Registered Nurse (RN) - Adult Pulmonary Clinic

National Jewish Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to join the Highlands Ranch Clinic team. This role provides professional nursing care in a specialty ambulatory care setting, coordinating patient care across the healthcare continuum while delivering safe, personalized, and evidence-based care. The RN works collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams to support positive patient outcomes and an exceptional patient experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage patient care using the nursing process, including assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of individualized care plans.
• Facilitate care coordination and transitions across outpatient and healthcare settings to ensure continuity of care.
• Educate patients and families on health promotion, disease management, and treatment plans to support optimal health outcomes.
• Collaborate with physicians and multidisciplinary teams while contributing to quality improvement and evidence-based practice initiatives.

As the nation's leading respiratory hospital, National Jewish Health is committed to transforming lives through excellence in patient care, research, and education. This is an excellent opportunity for a compassionate, patient-centered RN to build meaningful relationships with patients while advancing their nursing career in a collaborative ambulatory care environment.

Position Summary: Accurately plans and provides professional nursing care for patients, groups, or populations a systematic approach incorporating assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of plan of care using a variety of formats, tools, and technologies. The Ambulatory Clinic Registered Nurse works in a specialty care clinic and is responsible and accountable for facilitation and management of care coordination across the healthcare continuum. Utilizes the nursing process to work with interdisciplinary teams to provide safe and personalized care. Demonstrates core competencies in the area of practice.

Essential Duties

• Systematically collects or supervises the collection of focused data relating to health needs and concerns of a patient, group, or population in the ambulatory clinic setting.
• Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnostic statements for health promotion, health maintenance, or health-related problems or issues.
• Identifies expected and/or desired outcomes in a plan of care individualized for a specific patient, group, or population.
• Develops a plan that identifies strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes in individuals and/or populations and acts on plan of care.
• Ensures the plan of care reflects the cultural, spiritual, intellectual, age, educational, and psychosocial differences of individual patients, groups, or populations.
• Practices care coordination and transition management (CCTM) coordinating the delivery of care in the ambulatory clinic setting and across health care settings.
• Employs educational strategies that promote individual, community, and population health and safety.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of stated outcomes in plan of care.
• Participates in projects, activities, committees, related to nursing and health care in clinical and organizational settings.
• Participates in evidenced-based practice and research strategies to advance ambulatory care nursing and improve patient outcomes.

Other Duties

• Performs other job-related duties as assigned. Functions as a preceptor as assigned.

Competencies

• Accountability: Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health.
• Ethics: Practices ethically; Integrates the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements to guide practice; demonstrates compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth and unique attributes of all people; advocates for healthcare consumer’s rights to informed decision-making and self-determination; maintains therapeutic relationships and professional boundaries; safeguards privacy and confidentiality of healthcare consumers, and their data and information [Standard of Professional Performance (SPP) 7].
• Informing and Communicating: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message [SPP 9].
• Collaboration/Teamwork: Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals; works with employees and across his/her department to achieve shared goals; treat others with dignity and respect and maintains a friendly demeanor; values the contributions of others [SPP 10].
• Leadership: Encourages innovation in practice and role performance to attain personal and professional plans, goals, and vision; manages change and conflict; retains accountability for delegated nursing care; contributes to the evolution of the profession through participation in professional organizations. [SPP 11].
• Professional Development: Actively identifies in new area with preceptor learning opportunities and unit specific competencies; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill to enhance contribution to the organization [SPP 12, 15].
• Evidence-based Practice and Research: Integrates evidence and research findings into practice; Articulates the values of research and its application relative to the healthcare setting; identifies questions in the healthcare setting and practice that can be answered by nursing research; uses current evidence-based knowledge, including research findings, to guide practice; incorporates evidence when initiating change in practice [SPP 13].
• Quality of Practice: Contributes to quality nursing practice: Ensures practice is safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, and patient centered; identifies barriers and opportunities to improve safety, effectiveness, efficiency, equitability, timeliness, and patient centeredness; recommends strategies to improve nursing quality [SPP 14].

Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility: None

Travel: None

Core Values

• Be available to work as scheduled and report to work on time.
• Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.
• Be well groomed, appropriate for your role and wear ID Badge visibly.
• Follow all departmental and institutional policies, the Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct and completes NetLearning by due date annually.
• Promotes a workplace culture based on mutual respect and merit, where all individuals are treated fairly and provided with equal opportunity to contribute to the mission and goals of the institution.
• Adheres to safe working practices and always follows all institutional and departmental safety policies and procedures.
• Wears appropriate PPE as outlined by the infection control policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates compliance with all state, federal and all other regulatory agency requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Graduation from an Accredited School of Nursing required, BSN preferred.
• Work Experience: None
• Special Training, Certification or Licensure: Current Colorado Registered Nurse (RN) License and current BLS certification required upon hire for all areas. Ambulatory Care Nursing Certification preferred.

Salary Range: $36.66 - $48.48

Benefits

At National Jewish Health, we recognize that our outstanding faculty and staff are the essence of our organization. For every aspect of health care, our employees are our greatest asset. With that in mind, we have designed a valuable, comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and their families.

• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Multiple Cigna health plans for Colorado, regional office and remote employees. Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) available to pair with some plans.
• Paid Time Off: Generous PTO accruals to use for vacation and sick days, and six paid holidays, all compliant with Colorado state sick leave regulations.
• Dental & Vision Plans: Coverage effective the first of the month after hire.
• Retirement Savings: 403(b) plan with employer contributions after two years.
• Wellness Incentives: Earn up to $200 annually for preventive health activities.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Up to $5,250 annually for full-time and part-time employees.
• Child Care Assistance: Childcare Flex Spending Account (FSA) with annual employer contribution.
• Loan Forgiveness: Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer.
• Disability & Life Insurance: Employer-paid plans and optional buy-up choices.
• Voluntary Benefits: Full suite of coverage options such as Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Legal Plan
• Exclusive Discounts: Savings on local services, insurance, and RTD bus passes.