RN license Active registered nurse (RN) license and required credentials for the assignment; basic life support (BLS) certification where required.
Term
Travel
Do you qualify?
License
Active registered nurse (RN) license and required credentials for the assignment; basic life support (BLS) certification where required.
Experience
Patient-care experience relevant to the placement. Depending on the setting, useful experience may include hospital, acute or critical care, emergency medicine, pediatrics, geriatrics, long-term care, assisted living, hospice, home care, or travel nursing.
Experience
Additional setting-specific experience—such as dialysis, labor and delivery, intensive care, trauma, behavioral health, memory care, or developmental-disability support—is valued when applicable.
Also asks
Familiarity with applicable systems and workflows, such as Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth, or eClinicalWorks; medical terminology, ICD coding, and accurate documentation.
Also asks
Relevant clinical skills may include IV insertion, phlebotomy, venipuncture, catheterization, airway management, telemetry, and medication administration.
Pays above most Colorado travel rolesColorado travel postings that state pay run $44/hr to $65/hr, the middle half $50/hr to $58/hr, across 203 postings.
Join our team as an RN PRN/Contract nurse and bring adaptable, attentive care to patients across clinical settings. You’ll assess patient needs, deliver nursing care, document accurately, and coordinate with the care team. Assignments may involve acute, outpatient, long-term, home, or community care, depending on the setting and your qualifications.
Your impact: Timely assessment and coordinated care help patients and families make informed decisions and support safer transitions between care settings.
Responsibilities
Perform patient assessments, monitor vital signs, recognize changes in condition, and escalate concerns.
Administer medications, injections, and IV infusions; provide catheter, tube-feeding, ostomy, wound, and pain-management care as assigned.
Support triage, diagnostic evaluation, intake, discharge planning, and patient education.
Maintain clear medical documentation and records in electronic health record (EHR) or electronic medical record (EMR) systems while protecting patient privacy under HIPAA.
Follow infection-control and aseptic-technique practices; collaborate with clinicians, patients, and families.
Requirements
Active registered nurse (RN) license and required credentials for the assignment; basic life support (BLS) certification where required.
Patient-care experience relevant to the placement. Depending on the setting, useful experience may include hospital, acute or critical care, emergency medicine, pediatrics, geriatrics, long-term care, assisted living, hospice, home care, or travel nursing.
Familiarity with applicable systems and workflows, such as Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth, or eClinicalWorks; medical terminology, ICD coding, and accurate documentation.
Relevant clinical skills may include IV insertion, phlebotomy, venipuncture, catheterization, airway management, telemetry, and medication administration.
Additional setting-specific experience—such as dialysis, labor and delivery, intensive care, trauma, behavioral health, memory care, or developmental-disability support—is valued when applicable.
Neighborhoods+Nurses and young professionals who post in r/AuroraCO cluster in the southeast—south of E Quincy Ave, south of Iliff, and generally south of Mississippi—where a roughly 20-minute in-city commute is treated as worth the quieter streets. Named safer, higher-income pockets include Aurora Highlands (small-town feel, good schools, its own search demand), Saddle Rock, Saddle Rock Ridge, Saddle Rock Highlands, Piney Creek, Tallyn’s Reach, Seven Hills, Conservatory, and Sterling Hills; Facebook also flags the NW quad of Bayview Wellington. North Aurora is the area locals tell movers to skip. The city mixes master-planned new builds, older stock, and 55+ communities across a ~165-square-mile footprint of nearly 400,000 people.
Nurses and young professionals who post in r/AuroraCO cluster in the southeast—south of E Quincy Ave, south of Iliff, and generally south of Mississippi—where a roughly 20-minute in-city commute is treated as worth the quieter streets. Named safer, higher-income pockets include Aurora Highlands (small-town feel, good schools, its own search demand), Saddle Rock, Saddle Rock Ridge, Saddle Rock Highlands, Piney Creek, Tallyn’s Reach, Seven Hills, Conservatory, and Sterling Hills; Facebook also flags the NW quad of Bayview Wellington.
North Aurora is the area locals tell movers to skip. The city mixes master-planned new builds, older stock, and 55+ communities across a ~165-square-mile footprint of nearly 400,000 people.
Getting around+Anschutz Medical Campus and Children’s Hospital Colorado are in Aurora, so many nursing shifts are a local drive rather than a Denver commute. Northern Aurora is about 25 minutes to downtown Denver; the southeastern side runs 35–45 minutes, and Reddit locals treat a 20-minute in-city hop as a win. Peak delays hit I-225 and E-470; RTD light rail exists but coverage is thin (Transit Score 35, Walk Score 43, Bike Score 53), so most people drive. Centennial is about 15 minutes into Aurora; Littleton about 25.
Anschutz Medical Campus and Children’s Hospital Colorado are in Aurora, so many nursing shifts are a local drive rather than a Denver commute. Northern Aurora is about 25 minutes to downtown Denver; the southeastern side runs 35–45 minutes, and Reddit locals treat a 20-minute in-city hop as a win.
Peak delays hit I-225 and E-470; RTD light rail exists but coverage is thin (Transit Score 35, Walk Score 43, Bike Score 53), so most people drive. Centennial is about 15 minutes into Aurora; Littleton about 25.
Outdoors+Cherry Creek State Park and Aurora Reservoir are the in-city backyard: miles of trails, picnic areas, boating, and stand-up paddleboarding with Front Range views. Hogan Park holds the large "Umi" sculpture; 12 Mile Stables offers guided horseback rides. Weekend trips from r/AuroraCO point to Evergreen Lake, Mount Falcon, Lookout Mountain, and Red Rocks—because Aurora itself is flatter and farther from the mountains than west-metro suburbs. Visitor guides also flag family pools and lazy-river resorts.
Cherry Creek State Park and Aurora Reservoir are the in-city backyard: miles of trails, picnic areas, boating, and stand-up paddleboarding with Front Range views. Hogan Park holds the large "Umi" sculpture; 12 Mile Stables offers guided horseback rides.
Weekend trips from r/AuroraCO point to Evergreen Lake, Mount Falcon, Lookout Mountain, and Red Rocks—because Aurora itself is flatter and farther from the mountains than west-metro suburbs. Visitor guides also flag family pools and lazy-river resorts.
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 Aurora
Aurora is Colorado’s third-largest city—nearly 400,000 people across 165 square miles of eastern Denver metro prairie, not a mountain town and not a downtown. For a nurse the draw is Anschutz Medical Campus and Children’s Hospital Colorado inside city limits. Live southeast: Aurora Highlands, Saddle Rock, Piney Creek, Tallyn’s Reach, or south of E Quincy Ave; skip North Aurora. You will drive (Transit Score 35) with rush-hour backups on I-225 and E-470; northern Aurora is about 25 minutes to downtown Denver, the far southeast 35–45. Housing undercuts central Denver—median homes around $409,700–$470,000, rents roughly $1,600–$1,760—but still runs about 25% above the national average. Crime is falling yet neighborhood-dependent. Stanley Marketplace, Annette, Helga’s, Bent Barley, and 400+ ethnic restaurants are the hangouts; Cherry Creek State Park and Aurora Reservoir are the backyard. Tradeoffs locals own: sprawl, no downtown, little walkability, and a longer haul to the mountains than west-metro suburbs.
