*Wages are based on average rates and may be impacted by facility budgets and seasonality and may include a combination of taxable and non-taxable earnings and reimbursements.
Position Overview:
The Registered Nurse coordinates the plan of care, provides direct
age-appropriate nursing interventions, and patient education by collaborating
with ancillary and other patient-team personnel. Directs LPNs, CNAs, and ward
secretaries/technicians. Works under the supervision of the nurse manager
and/or nursing supervisor. Specific to the Family Center, the RN provides
comprehensive, family centered care in the areas of antepartum, low and high
risk obstetrical patients, medical/surgical patients, well newborn and selected
high risk newborns.
Essential Functions:
a) Uses acceptable standards of practice based on nursing process
and theory to help the
individual/family/group with complex and unpredictable needs.
Identify and meet basic age-appropriate health needs. The nurse coordinates
care of the individual/family/group using a multidisciplinary holistic approach.
b) Promotes a climate in which consumers can act in their own
interest or intervenes when they are unable to do so.
c) Uses the nursing process and theory to provide age-appropriate
individual/family/guardian/designated surrogate education using a wide range
of teaching activities to promote health.
d) Works to achieve desired health care outcomes by effectively
utilizing human and material resources.
e) Is accountable for the ethical, legal and professional
responsibilities related to nursing practice across all roles, within the
scope of practice.
Physical Demands and
Working Conditions:
Physical Demands: Ability
to lift twenty (20) pounds. Moving, lifting or transferring of patients may
involve lifting of up to fifty (50) pounds, as well as assist with weights of
more than one-hundred (100) pounds. Ability to stand for extended periods.
Fine motor skills. Visual acuity.
Qualifications
& Skills:
a)
Education: Graduated RN,
ADN, diploma, BSN nursing program, with a current or pending Colorado nursing
license.
b)
Training and Experience:
BCLS required. NRP required within 6 months of hire. STABLE and Fetal
Monitoring recommended.
c)
Job Knowledge: Encompasses
a wide range of nursing, psycho-social and medical information which includes
nursing process, communications and problem-solving, assessment and
prioritizing skills.