Nursing Opportunities

We invite you to join our staff at The Children's Hospital. Every day can be a journey of discovery and healing at our Magnet designated facility. With our consistent ranking by U.S.News & World Report as one of the 10 best children's hospitals in America and the grand opening of our new hospital, there has never been a better time to join our team. Here are a few highlights of our nursing program:

  • Commitment to family-centered care
  • Nationally competitive salaries and benefits
  • Pediatric Nurse Development program
  • Competency-based orientation and Clinical Ladder program (5 levels)
  • Generous differentials (including weekend), tuition reimbursement
  • Relocation assistance available
  • Variable staffing patterns (full time, part time, Flex and PRN)
  • Traditional and non-traditional hours (4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 hour shifts)
  • Flex, Float and Critical Care Float Teams
  • Unit-based self-governance models
  • Nursing research, precepting opportunities, paid conference days
  • Active Rocky Mountain Chapter Society of Pediatric Nurses

Experienced RN's

We value your experience and will support your professional growth. Nurses practice autonomously and are accountable for delivering high quality, safe, effective and fiscally responsible care to children and their families. In collaboration with all members of the healthcare team, nurses provide holistic and culturally sensitive care that creates a healing experience and honors the integrity of the family unit.  Nurses are responsible for being well-informed and involved advocates for their patients, families and their profession. Nurses play a vital role in informing the organization, community and legislature about current trends and issues related to child/family health care needs, services and the nursing profession.

Recent Nursing Graduates

We will be accepting new graduate BSN applications through October 2008 for January/February 2009 start dates. Please search our website job listings for Clinical Nurse I positions.  Read more about specific units that may be hiring new graduates (.pdf). Positions will be posted at different times by various units, so please check the website frequently.

Nursing orientation for new graduates is a blended format which includes 5 classroom days supplemented with a variety of online learning modules. Interviews will take place per manager/scheduling committee schedule. Offers will be made contingent upon passing NCLEX.

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP's)

Our NNP's ensure that the smallest patients receive the finest care. We do so through our unique working environment that combines strong professional autonomy with exceptional technological capabilities. 

Our NNP group provides services to several hospitals throughout the Denver Metro Area, as well as outlying smaller communities.  We are committed to evidence based practice.  As individuals, our clinical interests include chronic lung disease, nutrition, antenatal substance exposure, NNP education, NNP billing, international healthcare and medical missions, pain, hyperbilirubinemia, pulmonary hypertension and neurodevelopment.  Some of us serve at the national level;  NANN/AWHONN liaison to America Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Fetus and Newborn, steering committee for the New NANNP.  Others are active at the local level teaching NNP students at Regis University or providing continuing education opportunities to neonatal nurses.

As we expand our program, we seek new NNP's to join our team. A Masters Degree, state recognized APN, NCC, and prescriptive authority certification are required.  A minimum of one year Level III NICU experience is preferred.

Pediatric Nurse Orientation

Every newly hired RN participates in our Pediatric Nurse Development Program. This is a centralized orientation program consisting of blended learning (classroom and online modules) and precepted clinical experience. 

New hires attend an 8 hour "Square One orientation" scheduled on Tuesdays by Human Resources.  Two additional general orientations are held throughout the first 3 months. All hires within the Division of Nursing (RNs and Unlicensed Personnel) will be scheduled for Nursing Orientation classes by the department education coordinators from each unit.