Registered Nurse Operating Room

Commonspirit-Health; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Penrose Hospital is seeking a Registered Nurse to collaborate with the healthcare team and patient/family, addressing physical, emotional, and spiritual needs with compassionate care. You will promote patient safety and apply nursing processes in a mission-driven environment.

We offer a $20,000 sign-on bonus and up to $8,000 in relocation assistance for eligible new hires, with opportunities to contribute across a busy surgical department serving adult patients in a range of specialties.

Qualifications

• Associates Degree in Nursing (or Nursing Diploma) required.
• RN License in state of employment required.
• Physical qualifications: medium work with lifting up to 50 lbs occasionally and up to 20 lbs frequently.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs and intervene accordingly.
• Develop and monitor patient plan of care with interdisciplinary team.
• Provide nursing interventions including IV therapy, wound care, med administration, catheterization, and specimen collection.
• Maintain accurate patient records and communicate using IT systems.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Associate degree in Nursing

Nursing Diploma

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 up to $8,000 relocation assistance 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 (1) year experience

Where You'll Work

The Surgery Department at Penrose Hospital has 16 OR suites and performs 30 – 40 cases per day. We specialize in heart, vascular, general, gynecology, urology, ortho, spine, neuro, plastics, robotics, and trauma procedures on adult patients only. Our department's mission is to provide the best possible patient care. People would want to join our team due to teamwork, culture, and CNOR certification pay. We are looking for dedicated, hard-working team players.