Travel Rn - Medicine Specialty - $2,238 Per Week

Mercy is seeking a compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) to join our Healthcare & Medical Services team. In this role, you will deliver evidence-based, patient-centered care across diverse clinical settings, collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, high-quality outcomes. Responsibilities include assessing patients, administering medications, developing care plans, and educating patients and families. Mercy’s culture emphasizes compassion, diversity, and innovation, offering continuous learning, career advancement, and the opportunity to participate in lifesaving healthcare initiatives across the Midwest.

The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the 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.

Essential Functions

• Assess: Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate).
• Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care.
• 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.
• Evaluate: Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals and clinical outcomes.
• Professionalism: Promotes nursing profession and participates in development of others, complies with regulatory standards, and ensures accurate & timely documentation.

Skills

• Patient Care Delivery
• Nursing Fundamentals
• Interdisciplinary Teams
• Documentation
• Professional Etiquette
• Accountability
• Communication
• 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 institution. Degree will be verified.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity required to manipulate equipment and documents, with frequent computer use.
• Physical ability to lift and transfer patients and to move supplies and equipment as needed.
• Ability to drive or travel as required by the role.

Location

Good Samaritan Hospital, Lafayette, Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours

36

Salary

$37.45 - $57.29 per hour

Benefits

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – and provide a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a culture of wellness.