Charge Nurse, Family Birth Center Vail, Colorado

• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 3 x 12 hour shifts
• Company:
  Vail Health
• Location: 180 South Frontage Road West
• Office:
  Vail
• Department:
  Labor Delivery
• Salary Range:$43.43 - $69.28
• Estimated Application Close Date (actual date may be sooner):12-31-2025

Vail Health has become the world’s most advanced mountain healthcare system. Vail Health consists of an updated 520,000-square-foot, 56-bed hospital. This state-of-the-art facility provides exceptional care to all of our patients, with the most beautiful views in the area, located centrally in Vail. Learn more about Vail Health here .

The hospital located, quite literally, at the base of Vail Mountain where one can enjoy world-class skiing and snowboarding. From the patient room windows experience front-row views of the mountain slopes. The winter here is unbeatable, but the summers are the real hidden gem. Surrounded by towering Aspens, with rivers and creeks to play in, and a temperate climate, it’s hard to ever leave.

Become part of our tight-knit Family Birth Center RN team and stay for this unbeatable lifestyle. In general, we care for a healthy population of mothers and infants in our 7+ bed LDRP unit. We have many low-risk deliveries, but the care team also manages preterm births, preeclampsia and other high-risk obstetric conditions. We boast a single-suite OR for family-centered cesarean sections.

Our Level II nursery admits babies that are 32+ weeks gestation. All our nurses take STABLE and are NRP certified, so we are fully equipped to stabilize 32+ week gestation infants for transport when necessary. The nurses here practice with high autonomy but have 24/7 on-call support by an NNP and OB provider, when not in-house. For further employment incentive, Vail Health employees are eligible for a $1000 wellness credit that can be used for an extensive list of wellness purchases like a ski pass, gym memberships, sporting equipment, massages—to name a few.

During breaks, RNs can visit Vail Health’s Zen Den, which is outfitted with aromatherapy and massage chairs to help them refresh and restore before returning to the bedside to provide top-notch patient care. Employees have access to an onsite employee gym open around the clock. And, as a Vail Health employee you can attend one yoga session per week at a local studio, free of charge.

Don’t let mountain living remain a dream, make it a reality. Apply now to put your advanced knowledge and skills to use, joining our vision of being the leading mountain healthcare system attracting the best talent to advance quality health for everyone in our communities.

This is a night shift position, working 7 pm to 7 am. Night shift differential available.

About the opportunity:

Provide direction and supervision to other staff caring for patients in the unit. Organize, coordinate, and facilitate patient care. Collaborate with providers, staff, and other members of the team to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

What you will do:

• Maintain daily operational aspects of the unit. Manage nurse/patient ratios to ensure safe, quality care and financial responsibility. Manage resources to minimize overtime.
• Serve as a resource in the provision of care, providing staff supervision and fostering professional growth. Serve as the unit expert and resource to staff and physicians. Utilize appropriate resources as necessary. Apprize Unit Director/Manager of any issues outside of normal practice standards.
• Act as role model for high level of nursing professionalism and application, while moving the patient efficiently through the care continuum. Function as a member/leader of the interdisciplinary care delivery team.
• Provide expert level of patient assessment to include biophysical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, environmental, self-care and discharge/transfer needs, care planning, and intervention while embracing Relationship-Based Care delivery model. Research and implement evidence-based care appropriate to the care setting. Practice according to VVMC Nursing Professional Model of Care
• Participate in the interviewing, monitoring, coaching, precepting, evaluating, and disciplining processes. Coaches in private and commends in public.…