Registered Nurse ACE; Acute Care Elderly Medical Unit

Job Description:

At Good Samaritan Hospital, our ACE (Acute Care for the Elderly) Medical Unit is dedicated to delivering exceptional, patient-centered care to older adults in the acute care setting. We specialize in caring for patients age 65 and older with medical and select surgical diagnoses, focusing on the unique needs of this vulnerable population.

Our ACE program is one of only two in Colorado, offering a highly specialized model of care designed to preserve function, promote independence, and enhance overall patient outcomes. Through individualized, holistic care plans, our team addresses the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial needs of each patient.

What makes our unit unique:

• A dedicated full-time Mobility Technician to support early and progressive mobility
• Interdisciplinary rounds that ensure collaborative, comprehensive care planning
• Strong partnership with our Volunteer Services team to enhance patient experience
• A consistent focus on function, safety, and maintaining independence

Why join our team?
We pride ourselves on a close-knit, supportive work environment where respect, collaboration, and accountability are at the core of everything we do. Our team values open communication, shared decision-making, and continuous professional growth.

If you are passionate about geriatric care and want to make a meaningful impact in a specialized, high-performing unit where your voice is valued, we encourage you to apply.

Essential Functions

Night Shift

• 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 interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others.
• Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care. Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop 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 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 participate 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.

Skills

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

Minimum Qualifications

• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
• RNs with less than 12 months of experience must obtain their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within four (4) years of their hire date.
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN). Education must be obtained from an accredited…