RN Clinic

Commonspirit-Health; Longmont (CO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Longmont United Hospital is seeking an experienced Clinic Registered Nurse to support ambulatory care, collaborate with the healthcare team, and engage patients and families in self-management.

You will promote health, well-being, and safety through nursing processes and adherence to standards, acting with accountability within a mission-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Associate Degree in Nursing and an active RN license.
• BLS certification through the American Heart Association.
• Ability to perform physical requirements listed in job posting.
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Nursing and 1 year of experience.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs.
• Evaluate patient responses and intervene to optimize outcomes.
• Develop and implement patient care plans with the interdisciplinary team.
• Perform therapeutic/diagnostic tasks including IVs, wound care, meds, catheterization, specimen collection.
• Educate patients and families, assess learning readiness, and document care.
• Provide teaching, advocate for patient health and safety, and maintain charts and records.
• Document status, interventions, and outcomes; use IT to communicate and support decisions.

Skills

Ambulatory care nursing

Case management

Care coordination

Clinical nursing acumen

Education

Associate Degree in Nursing

Bachelor Degree in Nursing

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Clinic RN, you will assume responsibility for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and patients/families, utilizing best practices to maximize patient engagement and self-management efforts.
Every day you will promote the optimal health, well-being, and safety of patients through the nursing process, adhering to patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act, all while demonstrating personal accountability for relationship-based care and organizational mission.
To be successful in this role, you will be a Registered Nurse with strong clinical nursing acumen in ambulatory care, knowledge of community health concepts, and expertise in case management and care coordination.

• Assesses 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.
• Provide patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness, needs, and ability.
  
• Provide teaching and evaluate effectiveness of teaching. Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health and safety and rights of each patient. Thorough and confidential maintenance of patient charts and records.
  
• Document ongoing status, interventions, patient response and outcomes in accurate, timely manner.
  
• Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decisionmaking.

Job Requirements

Required

• Associate Degree in Nursing Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing
  
• Current state RN license/ Current RN license from a participating state in National Licensure Compact
  
• BLS through American Heart Association
• Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly
  

Preferred

• Bachelor Degree in Nursing
• One (1) year experience

Where You'll Work

At Longmont United Hospital, we treat the entire patient to leverage the powerful connection of body, mind, and spirit in the healing process. As a Planetree Designated Hospital, employees adhere to the highest possible standards. Here, your time at work will be spent with a supportive team of employees and leaders that value self-care, flexibility and development opportunities through cross-training and continuing education. Longmont, Colorado is home to more than 2,000 acres of parks, three public golf courses and numerous trails to hike, bike, walk or run. Located less than an hour away from the Rocky Mountain National Park (ranked the fourth most visited national park in the country in 2017 by the Denver Business Journal), you'll have easy access to the very best