RN Emergency Room

About the Role

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will facilitate, communicate, and collaborate with the healthcare team and patient/family to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient. You will promote optimal patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, adhering to patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act. This role demonstrates personal accountability for relationship-based care and our organizational mission.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient's physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records, and clinical data.
• Evaluate patient's response and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
• Develop and implement a patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including, but not limited to, IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
• Maintain thorough and confidential patient charts and records.
• Document ongoing status, interventions, patient response, and outcomes accurately and timely.
• Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
• Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient.
• Provide patient/family education through assessment of learning readiness, needs, and ability.
• Provide teaching and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.

Requirements

• Associate Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma (or by endorsement).
• RN License in the state of employment.
• Physical ability to perform medium work: exert/lift up to 50 lbs. force occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs. frequently, and/or up to 10 lbs. constantly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
• One (1) year of experience.

About the Workplace

St. Thomas More Hospital, a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital, is the cornerstone of healthcare services for Fremont County and surrounding southern Colorado communities. The hospital offers:

• 24-hour emergency and trauma services.
• Inpatient acute care and intensive care.
• Labor, delivery, and nursery care.
• Multi-modal diagnostic imaging.
• Inpatient and outpatient surgical services.
• Rehabilitation services.
• Cardiopulmonary rehab and diagnostics.
• Sleep studies.
• An infusion center and wound care.
• A community blood bank.

Our mission is to provide high-quality care with zero harm to patients and employees. Our board-certified physicians specialize in emergency medicine, internal medicine, urology, bariatric services, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, and osteopathic treatment.

Employees enjoy the camaraderie of a close-knit community hospital, the relaxed feel of small-town life, and an affordable cost of living. Located about 50 miles from Colorado Springs at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Canon City offers some of the state's best hiking, wildlife viewing, rafting, camping, fishing, climbing, and mountain biking. The area features an assortment of restaurants, breweries, and summer Farmer's Markets.

Pay

$32.01 - $57.62 per hour.

Schedule

Full time (nights).