Emergency Department (ED) Registered Nurse (RN), Nights, Full Time

Position Highlights:

• Position: Emergency Nurse
• Location: Emergency Department
• Schedule: Night Shift - Full-Time
• Application Deadline: August 17, 2026
• Bonus: $30,000 (2 years of nursing experience required for eligibility for bonus)

Responsibilities:

Family-Centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs.

• Delivers patient and family-centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence-based care. Actively anticipates changes in patient outcomes/ unit needs in the provision of care.
• Care is informed by the specific professional practice model in place in the unit to which you are hired
• 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

Teamwork & Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.

• Applies communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care.
• Presents own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions.
• Collaborates with team members in shared decision-making.
• Supports and upholds the mission, vision, and values of Community Hospital

Evidence-Based Practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.

• Identifies key concepts of research and evidence-based practice.
• Participates in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
• Recognizes and communicates the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies procedures, practice guidelines, and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation.
• Recognizes the standard of care provided by the applicable professional organization and /or association

Quality Improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems.

• Utilizes outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions.
• Participates in the quality improvement activities, which may include Root Cause Analyses, Apparent Cause Analyses, Capacity Operation Safety Huddles, Nursing Bed Huddles, & Interdisciplinary Meetings and uses quality measures to understand individual and unit performance.

Safety: Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

• Utilizes and discusses policy, procedures, and guidelines to support practice.
• Communicates observations or concerns related to unsafe situations that pose a risk to patients, families or the health care team.

Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

• Recognizes and applies information and technology of patient and unit outcomes to facilitate communication, clinical decision-making, error prevention, and care coordination.
• Navigates and documents in the EMR to support patient care.

Leadership: Agents of change within the organization, involved in committees, professional development, and support organizational goals, as well as, active participants in the community. Nurses support organizational goals, advance the nursing profession, and enhance professional development by extending their influence to professional and community groups.

• Works within scope of practice and delegates according to Nurse Practice Act.
• Participates in shared governance activities.
• Seeks opportunities to participate in professional development activities such as:
  • continuing education activities,
  • a nursing or professional health organization
  • certification in clinical specialty
  • community service and/or grassroots advocacy and/or
  • Participates in education by precepting and the education of orientees, peers, and students and acting as a clinical resource.

Requirements:

• RN License
• Bachelor's Degree required or equivalent combination of education and experience
• BLS from American Red Cross or American Heart Association with at least 3 months left before expiration is required upon hire

Compensation:

• $37.00 - $42.55 per hour, depending on education and experience.
• Night Shift Differential
• Bonus: $30,000 (2 years of nursing experience required for eligibility for bonus)
• Discretionary bonuses, relocation expenses, merit increase, market adjustments, recognition bonuses, and other forms of discretionary compensation may be available.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• Life Insurance
• Free Parking
• Paid time off
• Education assistance
• 403(b) with employer matching
• Wellness Program
• Additional benefits based on employment status

Additional Information:

• Relocation: Must relocate to Grand Junction, CO 81505 before starting work.
• Work Location: In-person/onsite

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