RN

CommonSpirit Health

9d • Onsite

About The Position

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

The role includes assessing patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs; evaluating responses to care and intervening to support optimal outcomes; and developing and implementing plans of care with the interdisciplinary team. The RN performs therapeutic and diagnostic interventions, maintains confidential and accurate patient records, uses information technology to support communication and decision-making, advocates for patient health, safety, and rights, and provides and evaluates patient and family education.

The position is based at Mercy Hospital, an 82-bed acute care hospital in Durango, Colorado. Mercy provides a range of specialty services, including emergency, surgical, cardiac, orthopedic and spine, family birthing, home care, and hospice services.

Requirements

• Associate Degree in Nursing, nursing diploma, or RN licensure by endorsement.
• RN license in the state of employment.
• Commitment to compassionate, high-quality patient care.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to apply the nursing process effectively.

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 status, interventions, patient responses, and outcomes accurately and in a timely manner.
• Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
• Promote, advocate for, and collaborate to protect each patient’s health, safety, and rights.
• Assess patient and family learning readiness, needs, and ability; provide education and evaluate its effectiveness.

What This Job Offers

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