Registered Nurse OP Procedural

St Anthony Hospital; United States; On-site; USD 78,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado, a Level I Trauma Center, seeks an RN to join a fast-paced team focused on top-of-license care for trauma, cardiology, and surgery patients.

You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary staff to promote patient health, safety, and compassionate care. Responsibilities include assessing needs, planning and delivering care, documenting interventions, and educating patients and families.

Qualifications

• Associates Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma; RN license required.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Experience with trauma, PACU, ER, or procedural care a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient's physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs.
• Develop and implement patient plan of care with interdisciplinary team.
• Document interventions and patient outcomes accurately and timely.
• Use information technology to communicate and support decision-making.
• Provide patient/family education and advocacy.

Skills

Patient care

IV skills

Documentation

Collaboration

Teaching patients

Education

Associate Degree in Nursing

Nursing Diploma or endorsement

Tools

Epic

EHR systems

Job description

Where You'll Work

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 LifeColorado. 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.

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.

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
• Experience working in a PACU, ER or procedural area with strong IV skills