Job Description:

Exciting Career Opportunity!

Our iFlex Internal Travel Agency is hiring for a Step Down Registered Nurse role at Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado. This is a great opportunity for an experienced Step Down RN who enjoys caring for higher-acuity patients and thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

As part of Intermountain Health, you’ll work alongside dedicated healthcare professionals committed to providing high-quality, compassionate care while making a meaningful impact for patients and the communities we serve.

About the iFlex RN Role:

As an iFlex RN, you will be part of Intermountain’s internal travel agency, supporting multiple sites across our network. This role requires adaptability and a strong commitment to providing high-quality, patient-centered care. You’ll be responsible for delivering nursing care across various units, working collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams, and ensuring optimal patient outcomes.

The iFlex RN assumes responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for patients. You will utilize clinical knowledge, critical thinking, and evidence-based practice while maintaining the flexibility to float to other units within the facility as needed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform comprehensive assessments and closely monitor patients with complex or changing conditions
• Recognize and respond quickly to changes in patient status
• Develop and implement individualized plans of care using clinical judgment and evidence-based practices
• Administer medications, treatments, and interventions according to established protocols
• Monitor vital signs, cardiac rhythms, and other clinical indicators as appropriate
• Collaborate with physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, and other members of the interdisciplinary care team
• Educate patients and families regarding diagnoses, treatments, medications, and discharge plans
• Coordinate patient transfers, transitions of care, and discharge planning
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation while adhering to legal, ethical, and professional nursing standards

Typical Admissions:

• Cardiac and telemetry patients
• Patients requiring closer monitoring following surgery or procedures
• Respiratory conditions requiring increased monitoring
• Complex medical and surgical patients
• Patients transitioning from the ICU to a lower level of care
• Patients with changing or higher-acuity clinical needs
• Patients requiring frequent assessments and interventions

Compensation and Benefits:

• Competitive pay in line with local and national travel RN rates
• Pay rates are reviewed quarterly and adjusted based on market trends; each assignment will have a consistent pay rate
• For assignments more than 50 miles from the employee's home, pro-rated monthly housing reimbursement will be provided
• Employees are responsible for securing their own housing during each travel assignment

Posting Specifics:

• Specialty: Step Down / Progressive Care
• Shift Details: Variable shifts
• Schedule: Full-time hours during a 3-month assignment; 2–3 assignments per calendar year required
• Pay Rate: $58–$65/hour flat rate, based on location and specialty (adjusted quarterly)

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2 years of recent Step Down, Progressive Care, PCU, or comparable higher-acuity RN experience
• Current RN license in the state of practice
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers

Travel Requirements

• Expected to fill Step Down shifts at Saint Joseph Hospital
• Our iFlex RNs are expected to float if not needed at assigned facility.
• All iFlex employees will be expected to accept assignments in any Intermountain region and work at any Intermountain facility. This includes locations in Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Nevada.

Join our dynamic iFlex RN team, where your clinical expertise and flexibility will make a meaningful impact on patient care across our growing network.

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.

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The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

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 package here.

By applying for a position with Intermountain, I acknowledge that I will comply with all applicable Intermountain policies and expectations. If applying for a remote or hybrid role, this includes remote work expectations related to confidentiality, information security, work schedules, conflicts of interest, and use of company equipment. I further acknowledge that outside employment or activities may not interfere with job responsibilities or create a conflict of interest with Intermountain. Actual or reasonably perceived conflicts may be grounds for disqualification from consideration or, if hired, corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

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