Clinical Resource Nurse RN High Risk OB L&D

Company: UCHealth
Location: Colorado Springs
Posted on: November 20, 2020

Job Description:

Job DescriptionCome work with our women's team as a Clinical Resource Nurse at Memorial Hospital! This position rounds on all of our women and infant's units including Labor Suites, Obstetrical Emergency Department, Obstetrical ORs, High Risk Ante-partum, and Post-Partum Couplet Suites and a clinical expert helping with emergencies and quality initiatives. We are offering up to a $10K sign on bonus (or relocation allowance) and an incredible benefits package including a pension. Apply today and start your incredible UCHealth career! Summary: Serves as critical care liaison and clinical resource. Conducts interventions focused on care coordination and utilization. Work Schedule: Full Time Nights Responsibilities: Makes frequent rounds to nursing units and ancillary hospital units. Acts as a clinical resource while providing clinical consultation and ensuring care coordination. Works to optimize health care team interventions by providing advanced, anticipatory care interventions to achieve safe, optimal health outcomes for the patient and family. Coordinates care across departments to meet outcomes management and system improvement goals. Educates staff by reinforcing appropriate methods of effective and safe patient care. Collaborates with staff in identification of outcome indicators, data analysis and system improvement. Identifies opportunities and solutions for service and safety improvements. Attends Medical Emergency Response (MET) calls, providing clinical consultation and coordination of care. Provides direct patient care as needed. Independently administers medications per licensure authority, assesses effects of medications, and documents administration per policies and regulatory requirements. Within scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and take appropriate action. Requirements: * Credentials: Essential: * Registered Nurse * Basic Life Support * Advanced Cardiac Life Support * Neonatal Resuscitation Program * STABLE * Trauma Nurse Core Course * Other information: Minimum Required Education: Bachelor's degree in Nursing from an accredited nursing program. Preferred: MSN, Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) certification. Required Licensure/Certification: State licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN). Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS). Relevant certification as determined at position level. Minimum Experience: 2 years of critical care/high risk experience. ADDITIONAL POSITION LEVEL CREDENTIAL INFORMATION: NRP within 3 months of hire. STABLE, TNCC within 6 months of hire. * BLS through the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross CPR for the Professional Rescuer with card in-hand before start date. BLS or CPR card must be good through sixty days of hire. All life support certification cards must be issued by either the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross CPR for the Professional Rescuer. (American Red Cross for the Professional Rescuer is only good upon hire and all renewals will need to be through an American Heart Association sanctioned course.) Are you a RN New Grad? Visit to find out about our exciting New Grad opportunities! At UCHealth, we do things differently We believe in something different: a focus on the individuality of every person. In big ways and small, we exist to improve the extraordinary lives of all those we serve. As Colorado's largest and most innovative health care system, we as a team deliver on the commitment to provide the best possible experience for our patients and their families. We foster a true human connection and give people the freedom to live extraordinary lives. A career at UCHealth is more than a job, it's a passion. Going beyond quality requires the perfect balance of talent, integrity, drive and intellectual curiosity. We are looking for individuals who recognize, like us, that the world of medicine is ever-changing and are motivated to do what is right, not what is easy. We support creativity and curiosity so that each of us can find the extraordinary qualities within ourselves. At UCHealth, we'll do everything in our power to make sure you grow and have a meaningful career. There's no limits to your potential here. Be Extraordinary. Join Us Today! UCHealth recognizes and appreciates the rich array of talents and perspectives that equal employment and diversity can offer our institution. As an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, UCHealth is committed to making all employment decisions based on valid requirements. No applicant shall be discriminated against in any terms, conditions or privileges of employment or otherwise be discriminated against because of the individual's race, creed, color, religion, gender, national origin or ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, genetic information or vete

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