Registered Nurse (RN) - Outpatient Clinics in Denver, Colorado at National Jewish Health

At National Jewish Health, Registered Nurses (RN) play an essential role in advancing our mission to heal, discover, and educate. Working within a nationally recognized specialty care environment, Registered Nurses (RN) partner with interdisciplinary teams to deliver compassionate, patient-centered care for individuals with complex respiratory, immune, and related conditions. Through clinical expertise, advocacy, and collaboration, Registered Nurses (RN) help improve outcomes, support patients and families, and contribute to the exceptional care experience that defines National Jewish Health.

We are currently hiring Registered Nurses (RN) across multiple specialty clinics and care settings:

• Adult Pulmonary Clinic: Provides care for patients with acute and chronic respiratory conditions. This clinic assesses and manages patients with respiratory illnesses, develops individualized care plans in collaboration with the healthcare team, monitors patient progress and treatment effectiveness, and provides education on respiratory health and disease management while supporting pulmonary testing and in-office procedures.
• Adult ILD Clinic: Delivers specialized care for patients with complex, chronic lung conditions. This clinic collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to develop patient-centered care plans, monitor treatment response, and provide comprehensive education on disease management, treatment options, and self-care strategies for individuals living with ILD.
• Adult Gastroenterology (GI) Clinic: Provides comprehensive care for patients with digestive and liver-related conditions. This clinic partners with a multidisciplinary team to develop individualized care plans, monitor patient progress, and provide education on disease management, treatment options, and self-care strategies to support long-term digestive health.
• Adult Asthma & Allergy Clinic: Provides specialized care for patients with asthma, allergies, and related respiratory conditions. This clinic develops individualized treatment plans, monitors response to therapy, and provides education on symptom management, environmental triggers, medications, and self-care strategies.
• Occupational Medicine Clinic: Focuses on the prevention, evaluation, and management of work-related illnesses and exposures. This clinic assesses occupational health concerns, coordinates care and treatment plans, monitors patient progress, and provides education on workplace health, safety, and return-to-work recommendations.
• Rheumatology Clinic: Provides comprehensive care for patients with autoimmune, inflammatory, and musculoskeletal conditions. This clinic develops individualized care plans, monitors disease activity and treatment response, and provides education on disease management, medications, treatment options, and self-care strategies to support long-term health and wellness.

Registered Nurses enjoy a consistent Monday-Friday schedule with no nights, weekends, holidays, or on-call responsibilities. Join National Jewish Health and be part of a mission-driven team committed to delivering exceptional patient care, advancing medical discovery, and improving lives through innovation and compassion.

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.

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