The Role
Provides emergency nursing care in a rural critical access hospital. Responsibilities include triage, rapid assessment, trauma and critical-care stabilization, emergency procedures, medication and IV administration, patient monitoring, documentation, care coordination, transfers, and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams. The RN supports trauma readiness, quality improvement, patient safety, and evidence-based practice while caring for patients across the lifespan, including pediatric, adult, geriatric, behavioral health, stroke, sepsis, and cardiac emergency cases.
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Bring Your Emergency Nursing Skills Where They Matter Most
Are you an experienced Emergency Department nurse looking to make a real impact?
Conejos County Hospital is seeking compassionate, confident Registered Nurses to join our Emergency Department team. We are currently hiring a Full-Time Night Shift Emergency Department RN to help provide exceptional care in our rural Critical Access Hospital.
At Conejos County Hospital, you'll practice the full scope of emergency nursing. Every shift is different—from trauma activations and cardiac emergencies to pediatric patients, behavioral health, stroke, sepsis, and critical care stabilization. If you're looking for autonomy, teamwork, and the opportunity to truly make a difference, we'd love to meet you. At Conejos County Hospital, you'll work alongside a close-knit team where your knowledge, judgment, and compassion make a difference every day. Rural emergency nursing offers a unique opportunity to build strong clinical skills, practice independently, and care for patients when they need you most.
If you're looking for a rewarding Emergency Department career where you'll be valued as both a clinician and a teammate, we'd love to welcome you to our team.
Why Choose Conejos County Hospital?
As a Critical Access Hospital serving the San Luis Valley, our nurses enjoy a collaborative environment where every team member plays a vital role.
Our department features:
• Six-bed Emergency Department
• Six-bed Acute Care/Medical-Surgical Unit
• Three-RN core staffing model consisting of a Charge Nurse, an Emergency Department RN, and an Acute Care RN
• Emergency Department provider on site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Strong collaboration with EMS, regional trauma centers, and specialty services
• Opportunity to care for patients across the entire lifespan
• Supportive leadership committed to education, innovation, and professional development
What You'll Need:
- At minimum, Associates degree in nursing. BSN is preferred.
- Current active Colorado Registered Nurse license.
- Previous Critical Access Hospital or rural emergency nursing experience preferred.
- Trauma and emergency care experience preferred.
- At minimum, current AHA and BLS Certification, required upon hire.
- Emergency Department Requirements: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
What You'll Do:
- Rapidly assess, triage, and prioritize patients presenting with emergent and urgent conditions.
- Deliver evidence-based emergency nursing care to pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients.
- Stabilize trauma and critically ill patients utilizing advanced assessment and critical thinking skills.
- Collaborate closely with Emergency Department providers, EMS, respiratory therapy, laboratory, radiology, and the interdisciplinary care team.
- Assist with emergency procedures, trauma resuscitations, conscious sedation, and life-saving interventions.
- Administer medications, blood products, IV therapy, and emergency treatments safely and accurately.
- Monitor, reassess, and document patient responses throughout their emergency department stay.
- Coordinate transfers to higher levels of care when appropriate.
- Maintain a calm, compassionate presence while delivering exceptional patient- and family-centered care.
- Support quality improvement, trauma readiness, patient safety initiatives, and evidence-based practice.
We Take Care of Our People
As the largest employer in the San Luis Valley, we commit to providing our employees with quality and affordable benefits to complement a fulfilling work experience and help balance life experiences and needs. To show our appreciation of your hard work, we offer a competitive and comprehensive total benefits package, including:
- Full medical, dental and vision plans to suit the needs of you and your family, with low-cost copays and deductibles, all without high out-of-pocket expenses.
- Enjoy a generous amount of Paid Time Off and Sick Leave in your first year with accruals starting on your first day!
- Start saving with Retirement plans available from day one, providing up to 5% employer match after one year of employment.
- Free life and disability insurance benefits for full-time employees with the opportunity to purchase additional coverage at low costs.
- Add to your benefit package with a variety of voluntary benefits such as identity theft protection, medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts and more.
- Take care of yourself with our free on-site 24-hour employee health center, and discounts to a selection of local fitness/recreational centers.
- Keep learning by utilizing our education program benefits to foster your growth and development.
- Give back to the community with multiple opportunities throughout the year to volunteer with our own non-profit SLV Health Foundation and other SLV- and community-sponsored events.
- Discounts on cell-phone plans, ski/snowboard lift tickets, Dell computers, local pools, Adams State University functions and more!
- Your family is our family so our employees and their family members have access to our employee support services, including up to four free counseling sessions to assist with work/life solutions.
Skills Required
- Associate degree in nursing
- Current active Colorado Registered Nurse license
- Current AHA Basic Life Support certification upon hire
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification
- Trauma Nursing Core Course certification
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Previous critical access hospital or rural emergency nursing experience
- Trauma and emergency care experience
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The Company
What We Do
San Luis Valley Health is a regional health provider serving the San Luis Valley, Colorado and beyond. In addition to our state-of-the-art 49-bed hospital located in Alamosa, we also operate six clinics throughout the Valley and another hospital in Conejos County. At San Luis Valley Health, you get a level of care that equals or exceeds that of major metropolitan hospitals. You also experience the warmth, dedication, and personal attention often found only in a smaller community. We are proud to offer talented, experienced caregivers who use the most advanced techniques and technology, along with a genuine sense of caring.
