Registered Nurse PACU
Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Eligibility
- RN
- Unit
- PACU
Posted Sep 11
What the listing says
Role
- Accepts
- RN
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Pay
- Similar roles post
- Similar CO staff roles post $39/hr to $48/hr
CO staff postings that state pay run $34/hr to $54/hr, the middle half $39/hr to $48/hr, across 535 postings.
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About this role
As our RN, you will assume responsibility for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and patient/family to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient, advancing modern nursing through compassionate care. Every day you will promote optimal patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, adhering to patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act, and demonstrating personal accountability for relationship-based care and our organizational mission. Assess patient’s needs through observation, interview, review of medical records & clinical data.
Develop and implement patient plan of care. Demonstrate competency in various therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including IV’s, incision/wound care, medication administration, etc. Promote health and safety of patients. Provide patient/family education.
Schedule requires a minimum availability for 5 shifts in a 6-week block and 2 holidays per year. Call required for weeknights/weekends and holidays.
Sourced from CommonSpirit Health’s careers page.
Requirements
- RN License
- ACLS (within six months of hire)
- PALS (within six months of hire)
Benefits
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans
- Life insurance
- Paid time off (minimum of 14 days annually)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Retirement plans including 401(k), 403(b)
- Dependent Care
Place
- City
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Median rent
- $1,648/mo
- Local household income
- $84,818/yr
- Metro price level
- 1% above the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Colorado Springs area index 100.7, where 100 is the national average.
Pikes Peak crowns the skyline west of downtown, and Garden of the Gods' tilted red-sandstone spires sit free and minutes from major hospital campuses. With cost of living about 0.7% above the national average (index 100.7), your RN salary stretches from Old Colorado City craftsman bungalows to Broadmoor-area trailheads.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
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