RN - Burnsville Clinic

This is a 1.0 FTE (40 hours/week) Monday - Friday RN position with hours ranging between 7:30am to 5:30pm. This position is for the Burnsville Clinic in Burnsville MN.

This position exists to administer family-centered nursing care to patients advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention and/or provide skilled assistance in navigation of the health care system as appropriate to the developmental cultural emotional and medical surgical or rehabilitative needs of the patient and their families.

Specific duties are determined by the work setting or patient population served; however in all positions serving patients with challenging and complex conditions requires a concentration of specialized staff able to work in highly coordinated teams. We organize care around each patients condition which requires staff at multiple levels and across many departments to exhibit exceptional teamwork qualities including communicating efficiently and effectively and adopting the behaviors required for high functioning integrated teams.

Compensation & Benefits Information

The hourly wage for this opportunity is $39.86 to $66.46. Pay is dependent on several factors including number of hours worked within the field education and certification/licensure. Hourly pay just one part of the compensation package for employees. Gillette supports career progression and offers a competitive benefits package that includes a retirement savings match tuition and certification reimbursement paid time off and health and wellness benefits for .5 FTE and above.

Core Responsibilities and Duties

Patient Care Delivers patient care which optimizes the patients health status and outcomes using the nursing process.

• Demonstrates thorough assessments.
• Creates individualized plans of care that are evidence-based.
• Successfully implements interventions.
• Completes timely accurate and thorough documentation.
• Effectively prioritizes.
• Evaluates patient care based on best practices.
• Communicates patient-related nursing data and information to enhance active and informed decision making by patients families nurse colleagues and other healthcare providers.
• Manage between visit patient needs.
• Care coordination
• Prepares for clinics through chart prep which includes review of current and outside records images and communication regarding the plan of care for patients.

Family centered care - Provides nursing care and health education reflecting specific patient family cultural and community needs.

• Identifies the learning needs of the population served.
• Implements an effective teaching plan.
• Provide specialty focused patient education
• Employs strategies to promote health in a safe environment.
• Seeks opportunity to evaluate effectiveness of health education as culturally and developmentally appropriate.
• Adapts to staffing and clinic workflow needs based on patient care needs and availability of staff space and services.

Autonomous Practice Exercises independent judgment that influences care and demonstrates understanding of potential clinical implications.

• Supervises delegates and provides care based on the abilities and limitations of care personnel and patient acuity.
• Identifies and incorporates evidence-based improvements into own daily work.

Procedures and Policies Identifies interprets and implements organizational policies and procedures according to regulations professional and community standards.

• Protects the confidentiality of personal health information.
• Holds self and others accountable to a healthy work environment.
• Maintain professional boundaries.
• Must follow infection prevention practices.

Active Engagement Actively represents the department in committees task forces unit activities or other work groups and disseminates information and decisions to colleagues and peers using the Engaged Professional Practice Model.

• Attend a minimum of 75% of department staff meetings.
• Attend a minimum of 75% of committee meetings.
• Demonstrates meaningful contributions to the productivity of the professional environment of the department.
• Supports work of Clinical Shared Governance initiatives.

Professional Development and Quality Improvement - Participates in activities that promote professional growth ease of access quality improvement and patient satisfaction.

• Maintains professional competence by pursuing opportunities for professional growth.
• Identifies and applies basic research methods in a continuous quality improvement approach.
• Pursues own professional growth and contributes to the growth of others.
• Engages in honest and appropriate communication with others.
• Demonstrates progress toward or completion of existing goals.
• Performs chart audits and review as needed for Quality Improvement compliance and metrics.

Qualifications

Required

• Documentation of completion of professional nursing program (RN program)
• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license through the MN Board of Nursing
• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (exception: Telehealth RNs). If candidate holds valid CPR through another acceptable organization (as determined by Gillette) candidate may be able to begin employment but must complete Basic Life Support through the American Heart Association within one month of employment.
• Must be interested in working with people with short-term or long-term disabilities that begin in childhood
• Physically able to work hours required and meet physical demands of the position.

Preferred

• Bachelors degree in nursing or other healthcare related field
• Prior nursing experience in a health-related setting
• Nursing Specialty Certification relevant to the position (ex. Pediatrics Palliative & Holistic Nursing Care Management)

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Excellent customer service skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to multitask and prioritize
• Able to complete accurate thorough specialty-based assessments
• Basic keyboarding and computer skills

At Gillette Childrens we foster a culture where every team member feels a sense of belonging and purpose. We are dedicated to building an environment where all feel welcomed respected and supported. Our values are embedded at the heart of our culture. We act first from love embrace the bigger picture and work side-by-side with our patientsfamilies and colleagues to help every child create their own story. Together we work to ensure patients of all backgrounds and abilities reach their full potential.

Gillette Childrens is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of an individuals race color creed sex religion national origin age disability marital status familial status genetic information status with regard to public assistance sexual orientation or gender identity military status or any other class protected by federal state or local laws.

Gillette Childrens is a global beacon of care for patients with brain bone and movement conditions that start in childhood. Our research treatment and supportive technologies enable every child to lead a full life defined by their dreams not their diagnoses.

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