Registered Nurse Float Team

Job Overview

As part of the Clinical Resource (CR) Team, the Clinical Nurse serves as a system-wide resource, providing patient care within defined cohort areas: Acute Care, Critical Care, Emergency/Network of Care, and/or Ambulatory clinical areas. The Clinical Nurse has the clinical knowledge, skills, and competencies to provide nursing care commensurate with the unit, department, and division expectation. The Clinical Nurse may begin their shift in one unit and based on a change in census and acuity be reallocated to a different unit to meet operational needs. However, it is also possible for the Clinical Nurse to experience extended periods of time in one department to offset long-term absences through the Months Program.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Delivers patient and family centered nursing care in one or more clinical areas while incorporating developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence-based care practices and methodologies. Anticipates and responds to changes in patient outcomes in the provision of care.
• Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team. Initiates and anticipates individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach. Communicates unit/department specific information to appropriate stakeholders to support patient care and overall operations.
• Build and maintains strong working relationships with multidisciplinary healthcare providers to provide individualized patient/family care and education while minimizing risks to the patient during transitions of care.
• Researches, compiles, and analyzes data and prepares case records, reports, and correspondence to facilitate communication, clinical decision making, error prevention, and care coordination.
• Collects, monitors, and reports on quality of care outcomes and measures; provides input into the continuous evaluation and improvement of internal quality and safety processes, procedures, and performance measures.
• Ensures compliance with clinical policies, procedures, and best practices to minimize the risk of harm to patients and providers.
• Researches, identifies, and implements evidence-based practice to improve the quality of care provided to patients/families.
• Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Agents of change within the organization, professional development and supports organizational goals.
• Fosters the sharing of best practices and advances in clinical care between clinical areas of practice.
• Builds and fosters collaborative relationships between areas of clinical practice.
• Serves as an ambassador for the Staffing Resource Team by seeking feedback and recommendations on how the team can support units/departments in achieving the goals/objectives for that area.
• Communicates areas of opportunities to improve professional practice to key stakeholder groups with the goal of advancing healthcare outcomes.
• Complies with and abides by the unit/department specific policies, practices, and procedures.
• Actively engages in unit/department activities while providing services in that area.
• Continuously seeks opportunities to advance knowledge and skills to be able to provide the timely, efficient, effective, safe, and person-centered care in areas where she/he is assigned to provide care.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  • Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN)
• Experience
  • Two years of pediatric nursing experience aligned to cohort.
  • Pediatric Critical Care experience preferred
• Licenses & Certifications
  • Current Colorado Registered Nurse (RN) license.
  • BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association with at least 6 months left before expiration is required upon hire
  • ACLS and PALS required within six months of hire.

Benefits Information

As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid sick leave and a robust wellness program. As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April. Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained. Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.