Registered Nurse

• Location 822 W 4TH ST,Leadville, CO, ,United States
• Base Pay $40.00 - $50.00 / Hour
• Required Degree 2 Year Degree

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Registered Nurse-PRN position. The position involves 12-hour shifts, 7 PM-7 AM or 7 AM-7 PM, in the emergency room and ACU floor.

Benefits available are paid sick time and 403B retirement

Accepting applications on an ongoing basis

• Current Colorado RN license / Current RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact.
• Current BLS, ACLS, and PALS certifications from American Heart Association are required.
• Current TNCC certification is preferred.
• Current CEN certification is preferred.
• NRP certification is preferred.
• Good organizational skills.
• Physical requirements, ability to lift, push, and pull up to 50 pounds frequently.
• Ability to follow verbal and written directions.
• Good interpersonal and customer relation skills.
• Ability to make decisions under pressure.
• Manage stress appropriately.
• Manage anger/fear/hostility/violence of others appropriately.
• Work independently and handle multiple priorities.

Assumes responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and the patient/family to identify and meet the patient's physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. The nursing process, patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act promote the patient's optimal health, well-being, and safety. It also demonstrates personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.

Please review the specific addendum, if applicable.

• Uses Emergency Department and Dual Track Emergency Department Guidelines of care, hospital policies/procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide work within the scope of practice.
• Initiates standards of care based on chief complaint and the Emergency Severity Index while adhering to policy.
• Coordinates care of patients with the provider and ancillary departments
• Stock and clean Emergency Department rooms and specified areas.
• Participate in designated quality initiatives and assignments as directed.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Assess the patient's physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records, and clinical data.
• Evaluate the patient’s response and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcome.
• Develop and implement a patient plan of care and observe outcomes by nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate competency in various therapeutic/diagnostic interventions, including but not limited to IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
• Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect each patient's health safety and rights.
• Provide patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning, readiness, needs, and ability.
• Provide patient teaching and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.
• Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
• Develop relationship-based care in which the nurse strives to understand what is most important to the individual and actively engagethemr in all aspects of care.
• This care will be delivered with respect for cultural differences and the diversity of human experience.

• Delegates to non-RN personnel by State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
• Effectively uses time, personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
• Professional role model for all…