RN Emergency Room

Job Summary and Responsibilities

Depending on your location, you may be eligible for up to $8,000 in relocation assistance!

Nurses are at the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success. We offer Certification pay and a Clinical Career Ladder to help you grow and recognize your contributions to clinical excellence! 

Here, you will help advance modern nursing by providing your skills, experience, and commitment to compassionate care. The impact you will make in our faith-based, mission-driven culture will cultivate excellence and achieve professional fulfillment united in humankindness.

As a Registered Nurse (RN) you will assume responsibility and accountability for:

• Facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team, and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
• Promote the optimal health, well-being and safety of the patient through use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act.
• Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.

Job Requirements

In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified nursing candidates will need the following:

Education Requirements

• Associates Degree in Nursing required; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• Bachelors Degree in Nursing preferred
• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required for new graduates, preferred for experienced RNs

Experience Requirements

• One year experience preferred
• Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty

Licenses/Certification Requirements

• RN License required; Current state nursing licenses or valid RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact

Physical Requirements 

• Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly)

Schedule:  PRN (Variable)

Where You’ll Work

For more than 135 years, St. Mary-Corwin has cared for the people of Pueblo and the surrounding southern Colorado communities. Driven by a commitment to Pueblo and our healing ministry, St. Mary- Corwin is focused on its core areas of clinical strength: cancer care and orthopedic services. This concentration enables St. Mary-Corwin to serve the southern Colorado region with high quality, high value care for generations to come. Residents of Pueblo enjoy a moderate cost of living within this modern, mid-sized community while experiencing everything great about life in Colorado, including world- class nearby outdoor recreation, thriving local arts and culture, numerous parks, festivals and much more.

The Emergency Department at St. Mary-Corwin Hospital has 27 ED beds, three behavioral health rooms and five fast-track rooms. The Emergency Department handles acute and subacute issues. We are a Level IV trauma center with rural and critical care access. As part of an active community, St. Mary-Corwin is located near Pueblo’s main tourist area with many outdoor activities. We see everything from major traumas, STEMIs, and strokesto minor cases of viral illness and well-child checks. We are proficient in EMTALA laws with our stabilization and transfer experience of acutely emergent patients.Being a critical access hospital, our case mix is broad. We see patients including neonates and geriatrics and even treat an inmate population. Occasionally we receive overflow, but rarely will we need to board a patient. We have a great team environment. Our culture, teamwork and team dynamics are unlike any other. We foster great relationships with our employees and physicians. Our team is our extended family. Individuals are flexible and team-focused. We look for candidates who are willing to learn, are friendly, flexible and focused on providing a great patient experience.