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Guaranteed Interview for any licensed Registered Nurse- Thursdays 1:30pm-4:00pm
If you're looking for a rewarding Emergency Department career where you'll be valued as both a clinician and a teammate, we'd love to welcome you to our team.
What You'll Need:
- At minimum, Associates degree in nursing. BSN is preferred.
- Current active Colorado Registered Nurse license.
- Previous Critical Access Hospital or rural emergency nursing experience preferred.
- Trauma and emergency care experience preferred.
- At minimum, current AHA and BLS Certification, required upon hire.
- Emergency Department Requirements: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
What You'll Do:
- Rapidly assess, triage, and prioritize patients presenting with emergent and urgent conditions.
- Deliver evidence-based emergency nursing care to pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients.
- Stabilize trauma and critically ill patients utilizing advanced assessment and critical thinking skills.
- Collaborate closely with Emergency Department providers, EMS, respiratory therapy, laboratory, radiology, and the interdisciplinary care team.
- Assist with emergency procedures, trauma resuscitations, conscious sedation, and life-saving interventions.
- Administer medications, blood products, IV therapy, and emergency treatments safely and accurately.
- Monitor, reassess, and document patient responses throughout their emergency department stay.
- Coordinate transfers to higher levels of care when appropriate.
- Maintain a calm, compassionate presence while delivering exceptional patient- and family-centered care.
- Support quality improvement, trauma readiness, patient safety initiatives, and evidence-based practice.
We Take Care of Our People
As the largest employer in the San Luis Valley, we commit to providing our employees with quality and affordable benefits to complement a fulfilling work experience and help balance life experiences and needs. To show our appreciation of your hard work, we offer a competitive and comprehensive total benefits package, including:
- Enjoy a generous amount of Paid Time Off and Sick Leave in your first year with accruals starting on your first day!
- Start saving with Retirement plans available from day one, providing up to 5% employer match after one year of employment.
- Take care of yourself with our free on-site 24-hour employee health center, and discounts to a selection of local fitness/recreational centers.
- Keep learning by utilizing our education program benefits to foster your growth and development.
- Give back to the community with multiple opportunities throughout the year to volunteer with our own non-profit SLV Health Foundation and other SLV- and community-sponsored events.
- Discounts on cell-phone plans, ski/snowboard lift tickets, Dell computers, local pools, Adams State University functions and more!
- Your family is our family so our employees and their family members have access to our employee support services, including up to four free counseling sessions to assist with work/life solutions.
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