Registered Nurse - Community Health; RN

Job Description

The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care of patients. The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence‑based practice, and coordination of care with other health team members.

Birth Center of Denver is a midwife‑led birth center providing evidence‑based, compassionate and supportive care to women and families in the Denver and surrounding areas. We offer prenatal care, customized education classes, labor support, water birth, postpartum and newborn care up to 14 days. Centering Pregnancy is our standard model of prenatal care. This group‑based approach to prenatal care combines belly checks with time for discussion and shared learning about pregnancy, birth and babies and is focused on building a community with other pregnant parents.

We offer a home‑like space outside of a hospital that focuses on a highly supportive and unmedicated childbirth experience and a luxurious environment with little intervention to support a more natural approach to birth. We have beautifully decorated and spacious suites with spa‑like amenities including an oversized tub for water births, a queen‑size bed, and a separate area for loved ones to gather within the same suite.

Birth Center of Denver is owned by Saint Joseph Hospital and operates independently as a 5‑bed licensed freestanding birth center. Should any what‑ifs arise, we have the full benefit of having Saint Joe’s in our backyard, allowing for seamless transitions to the hospital if needed.

The Birth Center RN role is a salaried exempt position and provides opportunities to work to the top of your scope and work with an incredible clinical team. You will be scheduled for day, night, and weekend shifts and will have the opportunity to take call from home if there is not anyone in labor. You must be at the birth center within a 30‑minute call response time.

Your hours will be set up alongside our midwife schedules, as there is a CNM/RN call schedule model.

• Assess: Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate). Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of the interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non‑nursing disciplines, support staff, others.
• Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop an individualized plan of care. Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop the plan of care including needed education. Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow‑up).
• Implement: Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate. Provides or delegates care consistent with the plan of care, guidelines of care, and professional licensure provisions. Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources.
• Evaluate: Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient, and family satisfaction. Revises plan of care as indicated and reassesses changes as appropriate.
• Professionalism: Promotes nursing profession and participates in development of others. Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice, complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate & timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.

• Patient Care Delivery
• Nursing Fundamentals
• Interdisciplinary Teams
• Documentation
• Professional Etiquette
• Accountability
• Patient Care Coordination
• Communication
• Patient Evaluation
• Critical Thinking

• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must…