Registered Nurse IMC

CommonSpirit Health

3d

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) facilitates communication and collaboration among the healthcare team, the patient, and the patient’s family to meet the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. The RN promotes patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, follows patient-care standards and guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act, and demonstrates accountability for relationship-based care and the organization’s mission.

Responsibilities include assessing patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs; evaluating responses to care and intervening to support optimal outcomes; and developing and implementing care plans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. The RN performs therapeutic and diagnostic interventions, maintains confidential patient records, and documents patient status, interventions, responses, and outcomes accurately and promptly.

The position is at Mercy Hospital, an 82-bed acute care hospital in Durango, Colorado, with services including emergency, surgical, cardiac, orthopedic and spine, maternity, home care, and hospice care.

Requirements

• Associate degree in Nursing, nursing diploma, or RN licensure by endorsement.
• RN license in the state of employment.
• Physical ability to perform medium work: exert or lift up to 50 pounds occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds constantly.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• One year of experience.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and review of medical records and clinical data.
• Evaluate patients’ responses and intervene to support optimal outcomes.
• Develop and implement patient care plans and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Perform therapeutic and diagnostic interventions, including IVs, incision and wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collection.
• Maintain patient charts and records thoroughly and confidentially.
• Document ongoing patient status, interventions, responses, and outcomes accurately and promptly.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree