Registered Nurse Intermediate Mixed Acuity Care Unit

Job Description

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 through the use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice, and coordination of care with other health team members.

• Assess: Perform appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate). Seek and evaluate information acquired from other members of the interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non‑nursing disciplines, support staff.
• Plan: Use assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care. Actively seek patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education. Collaboratively plan and prepare patients for further support needs once current episode of care outcomes are met.
• Implement: Direct the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate. Provide or delegate care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care, and professional licensure provisions. Demonstrate the ability to set priorities and coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effective time, supplies, and resource management.
• Evaluate: Evaluate patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient and family satisfaction. Revise plan of care as indicated and reassess changes as appropriate.
• Professionalism: Promote the nursing profession and participate in development of others. Integrate legal and ethical standards into practice, comply with regulatory standards, practice within scope of licensure, provide accurate and timely documentation, and understand legal implications of care delivery.

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

• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the 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) from an accredited institution.
• BSN is required as of the job description's last update on 4/27/2025; employees hired or promoted prior to this date will be held to the minimum requirements that were in place at the time of their promotion or hire.

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 verbal communication, hearing and understanding spoken information, alarms, and needs quickly and accurately, especially during emergencies. Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex equipment with precision; includes frequent computer use and typing.

Expected to lift, transfer, and carry patients and supplies up to heavy items, walk and assist with transporting patients, push/pull gurneys and equipment, navigate crowded rooms, and stand for extended periods. For roles requiring driving: expected to operate a vehicle, including seat, seeing, reading signs and traffic signals.

Saint Joseph Hospital

Location:

Denver, Colorado

Scheduled weekly hours: 40

Hourly rate: $37.45 – $57.29

Sign‑on bonus: $20,000 for experienced RNs.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.