Registered Nurse Critical Care Training Program in Lafayette, Colorado, United States at Intermountain Front Range Inc (2024)

Job Description:

The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of patients. The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice and coordination of care with other health team members.

Train for the RN Career of Your Dreams!

Are you a Registered Nurse who is interested in advancing your career into a specialty of Critical Care nursing or a new grad that did rotations in or a preceptorship in the Critical Care unit and thought, “Yes, please!”, this program is for you.

Program Start – November 11, 2024

Here's How the Process Works

This is a full-time, 12-week training program offering a mix of didactic learning and clinical preceptorship.
You will be compensated for training hours and will be benefit-eligible.
The training program comes with a two-year commitment to Intermountain Health or financial payback.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind, and social well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

Your experience.

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

ASN / ADN from an accredited program with the ability to obtain your BSN from an accredited program within four (4) years of hire unless you possess a minimum of fifteen (15) years of proven continuous Registered Nurse experience in an acute care setting
Current Colorado RN license or compact license with the ability to obtain a Colorado RN license
Current BLS certification endorsed by the American Heart Association
Ability and willingness to work all shifts – days, mids, and/or nights – dependent on departmental need
Ability and willingness to work under stressful conditions with a high volume of patients
Ability and willingness to learn in classroom and online settings as well as at the bedside in the clinical setting
Ability and willingness to commit to the 12-week training period uninterrupted
Ability and willingness to sign a commitment to two (2) years of full-time work in the department hired

Highly Preferred:

At least one (1) year of RN experience, preferably in an acute care environment

Your next move.

Now that you know more about being an RN on our team we hope you’ll join us. At Intermountain Health you’ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.

Physical Requirements:

Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.- and -Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.- and -Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.- and -Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.- and -Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc).- and -May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.

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