RN - Inpatient
Socorro, New Mexico
Home Health · Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Posted Jul 13
- Unit
- Inpatient
What the listing says
Role
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- $6/hr above the median
The median for Home Health in New Mexico is $45/hr, across 13 postings.
About this role
Utilizes the nursing process to provide direct patient care to an assigned group of patients during a shift. Ensures safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care of patients. Acts as clinical resource by overseeing the delivery of patient care, directs and delegates patient care assignments to home health aides and nursing staff based on acuteness of patient care needs and staff capability and anticipates future needs.
Maintains clinically competent in providing direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other specialists as required and adjusts nursing care processes as indicated to ensure optimal patient care. Coordinates patient care through collaboration with the patient, family, all other disciplines, primary and secondary physicians, and community resources/programs.
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Requirements
- State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License or Graduate Nurse Permit required
- Degree from accredited academic nursing program
- Inpatient experience
- RN License
- Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)
- Patient charting
- Epic
- Medicare regulations
Benefits
- Educational and career development options including tuition and certification reimbursement
- Scholarship opportunities
- Staff Safety wearable badge
- Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles
- Malpractice liability insurance
- Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
- EPIC electronic charting system
- Wellness program including free on-site and community-based gyms
Place
- City
- Socorro, New Mexico
- Median rent
- $711/mo
- Local household income
- $39,375/yr
- State price level
- 8% below the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities
all local households, not nurse pay
New Mexico index 92.2, where 100 is the national average.
Socorro sits in central New Mexico's high desert along the Rio Grande, home to New Mexico Tech and a tight-knit community of roughly 8,000 residents. The nearby Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge draws birdwatchers each winter, while surrounding mountain ranges offer hiking and outdoor recreation for nurses seeking a quiet, research-town pace of life.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Presbyterian System Services operates in Ruidoso, New Mexico (88345), providing healthcare services across multiple care settings including acute hospital care, ambulatory/outpatient services, and pediatric nursing. The system appears to offer nursing roles across the care continuum. Nursing roles at Presbyterian…
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- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
