New Graduate Nurse Residency Program Spring Cohort
Intermountain Health
**Job Description:**
The Nursing Graduate works under direct line-of-sight supervision of the Registered Nurse in the clinical setting and participates appropriately in the patient care delivery process. The incumbent also orients to the RN assignment, excluding independent nursing care. This position may participate in medication administration under the direction and supervision of the licensed RN.
**You**
You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a New Graduate Registered Nurse.
Your compassion is tangible: patients feel it in the hand they hold. Families feel it in your prayers. Colleagues feel it in your support. You know when to move quickly. When to sit quietly. When to laugh loudly. You’re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.
**Us**
We believe in you and in fostering your nursing career by providing personalized training and development and offering innovative technologies. This 12-month residency program, starting, **February 24, 2025** , will include a combination of unit-based learning with a preceptor and classroom-based training and will help provide you with additional support as you begin your nursing career with us.
Please apply to be considered for the New Graduate Nurse Residency program. You must have an active RN license prior to the start of the program but are welcomed to apply prior to obtaining your RN license.
**Once you apply a list of open units will be emailed to you with the opportunity to choose 3 units at any of our 4 locations for interviewing.**
Saint Joseph Hospital (http://www.saintjosephdenver.org/) is part of Intermountain Health, a nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on helping people live their healthiest lives. Our 365-bed facility is one of the top-ranked hospitals in Denver, and has been awarded the highest national recognition possible for nursing excellence – Magnet
designation – by the ANCC. We are proud to extend the mission of Intermountain Health by providing care for the poor, the vulnerable, our
communities and each other. Our deep community roots date back to 1873, making us one of the oldest hospitals in Colorado.
Lutheran Hospital (http://www.lutheranmedicalcenter.org/) is part of Intermountain Health, a nonprofit healthcare
organization that focuses on helping people live their healthiest lives. Our 249 bed community-based hospital has been awarded the highest national
recognition possible for nursing excellence - Magnet designation by the ANCC. We are proud to extend the mission of Intermountain Health by providing
comprehensive, specialty care to the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other. Dating back to 1905, we are proud of the rich history and inspiring mission our hospital has embodied for over 110 years.
Good Samaritan Hospital (http://www.goodsamaritancolorado.org/) is part of Intermountain Health, a nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on helping people live their healthiest lives. At our 234-bed Level II Trauma Center, our mission is to bring health and hope to the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other. We’re especially proud of our people, who helped make us one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals according to Health grades.
Platte Valley Hospital (http://www.goodsamaritancolorado.org/) is part of Intermountain Health, a nonprofit healthcare
organization that focuses on helping people live their healthiest lives. At our 98 bed, Level IIl Trauma Center, our mission is to bring healthcare to our
community. They formed auxiliary teams, rallied troops, and went door to door until they raised $500,000 to open Brighton Community Hospital (BCH) in 1960. BCH became the first private general medical-surgical hospital in Adams and Southern Weld Counties and Colorado’s first two-stage hospital-nursing home medical unit licensed under one roof. In 1980, BCH became Platte Valley Hospital.
Benefits (http://www.sclhealthsystem.org/careers/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.
**We**
Together we’ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. We’ll honor each other’s dignity and surpass the standards we set. We’ll encourage joy, demand safety and take pride in our integrity. We’ll laugh at each other’s jokes (even the bad ones). We’ll hello and high five. We’ll celebrate milestones and
acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing. We’re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.
**Your day**
As a New Graduate RN, you need to know how to:
+ Recognize and address patients’ psychological and physical needs
+ Foster continuity and quality of care with the best interest and well-being of patients and their families in mind
+ Assess a patients’ medical status upon admission
+ Assist in developing individualized treatment plans
+ Comply with evaluation, treatment and documentation guidelines
+ Oversee care delivered by LPNs and/or CNAs
**Your experience**
We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:
+ ASN / ADN or BSN from an accredited program, required (if ASN / ADN, a BSN is required within four (4) years of your hire)
+ Current Colorado RN license, required (upon start of the program)
+ Current BLS certification endorsed by the American Heart Association, required
**Preferred** **Qualifications**
+ To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements list must be representative of the knowledge, skills, minimum education, training, licensure, experience, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
+ Apply technical skills and experience gathering patient data and performing patient care tasks such as weight, height, vitals, intake/output measures and specimen collection.
+ Be willing to provide personal hygiene, dressing, nutrition, activity, elimination and other treatments.
+ Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.
+ Strong oral and written communication skills.
+ Regular attendance to perform work on site during regularly scheduled business hours or scheduled shifts is required.
+ Ability to work nights and/or weekends is required for identified positions.
**Your next move**
Now that you know more about being a New Graduate 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.
+ **Additional Job Description** 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 verballycommunicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularlyduring emergency situations.- and -Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment withprecision 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 toretrieve, 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.
**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.
**Location:**
Good Samaritan Hospital, Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital, Platte Valley Hospital, Saint Joseph Hospital
**Work City:**
Denver
**Work State:**
Colorado
**Scheduled Weekly Hours:**
40
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$37.17 - $54.53
We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho, Nevada, and Utah based caregivers (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/employee-benefits/) , and for our Colorado, Montana, and Kansas based caregivers (http://www.sclhealthbenefits.org) ; and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/diversity/) .
Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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