Registered Nurse Float Team

As part of the Clinical Resource (CR) Team, the Clinical Nurse serves as a system-wide resource, providing patient care within defined cohort areas: Acute Care, Critical Care, Emergency/Network of Care, and/or Ambulatory clinical areas.

Responsibilities

• Delivers patient and family centered nursing care in one or more clinical areas while incorporating developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence-based care practices and methodologies.
• Anticipates and responds to changes in patient outcomes in the provision of care.
• Communicates and advocates patient values, preferences, and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care, and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team.
• Initiates and anticipates individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.
• Communicates unit/department specific information to appropriate stakeholders to support patient care and overall operations.
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with multidisciplinary healthcare providers to provide individualized patient/family care and education while minimizing risks to the patient during transitions of care.
• Researches, compiles, and analyzes data and prepares case records, reports, and correspondence to facilitate communication, clinical decision making, error prevention, and care coordination.
• Collects, monitors, and reports on quality of care outcomes and measures; provides input into the continuous evaluation and improvement of internal quality and safety processes, procedures, and performance measures.
• Ensures compliance with clinical policies, procedures, and best practices to minimize the risk of harm to patients and providers.
• Researches, identifies, and implements evidence-based practice to improve the quality of care provided to patients/families.
• Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Acts as an agent of change within the organization, supports professional development, and advances organizational goals.
• Fosters the sharing of best practices and advances in clinical care between clinical areas of practice.
• Builds and fosters collaborative relationships between areas of clinical practice.
• Serves as an ambassador for the Staffing Resource Team by seeking feedback and recommendations on how the team can support units/departments in achieving their goals/objectives.
• Communicates areas of opportunities to improve professional practice to key stakeholder groups with the goal of advancing healthcare outcomes.
• Complies with and abides by the unit/department specific policies, practices, and procedures.
• Actively engages in unit/department activities while providing services in that area.
• Continuously seeks opportunities to advance knowledge and skills to provide timely, efficient, effective, safe, and person-centered care in assigned areas.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN).
• Two years of pediatric nursing experience aligned to cohort. Pediatric Critical Care experience preferred.
• Current Colorado Registered Nurse (RN) license.
• BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association with at least 6 months left before expiration is required upon hire.
• ACLS and PALS required within six months of hire.

Schedule

• Multiple FTEs available. Must work 20 hours/week to be eligible for benefits.
• Acute Care cohort - Night shift 6:45pm-7:15am.
• Critical Care cohort - Night shift 6:45pm-7:15am.

Pay

Hourly range: $38.34 to $57.51 per hour. Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Eligible for up to $4,400.00 in relocation benefits (100 miles or greater) for qualifying positions.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits package including base pay, incentives, and paid sick leave.
• Robust wellness program.
• Annual employee bonus program based on organizational performance (paid the following April if goals are met).
• Annual base pay increases based on performance over the previous year.