Travel RN - Med/Surg - Colorado Springs, CO - $2,075 per week - 01/07/25

Job Posted 1/7/2025

TravelNurseSource

Colorado Springs, CO

United States

Category Healthcare & Nursing Jobs

Job Description

TravelNurseSource is working with Cynet Health to find a qualified Med/Surg RN in Colorado Springs, Colorado, 80907!

Pay Information
$2,075 per week

About The Position
Job Title: RN Float Pool

Job Specialty: Progressive Intermediate Step Down

Job Duration: 13 weeks

Shift: 12-hour night shifts

Guaranteed Hours: 36 hours per week

Experience: One year experience preferred; nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty

License: State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC)

Certifications: American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) required; National Nursing Certification from an ANCC-approved organization is strongly preferred.

Must-Have: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Patient Care, EPIC experience

Job Description:

- Assume responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team and the patient/family to meet the patient's physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Promote optimal health, well-being, and safety of the patient using the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act.
- Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.
- Assess patient's physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and 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 collaboration with the interdisciplinary team and according to nursing standards.
- Demonstrate competency in various therapeutic/diagnostic interventions, including IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
- Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient.
- Provide patient/family education by assessing patient/family learning readiness, needs, and ability and evaluating the effectiveness of teaching.
- Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
- Deliver care with respect for cultural differences and human experience diversity.
- Delegate to non-RN personnel per State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
- Effectively use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
- Serve as a professional role model demonstrating ethical/legal/professional nursing processes.
- Manage resources and patient flow by matching nursing competencies with individualized patient and unit needs.
- Use standards of care, hospital policies/procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
- Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
- Precept/mentor new staff or nursing students as needed and seek learning opportunities and continuing education.
- Seek experiences reflecting current practice to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
- Maintain professional records that demonstrate competency and lifelong learning.
- Evaluate personal integrity and nursing practice concerning professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Take action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.
- Demonstrate a commitment to the organization through ongoing participation in hospital and unit-based meetings.
- Verbalize an understanding of the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data.
- Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, patient experiences, and safe care delivery.
- Participate in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities.
- Use current healthcare research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase professional issue knowledge.

Note: Floating may be required to any location within sixty miles of the original assignment location or identified float zone. Assignments may include duties outside the original assignment requirements in accordance with organizational policy.

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Job Requirements
Required for Onboarding

BLS
Pharmacology
Skills Checklist
Specialty Exam

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