Registered Nurse Emergency Room

CommonSpirit Health; Lakewood (CO); On-site; USD 51,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

$20,000 sign-on bonus

Relocation assistance up to $8,000

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health’s St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, CO, seeks an RN to collaborate with the healthcare team to meet patients’ physical, emotional, and spiritual needs through compassionate care.

You will promote safe care using nursing standards, act within the State Nurse Practice Act, and support relationship-based care in a Magnet-designated ED. The role offers a $20,000 sign-on and up to $8,000 relocation for eligible new hires, with 90 FTE nights, 7pm–7:30am.

Qualifications

• Associates Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma; endorsement acceptable
• Active, unencumbered RN license in state of employment
• BLS from American Heart Association
• ACLS from American Heart Association
• NIHSS certification
• ENPC or PALS certification
• NRP certification
• At least 1 year RN ED experience
• TCAR or TNCC within 1 year of hire
• Physical requirements: medium work, lift up to 50 lbs occasionally

Responsibilities

• Assess physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and records review.
• Develop and implement patient care plans with interdisciplinary team; monitor outcomes.
• Demonstrate competency in IVs, wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collection.
• Document status, interventions, and outcomes; use IT to support decisions and mitigate errors.
• Promote health, safety, and rights; educate patient/family based on learning readiness.
• Provide teaching and evaluate its effectiveness with patients and families.

Skills

RN License

BLS

ACLS

NIHSS

ENPC or PALS

NRP

One year ED experience

TCAR or TNCC

Education

Associates Degree in Nursing

Nursing Diploma

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (preferred)

Endorsement/State License

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.

• 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.

We are offering a $20,000 sign on in addition to up to $8,000 relocation assistance to new hires who meet the eligibility requirements.

• 90 FTE-FT nights-7pm-7:30am

Required

Job Requirements

• Associates Degree in Nursing; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement


• Active and unencumbered RN License in state of employment


• BLS from the American Heart Association


• ACLS from the American Heart Association


• NIHSS


• ENPC or PALS


• NRP


• One year RN ED experience


• TCAR or TNCC within one year of hire


• 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


• CEN

Where You'll Work

The Emergency Department at St. Anthony Hospital, one of our proud Magnet designating hospitals, is a verified American College of Surgeons’ Level I Trauma Center. We are a Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center and a cardiac receiving center. We are a high-volume ED treating a variety of medical and cardiac conditions with 46 beds and approximately 58,000 visits per year. We are the home of Flight for Life Colorado and surrounding areas bring around 1,000 patients from medical to trauma. We are a desirable department as we are the Premier Level I ED, Emergency Services Association Lantern Award recipient, providing exemplary care, ANCC equivalent of a Magnet, and we attract the best and brightest as an exemplary model department, recognized on national level of being the top one percent. We look for candidates with strong teamwork capabilities, collaboration, flexibility, and servant leadership, who can foster a warm and caring environment. Located in Lakewood, Colorado, St. Anthony Hospital is a Level I Trauma Center where we provide a full range of medical specialties and health care services to Denver and the surrounding region through our state-of-the-art medical campus and home base for Flight For Life Colorado. With four trauma rooms including the T-10 room, a dedicated field-to-surgery suite ready 24/7 for trauma surgeons and specially trained teams, our staff can provide life-saving care to the most severely ill and injured patients. In 2023, we received our exciting Magnet designation! We are so proud of our staff for this achievement, which is awarded to only 10 percent of hospitals around the world. Numerous other awards, certifications, and accreditations have been granted to us from the American Heart Association; Chest Pain Center (CPC); American College of Cardiology; The Joint Commission's National Quality Approval; the Emergency Nurses Association Lantern Award; NAPBC Accreditation; American College of Radiology and many others. At St. Anthony Hospital. We combine a heritage of expert care with the latest in technology and innovation. If you’re looking to be part of a fast-paced environment where you can practice to the top of your profession in trauma, cardiology, stroke, neurosciences, breast imaging, cancer/oncology care, surgery and more, we invite you to apply.

Pay Range

$36.51 - $59.00 /hour