Registered Nurse Emergency Room

The Emergency Department at St. Anthony Summit Hospital is a Level III trauma center, with specialized orthopedic trauma care. We also provide excellent stroke, STEMI, and sepsis care, consistently exceeding benchmarks. We have a comprehensive in-house forensic nurse examiner program. These specialized nurses work closely with the ED to provide trauma informed care to all patients experiencing intentional trauma. Our patient mix includes ortho trauma, cardiac, stroke, behavioral health, substance abuse, pediatric illness, and trauma.

We do not experience overflow from other nursing departments. Our mission emphasizes collaboration to promote compassionate and excellent care. Individuals would want to join our team because of our solidarity, continuous education, professional growth opportunities, self-scheduling. We are an intimate group who really cares for one another.

That care extends to each patient, reflected in our top patient experience scores. We foster employee engagement, providing ample space for our front line to have a voice. Through our Shared Governance platform, clinical workgroups, and various quality initiatives, our employees have opportunity to participate in shared decision making.  When hiring, we look for those who are professional and respectful, committed to the pursuit of excellence, adaptable, and willing to work in a limited resource environment, always prioritizing patient safety and quality.

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.

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 recent RN Emergency Room experience required
• 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
• BLS through AHA required
• ACLS through AHA required
• ENPC or PALS required
• TNCC required
• NIHSS required

Physical Requirements 

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

PRN is 5 shifts in 6 weeks. PRN differential is 20% of base pay rate. 

St. Anthony Summit Hospital is a Level III trauma center serviced by Flight For Life Colorado. We are nationally recognized as a multiple-time recipient of the Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence Award for Patient Experience, and we were named a Top 100 Hospital in the U.S. by IBM Watson Health in 2018. We also are a Pathway to Excellence-designated hospital, recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as being one of the best hospitals for nurses to work. We provide a full range of medical specialties and health care services to Summit County and the surrounding region, including surgical, emergency/trauma, critical care, birth center, orthopedics, breast care, digital mammography, breast MRI, radiology and imaging, infusion therapy, nuclear medicine, cardiology, oncology, Summit Sleep Disorders Center, Ear Nose and Throat (ENT), gastroenterology and Total Joint Replacement. We proudly provide convenient care where you live, work and play - that's why visitors and residents alike can count on us for emergent and urgent medical services. In addition to 24/7, Level III emergency care at St. Anthony-Summit Hospital in Frisco, we have three emergency mountain clinics at the base of the Breckenridge, Copper Mountain and Keystone resorts, as well as urgent care and primary care available from CMG High Country Healthcare clinics in Frisco, Breckenridge and Silverthorne.

Salary : $35 - $63