Registered Nurse Med Surg

CommonSpirit Health; Fort Morgan (CO); On-site; USD 44,096 - 79,377; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

On-site childcare

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health seeks a Registered Nurse at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Fort Morgan, Colorado. You will provide compassionate, patient-centered care, coordinating with the healthcare team to meet physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Responsibilities include assessments, care planning, interventions, documentation, and patient/family education within a mission-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Associate Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma/endorsement.
• Active and unencumbered RN license in the state of employment.
• One year of inpatient RN experience.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient needs across physical, psychosocial, cultural and spiritual domains.
• Evaluate patient responses and intervene to optimize outcomes.
• Develop and implement the plan of care with the interdisciplinary team.
• Perform therapeutic/diagnostic tasks (IVs, wound care, meds, catheterization, specimen collection).
• Maintain accurate and confidential patient records.
• Document status, interventions and outcomes timely.
• Use IT to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
• Advocate for patient safety and rights in collaboration with the care team.
• Educate patients and families based on learning readiness and needs.
• Evaluate effectiveness of teaching provided to patients/families.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Education

Associate Degree in Nursing

Nursing Diploma or endorsement

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (preferred)

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

Depending on your location, you may be eligible for up to $8,000 in relocation assistance. As our RN, you will facilitate communication and collaboration 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: Associate Degree in Nursing; Nursing Diploma or endorsement; Active and unencumbered RN license in the state of employment; One year recent inpatient RN experience.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
• Physical Requirements: Medium work — exert up to 50 lbs force occasionally, up to 20 lbs frequently, up to 10 lbs constantly.

Where You'll Work

St. Elizabeth Hospital, located in Fort Morgan, Colorado, is a Level III Trauma Center and an American College of Cardiology Accredited Chest Pain Center serving northeastern Colorado. Our hospital offers a comprehensive range of services, including cardiology, maternal, emergency, surgical, pediatrics, and acute inpatient care, as well as a multitude of subspecialists across our specialty clinics. As a 50‑bed facility, St. Elizabeth serves as the region’s referral center for northeastern Colorado. Since 1952, we have proudly served Morgan County, one of Colorado's most diverse counties, where more than 28 languages are spoken.

Benefits

Pay Range: $32.01 - $57.62 per hour. Relocation support, comprehensive benefits, tuition reimbursement, and on‑site childcare at the St. Elizabeth Hospital campus available to employees at 50% off.