RN Weekend Option

As our RN Weekend Option you will assume responsibility for facilitating communicating and collaborating with the healthcare team and patients/families to identify and meet their physical emotional and spiritual needs during weekend shifts.

Every day you will promote the optimal health well-being and safety of patients through the nursing process adhering to patient care standards guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act all while demonstrating personal accountability for relationship-based care and organizational values.

To be successful in this role you will be a Registered Nurse with strong clinical assessment and communication skills adaptability for weekend duties and a commitment to patient safety and adherence to nursing standards aligned with our organizational mission and core values.

• Assess patients physical psychosocial cultural and spiritual needs through observation interview review of medical records & clinical data. Evaluates patients response and intervenes to ensure optimal patient outcome.
• Develop and implement patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including but not limited to IVs incision/wound care medication administration catheterization and specimen collections.
• Promote advocate and collaborate to protect the health and safety and rights of each patient.
• Provide patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness needs and ability.
• Recognizes the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patients preferences values and needs.

• Associates Degree in Nursing or by endorsement.
• One (1) year experience.
• Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty.
• RN License; Current state nursing licenses or valid RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact.

Preferred

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing

Mercy Hospital is an 82 bed acute care hospital located in the scenic southwestern Colorado town of Durango. It is the only hospital in Colorado to be rated by Medicare with five stars for overall hospital quality. It is recognized for excellence in orthopedic and spine surgery and for outstanding patient experience and patient safety. Mercy has also received ten consecutive A grades for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group. Our providers use state-of-the-art technology in an environment designed to promote wellbeing and healing of body mind and spirit. Among the many specialty services available at Mercy are emergency care (Level III trauma designation) surgical care cardiac care (including interventional) Orthopedic and Spine Centers of Excellence a Family Birthing Center home care hospice care and more. Durango offers an exceptional quality of life with small town charm excellent schools and year-round world-class outdoor recreation opportunities including snow sports river sports hiking biking camping and more.