New Graduate RN - Colorado Springs (August 2025)

A Front Row Seat to Innovation

Position Purpose- The New Graduate Nurse Residency Program at Children's Hospital Colorado is your entry point into a meaningful career at a top-ranked pediatric hospital. We provide innovative training that exposes new graduate RNs to the future of children's healthcare. Our mission is to provide evidence-based support and education for pediatric nurses in their first year of transition to professional practice. We give graduates the tools, resources, and support to develop as confident, competent, skilled pediatric nurses and interprofessional team members.

Annual Salary: $71,760.00

Eligible Incentives: Relocation assistance available for those moving from 100 miles or greater.

Hours per week: 36 - 40, eligible for benefits

Shift: Rotating Days/Nights; This position requires weekend and holiday shifts. Varies by unit.

Start Date: August 18, 2025

The hiring units for the August 2025 cohort include:

• Medical/Surgical
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
• Emergency Department

**Please attach cover letter and resume (in that order) as a single document when uploading to the application (this document can be uploaded into the "resume" section of the application. You do not need to add any documents in the "cover letter" section). Title the uploaded document as "First Name Last Name Application*.

**At the bottom of your cover letter identify the two units in which you are most interested.

After submitting your online application, please also fill out the required online questionnaire by accessing this link.

This link may also be emailed to you after submitting your online application. *Please only complete the online questionnaire once.

Make an Impact

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). Must have graduated from a National League of Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC) or Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) accredited nursing program.

Experience: Candidates must have graduated from an accredited nursing program within the past 12 months of a cohort start date unless an exemption is obtained per process.

Equivalency: A Master's Entry to Practice Nursing (MEPN) may substitute for a BSN

Licensure: Current Colorado Registered Nurse (RN) license or RN license from multistate compact.

Certification(s): BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association with at least 6 months left before expiration is required upon hire.

Job Highlights: Family-Centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs.

• Utilizes and documents the nursing process to provide developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence-based care. Identifies changes in patient outcomes in the provision of care.
• Care is guided by the Professional Practice Model in conjunction with preceptor and other clinical resources.
• Elicits patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care and assessment of patient/family learning needs. Initiates and coordinates individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.

Teamwork & Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.

• Demonstrates awareness of own limitations and contributions to effective team functioning.
• Functions competently within own scope of practice as a member of the interdisciplinary team.
• Identifies differences in communication style preferences among patients, families and members of the interdisciplinary team.

Evidence Based Practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.

• Identifies key concepts of research and evidence-based practice.
• Participates in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
• Critically appraises studies and clinical practice guidelines for validity, importance and applicability to practice.
• Recognizes the standard of care provided by the applicable professional organization and /or association.

Quality Improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.

• Describes and utilizes outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions.
• Seeks information about the quality improvement process.
• Incorporates quality initiatives into daily practice.

Safety: Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

• Applies information about safety initiatives.
• Locates and utilizes policies, procedures and guidelines to guide safe practice.
• Demonstrates use of technology and standards of practice to reduce risk of harm.

Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making.

• Identifies information and technology to assess patient outcomes to aid in communication, decision making, error prevention, and care coordination.
• Navigates and documents in the EMR to support patient care.

Leadership: Agents of change within the organization, involved in committees, professional development and supports organizational goals, as well as active participants in the community. Nurses support organizational goals, advance the nursing profession, and enhance professional development by extending their influence to professional and community groups.

• Works within scope of practice and delegates according to Nurse Practice Act.
• Participates in professional development activities such as:

Total Rewards and Benefits

Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision insurance, life and disability insurance, 403b employer match (retirement savings), robust wellness program, and education benefit to help you advance your career.

Total Rewards package: Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Loan Repayment: Children's Hospital Colorado is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)

Here, it's different

At Children's Hospital Colorado, we know our stories are never ours and ours alone. It takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat. That is why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors. It is an ending we can only write together. Come write your story with us!

Kids are Incredibly Different

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Children's Hospital Colorado provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Please note: If you require a reasonable accommodation to assist you with the recruitment process, reach out to ADA@childrenscolorado.org.

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Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years. We've been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report. A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child.

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid sick leave and a robust wellness program.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.