Registered Nurse ICU

Job Summary and Responsibilities

$8,000 in relocation assistance may be available depending on location.

Nurses are at the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success. We offer certification pay and a clinical career ladder to help you grow and recognize your contributions to clinical excellence!

Here you will help advance modern nursing by providing your skills, experience, and commitment to compassionate care. The impact you will make in our faith-based, mission-driven culture will cultivate excellence and achieve professional fulfillment united in human kindness.

As a Registered Nurse (RN) you will assume responsibility and accountability for:

• Facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
• Promote the optimal health, well‑being and safety of the patient through use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act.
• Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship‑based care, organizational mission, and core values.

In addition to bringing human kindness to the workplace each day, qualified nursing candidates will need the following:

• Associate’s Degree in Nursing required;
  Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred
• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required for new graduates, preferred for experienced RNs

• One year experience preferred
• Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty

• RN License required; current state nursing license or valid RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact

• Medium work – may exert up to 50 lbs force occasionally, up to 20 lbs frequently, and up to 10 lbs constantly

Mercy Hospital is an 82-bed, acute care hospital located in the scenic southwestern Colorado town of Durango. It is the only hospital in Colorado to be rated by Medicare with five stars for overall hospital quality. It is recognized for excellence in orthopedic and spine surgery and for outstanding patient experience and patient safety. Mercy has also received ten consecutive ‘A’ grades for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group.

Our providers use state-of-the-art technology in an environment designed to promote wellbeing and healing of body, mind, and spirit. Among the many specialty services available at Mercy are emergency care (Level III trauma designation), surgical care, cardiac care (including interventional), orthopedic and spine centers of excellence, a family birthing center, home care, hospice care and more. Durango offers an exceptional quality of life with small town charm, excellent schools, and year‑round, world‑class outdoor recreation opportunities including snow sports, river sports, hiking, biking, camping and more.