Registered Nurse Emergency Room

St Anthony Hospital; Lakewood (CO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Relocation assistance

Job summary

St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado, seeks a Registered Nurse for its Emergency Department. The RN will collaborate with the healthcare team to provide compassionate, high-quality care, aligning with state nursing practice acts and organizational mission.

The role emphasizes patient safety, thorough documentation, and teaching families. Required ed/experience are listed; the hospital is Magnet-designated and known for top-tier trauma and cardiac services.

Qualifications

• Associate Degree in Nursing is required.
• Nursing Diploma or endorsement acceptable.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation and records review.
• Evaluate patient responses and intervene to optimize outcomes; develop and monitor care plans.
• Perform and document nursing interventions (IVs, wound care, medications, catheterization, specimen collection).
• Maintain accurate charts and use IT to communicate and support decision-making.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Compassionate patient care

Education

Associate Degree in Nursing

Nursing Diploma or by endorsement

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

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.

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

Job Requirements

Required

• Associates Degree in Nursing; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• Active and unencumbered 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
• One year of recent RN ED experience
• BLS from AHA
• ACLS from AHA
• ENPC or PALS required
• NIHSS required
• NRP required
• TNCC required (or within one year from hire)

Preferred

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing
• CEN

Where You'll Work

The Emergency Department at St. Anthony Hospital, one of our proud Magnet® designated 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-arts 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.