RN/LVN Travel Nursing
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Aztec Healthcare is long-term care.
- Shift and hours
- 12-hour
- Unit and setting
- Long Term Care
- License
- RN or LVN license
- Term
- 13 weeks · Travel
Do you qualify?
- New grads
- Welcomed
- License
- RN or LVN license
Your six-month RN application plan
Start about six months before graduation. Some programs open earlier; use each employer’s application dates.
6 months before
Shortlist units
Check application windows. Gather clinical experience, references and your expected graduation date.
Find residencies4–6 months before
Apply as windows open
Apply before graduation when the program allows it. Keep the cohort date and license deadline with each application.
Explore new grad jobs2–3 months before
Meet the unit manager
Ask about overtime, a shadow shift, preceptor continuity and the schedule after orientation.
Prepare your questionsAround graduation
Confirm your start
Coordinate NCLEX, the required license and your start date. Get relocation and repayment terms in writing.
Plan your license
Why start this early?
Advocate describes a 6–9 month application runway for several regional RN programs. These milestones are a planning guide, not deadlines for every employer. See program calendars.
What it pays
- Against similar roles
- Below most Colorado travel postingsColorado travel postings that state pay run $44/hr to $65/hr, the middle half $50/hr to $58/hr, across 203 postings.
The role and schedule
- Charge
- Charge shifts are part of the role
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
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Your fit
On your path
Travel Nursing depends on where your license works. Staff experience first; a compact license opens more states.
Original listing
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We're offering excellent compensation for qualified nurses to work either temporarily or long-term for our skilled nursing home in Aztec, New Mexico!
Location: Aztec
Start Date: ASAP Duration: 13 weeks (possible renewal) Shift: 12 hours.
Payrate
- $45.00 / HR LVN
- $50.00 / HR RN
Job Type: Travel (Full-time) Location: Aztec, New Mexico
Aztec Healthcare is a FANTASTIC Long-Term Care Facility.
We are looking for FANTASTIC people like YOU to join our TEAM!
What does success in Long-Term Care look like? YOU!
Come Join our Team of Successful Caregivers!
If you have what it takes to care for our individuals.
Join our Aztec Healthcare Team! We are like a family and our employees have been here for ages!
We serve our Residents daily with a Spirit of Excellence!
Don't be a stranger and come apply today!
Benefits
(Contract Employees are exempt).
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
If you are compassionate and love to take care of people, then we invite you to consider us as your new employer. We are needing Charge Nurses for
- 12 hour shifts! We are offering competitive wages and we welcome multi state licensees! New graduates are welcome and will be trained!
Your Responsibilities
- Ensures delivery of high-quality, positive clinical outcomes, and resident/family satisfaction during supervisory shift.
- Serves as a resource to all staff within the facility regarding the quality of services provided.
- Provide direct resident care when required; Demonstrates the ability to administer medications and treatment timely and according to facility policy; Demonstrates ability to receive, transcribe, and carry out physician orders, if allowed by Nurse Practice Act.
- Effectively manages nursing personnel on shift to limit use of overtime and agency personnel.
- Assesses the work performance of nursing staff as it relates to unit standards of care and goals.
- Conducts regular staff meetings on each shift and provides updates to DON.
Your Qualifications
- Graduate of an approved Licensed Vocational program and licensed in the state of practice, required.
- Minimum of 2 years of nursing experience in a Skilled Nursing Facility preferred.
- Current BLS/CPR certification (All SNFs; ALFs as required by state).
Aztec Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
What's around it?
COLORADO SPRINGS, COFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about the same as the US average
- Median rent
- $1,648/mo
- Household income
- $84,818/yr, all local households, not nurse pay