Community Hospital·Grand Junction, Colorado
Provide compassionate, evidence-based nursing care to patients in the Emergency Department while collaborating with interdisciplinary teams. Responsibilities include monitoring patient outcomes, participating in quality improvement activities, and utilizing informatics for care coordination.
Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
Delivers patient and family-centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence-based care. Actively anticipates changes in patient outcomes/ unit needs in the provision of care.
Care is informed by the specific professional practice model in place in the unit to which you are hired
Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team. Initiates and anticipates individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach
Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
Applies communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care.
Presents own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions.
Collaborates with team members in shared decision-making.
Supports and upholds the mission, vision, and values of Community Hospital
Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
Identifies key concepts of research and evidence-based practice.
Participates in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
Recognizes and communicates the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies procedures, practice guidelines, and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation.
Recognizes the standard of care provided by the applicable professional organization and /or association
Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems.
Utilizes outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions.
Participates in the quality improvement activities, which may include Root Cause Analyses, Apparent Cause Analyses, Capacity Operation Safety Huddles, Nursing Bed Huddles, & Interdisciplinary Meetings and uses quality measures to understand individual and unit performance.
Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
Utilizes and discusses policy, procedures, and guidelines to support practice.
Communicates observations or concerns related to unsafe situations that pose a risk to patients, families or the health care team.
Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.
Recognizes and applies information and technology of patient and unit outcomes to facilitate communication, clinical decision-making, error prevention, and care coordination.
Navigates and documents in the EMR to support patient care.
$37.00 - $42.55 per hour, depending on education and experience.
Night Shift Differential
Bonus: $30,000 (2 years of nursing experience required for eligibility for bonus)
Discretionary bonuses, relocation expenses, merit increase, market adjustments, recognition bonuses, and other forms of discretionary compensation may be available.
Market context
Colorado nursing roles like this often draw steady demand from home health and hospice settings, where employers look for RNs who can work independently and manage patient care in the field. These positions are competitive because a current Colorado RN license, prior nursing experience, reliable transportation, and familiarity with HCHB can all strengthen an application. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to save time, then confirm your license, driving documents, and home health or hospice experience before applying.
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