Registered Nurse NICU

St Anthony North Hospital; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 50,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

St Anthony North Hospital is seeking a Registered Nurse to collaborate with the healthcare team to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients and families. You will promote safe, compassionate care and adhere to nursing standards and the State Nurse Practice Act.

You will assess needs, implement plans, and document outcomes while educating patients and families. A sign-on bonus of $20,000 is offered for eligible new hires.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to apply the nursing process effectively within a team-based environment.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient’s physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs and intervene to ensure optimal outcomes.
• Develop and implement patient plan of care with the interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate competency in IVs, wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collection.
• Maintain patient charts and document status and interventions accurately; use IT to support decision-making.
• Promote and advocate for patient health, safety, and rights.
• Provide patient/family education and assess teaching effectiveness.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Nursing process

Education

Associates Degree in Nursing

Nursing Diploma

Endorsement

Bachelor's degree (preferred)

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 bonus in addition to new hires who meet the eligibility requirements.

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 year NICU RN level 2 or 3 experience
• Mom Baby experience and transition experience

Where You'll Work

We have a 7-9 bed level 2 NICU. We keep 32 weeks and above, however, with being located right off I-25 we see all gestations.The APP is in house 24/7 and theneonatologist roundsin persondaily. Our unit is unique because all of our NICU nurses function in the transition and postpartum role. This allows for a very cohesive and close team!We will thoroughly train you and make sure you are comfortable and competent!

Due to the structure and size of our NICU and fluctuations in NICU census, the NICU team is expected to cross train to PP and the transition RN role. You will receive an orientation to that role and we will support your learning needs to ensure you feel comfortable coming off orientation.

For more than 50 years, St. Anthony North Hospital has delivered optimal health care to the communities of Westminster, Erie, Brighton, Broomfield, Northglenn and Thornton. Highlights of our campus include 60,000 square feet of integrated primary and specialty care physician clinics, ambulatory surgery center, birthing center with private birthing suites, Level III Trauma Center with 24/7 emergency services, over 150 inpatient beds and an outpatient diagnostics center with lab and imaging services. In 2023, we received our prestigious Magnet designation! We are so proud of our nursing staff for this achievement, which is awarded to less than 6 percent of hospitals in the United States. Built on the pillars of convenience, wellness and person-centered care, we offer inpatient and outpatient care at one site, with an emphasis on preventive health, wellness and health education.

Pay Range

$36.51 - $59.00 /hour