Neuro Trauma ICU Registered Nurse

As our RN, you will assume responsibility for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and patient/family to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient, advancing modern nursing through compassionate care.

As our RN, you will assume responsibility for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and patient/family to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient, advancing modern nursing through compassionate care.

Every day you will promote optimal patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, adhering to patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act, and demonstrating personal accountability for relationship-based care and our organizational mission.

To be successful in this role, you will be a Registered Nurse with a commitment to compassionate, high-quality patient care, strong communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to apply the nursing process effectively within a supportive, mission-driven environment.

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

• 90 FTE-FT nights-7pm-7:30am
• This is not a new grad position. This role requires RN experience. If you are a new grad, please apply to the RN residency for consideration.

• Associates Degree in Nursing;
  Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• Active and unencumbered RN License in state of employment
• Two years of recent RN inpatient hospital experience
• BLS from AHA
• ACLS from AHA within 6 months
• NIHSS within 6 months
• TCAR or TNCC within one year of hire
• Physical Requirements:
  
  Medium Work exert/lift up to 50 lbs. force occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs. frequently, and/or up to 10lbs. constantly

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing
• CCRN

The Neuro Trauma Intensive Care Unit department hony Hospital, one of our achieved Magnet® hospitals, with 24 in the NTICU . The primary focus in NTICU is trauma and neuro trauma. Our typical patient diagnoses are MVA/MCA, TBI, penetrating trauma, assaults, SDH, SAH, IVH, SCI and orthopedic fractures. We work very closely with our physician groups to collaborate on care. Nursing is well respected and a vital part of the care team for the patient.

We have a strong culture of teamwork within the unit and have developed a well-rounded residency program for bringing in new nurses to the ICU.

Located in Lakewood, Colorado, St. Anthony Hospital is a Level I Trauma Center where we provide a…