RN or LPN license Valid license as a Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in the state where work is performed.Valid license as a Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in the state where work is performed.
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Valid license as a Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in the state where work is performed.
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Strong clinical skills and knowledge of nursing principles, procedures, and best practices in long-term care.
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Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with residents, families, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.
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Demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple responsibilities, and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
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Understanding of regulatory requirements governing nursing practices and skilled nursing facilities.
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Ability to build rapport with patients through a compassionate and caring demeanor.
A Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) provides direct care to residents and is a critical part of the healthcare team. Working as part of a team, you will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate resident care plans to promote optimal health, safety, and well-being.
Primary Responsibilities and Duties
Conduct comprehensive assessments of residents’ health status, including vital signs, medical history, and current symptoms.
Collaborate with residents, families, physicians, and other team members to establish goals of care and develop appropriate care strategies.
Regularly reassess resident needs and adjust care plans accordingly, ensuring continuity and responsiveness to changing conditions.
Provide skilled nursing interventions and treatments in accordance with physician orders and established care protocols.
Administer medications, perform wound care, monitor vital signs, and manage medical equipment as needed to support resident health and recovery.
Coordinate with ancillary services, including therapy, dietary, and social services to ensure comprehensive and integrated care delivery.
Educate residents and families on health conditions, treatment options, medication management, and self-care strategies to promote understanding and empowerment.
Provide emotional support, counseling, and advocacy to residents and families facing health challenges, fostering a trust and therapeutic relationship.
Promote preventive health practices and wellness initiatives to optimize resident health and quality of life.
Document nursing assessments, interventions, and outcomes in resident medical records.
Participate in care conferences and team meetings to discuss residents’ progress goals, and any changes in condition or care needs.
Adhere to infection control protocols and maintain a clean, safe, and hygienic environment for residents, staff and visitors.
Collaborate with other healthcare professionals, including registered nurses, physicians, therapists, and social workers, to optimize resident outcomes and promote team work.
Perform all other duties assigned.
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Schedule
PRN, Weekdays, Weekends
12 Hour Shifts
Qualifications
Valid license as a Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in the state where work is performed.
Strong clinical skills and knowledge of nursing principles, procedures, and best practices in long-term care.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with residents, families, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.
Demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple responsibilities, and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Understanding of regulatory requirements governing nursing practices and skilled nursing facilities.
Ability to build rapport with patients through a compassionate and caring demeanor.
Requirements
Work performed in a medical setting due to the need to work directly with residents.
Must be able to sit, stand, bend, reach, talk, hear, stoop, kneel, crouch, stretch, and twist.
Stamina to stand and move about the facility to perform frequent rounds and respond to emergent situations as needed.
Emotional resilience and ability to cope with the physical and emotional demands of working with residents who may have complex healthcare needs.
Capability to lift and transfer residents safely, with proper body mechanics and assistance as needed.
Required vision includes close, vision, distance, peripheral, and the ability to adjust focus.
Maintain regular attendance and timeliness as set forth within the work schedule designated by the department supervisor/manager.
The job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
Call for help the minute your patient looks off to you, not once you are sure. Needing help is not a mark against you. It puts more eyes on the patient, sooner.
“The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.”
— Florence Nightingale
Some shifts end with you crying in your car because it all catches up at once. That is allowed. Just say out loud, to someone you trust, that it was a bad one.
Get certified in whatever you keep gravitating toward. After my wound care certification it was like new glasses: I saw what I had not known to look for.
“Willingly, had they accepted me, I would have worked for the wounded, in return for bread and water.”
— Mary Seacole
When you are unsure and everyone else is slammed, try this: if another nurse walked up and put that exact question to you, what would you tell them to do?
Someone on clinicals may say something that has you wondering if you are cut out for this. Do not take it to heart. A couple of bad days are not the profession.
Three or four years went by before the overwhelmed feeling lifted, and close to six before I felt expert at the bedside. Measure this in years, not months.
Expect the unexpected every shift and at every hour of it. The part you can learn is flexibility: managing a bit of chaos, and finding something in it to enjoy.
“But time has helped to settle the question and a trained nurse’s position now is largely what she herself makes it.”
— Isabel Hampton Robb
Most of what a dying person's family needs is to hear that nothing has gone wrong, that this is what dying looks like, and that they are caring for them well.
There will always be one more patient and one more paper. Your kid is only a toddler once. Do not give the people at home what is left at the end of the week.
“To do what nobody else can do, in a way that nobody else will do, despite all that we go through, that is to be a nurse.”
— Rawsi Williams
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Life in Colorado Springs, CO
Neighborhoods+Young professionals are steered toward Briargate on the north end, East Colorado Springs closer to downtown nightlife, Northeast with Garden of the Gods and UCCS access, Powers for parks plus airport and base access, and lower-cost Southeast near Fort Carson. Facebook locals recommend staying north—Monument (pricey, great views) and Falcon/Peyton (small-town vibes). Reddit points to Downtown, the West Side, Old Colorado City, and Manitou Springs for breweries and weekend entertainment. Western neighborhoods buy mountain proximity and premium views; eastern and northeastern master-planned areas such as Briargate, Pine Creek, Cordera, and Flying Horse are the growth corridor, with most new development north of downtown.
Young professionals are steered toward Briargate on the north end, East Colorado Springs closer to downtown nightlife, Northeast with Garden of the Gods and UCCS access, Powers for parks plus airport and base access, and lower-cost Southeast near Fort Carson. Facebook locals recommend staying north—Monument (pricey, great views) and Falcon/Peyton (small-town vibes).
Reddit points to Downtown, the West Side, Old Colorado City, and Manitou Springs for breweries and weekend entertainment. Western neighborhoods buy mountain proximity and premium views; eastern and northeastern master-planned areas such as Briargate, Pine Creek, Cordera, and Flying Horse are the growth corridor, with most new development north of downtown.
Getting around+Typical commute is about 20.01 minutes in U.S. News figures and 22.9 minutes in Visit COS 2022 data. North-south travel runs on Interstate 25, Academy Boulevard, and Powers Boulevard; east-west connectors include Woodmen Road, Austin Bluffs Parkway, and Platte Avenue. Fort Carson loads southern routes; the Air Force Academy, Peterson Space Force Base, and Schriever Space Force Base each shape different corridors. Locals say traffic is milder than bigger metros but roads are constantly under construction and drivers draw complaints. Sources do not name hospital campuses, transit lines to those campuses, or parking conditions.
Typical commute is about 20.01 minutes in U.S. News figures and 22.9 minutes in Visit COS 2022 data. North-south travel runs on Interstate 25, Academy Boulevard, and Powers Boulevard; east-west connectors include Woodmen Road, Austin Bluffs Parkway, and Platte Avenue.
Fort Carson loads southern routes; the Air Force Academy, Peterson Space Force Base, and Schriever Space Force Base each shape different corridors. Locals say traffic is milder than bigger metros but roads are constantly under construction and drivers draw complaints.
Sources do not name hospital campuses, transit lines to those campuses, or parking conditions.
Outdoors+Garden of the Gods is the signature park—towering red rocks, paved walkways, hiking trails, and viewpoint pull-offs, often cited as TripAdvisor’s #1 park. Pikes Peak (14,115 feet) can be driven, hiked, or biked. Other named staples are Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Cheyenne Mountain State Park, Red Rock Canyon, Helen Hunt Falls, the Manitou Incline, Arkansas River whitewater rafting, and the Royal Gorge zip line and railroad. Visit COS lists more than 55 things to do in the Pikes Peak Region, with parks and trails used as everyday recreation rather than once-a-year tourism.
Garden of the Gods is the signature park—towering red rocks, paved walkways, hiking trails, and viewpoint pull-offs, often cited as TripAdvisor’s #1 park. Pikes Peak (14,115 feet) can be driven, hiked, or biked.
Other named staples are Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Cheyenne Mountain State Park, Red Rock Canyon, Helen Hunt Falls, the Manitou Incline, Arkansas River whitewater rafting, and the Royal Gorge zip line and railroad. Visit COS lists more than 55 things to do in the Pikes Peak Region, with parks and trails used as everyday recreation rather than once-a-year tourism.
Check the commute at your shift’s start and end, upfront housing costs, and whether moving assistance must be repaid if you leave.
Living in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs sits at the eastern base of Pikes Peak as Olympic City USA, with Garden of the Gods, the Manitou Incline, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, and 14,115-foot summit access in the same metro as Fort Carson and the Air Force Academy. For a nurse, the draw is outdoor life on 300-plus sunny, dry days, a roughly 20–23 minute commute on I-25, Academy, and Powers, and neighborhoods that split by budget: Southeast and East Colorado Springs for lower medians, Briargate and the north end (Monument, Falcon/Peyton) for safety and Academy District 20 schools, Downtown/Old Colorado City/Manitou for breweries, Broadmoor and Flying Horse for luxury. Tradeoffs are constant construction, dry air and wind, a restaurant scene locals still call behind bigger cities, tourism and military traffic, and growth pushing El Paso County toward a million people. It rewards people who want mountains more than nightlife density.
