Registered Nurse NICU

Base pay range

$37.00/hr - $56.00/hr

The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of patients. The RN utilizes the nursing process by using technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence‑based practice and coordination of care with other health team members.

• 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 interdisciplinary team members such as patient, family, physician, and non‑nursing disciplines.
• Plan:
  Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care. Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met.
• Implement:
  Directs the Land 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つ priorities and coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effective time, supplies, and resource management.
• Evaluate:
  Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals and clinical outcomes. Revises plan of care as indicated and reassesses changes as appropriate.
• Professionalism:
  Promotes nursing practice and participates in the development of others destabilizes legal and ethical standards into practiceногие compliance with regulatory standards, practice within scope of licensure, provides accurate documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.

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

• 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 a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within four (4) years of hire date.
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.

• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN). Education must be obtained from an accredited institution and will be verified.
• 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 to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors and 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, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy, including frequent computer use and typing for documentation, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients and carry supplies of varying weight, including heavy items.
• Need to walk, assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipmentployer includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment.
• May be required to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
• For roles requiring driving:
  Expected to drive a vehicle requiring sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals and other vehicles.

Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital, Wheat Ridge, Colorado

24 hours

$37.17 - $56.17 per hour (actual rate depends on experience)

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