with lab, CT Scan and X-ray capabilities on-site to provide the right level of treatment at an appropriate cost. Patients needing emergency services are attended to in a calm environment with individual exam rooms. And unlike most urgent care centers, every patient is seen by a physician.