RN/ Registered Nurse - Chisago

Fairview Health Services; Minnesota; On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Fairview Health Services is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) for the Chisago Clinic. This 0.6 FTE role features a three-day workweek with specific hours on Monday, Thursday, and Friday, focusing on comprehensive patient assessment and coordinated care.

You will develop individualized care plans, collaborate with the health care team, and ensure documentation aligns with policy and MN Nurse Practice Act requirements.

Qualifications

• Must hold MN RN license.
• BLS certification required by end of orientation.
• 1–3 years of experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient needs and identify expected nursing outcomes.
• Develop an individualized nursing plan of care and update it as needed.
• Coordinate care with the health care team and family members.

Skills

Nursing assessment

Care planning

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Patient education

Documentation

Education

RN license

BLS certification

Tools

EHR systems

MS Word

Excel

Email

Job description

Job Overview

Fairview Health Services has an opening for a Registered Nurse (RN) at the Chisago Clinic. This position is approved for 0.6 FTE (48 hours per pay period) and offers a consistent three-day-per-week schedule:

• Monday: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
• Thursday: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
• Friday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

The Registered Nurse is responsible for the assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of nursing care for all assigned patient population(s). The RN is responsible for performing these responsibilities in accordance with all policy, procedures, professional practice guidelines and the MN Nurse Practice Act. The RN coordinates care with members of the health care team and delegates responsibilities to others as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Assesses patient needs and identifies expected nursing outcomes.
• Involves the patient, family, and other health team members in gathering data.
• Uses an ongoing, systematic process to gather relevant information (biological, psychological, spiritual, and social aspects) from patient and family.
• Analyzes data and information to identify potential risks, prioritize needs and determine priority problems.
• Identifies outcomes that are age appropriate, culturally appropriate, realistic, and attainable.
• Validates these with patient, family, and other health team members.
• Documents data and identified outcomes.
• Develops an individualized nursing plan of care.
• Collaborates with patient, family, and other health team members to develop a nursing plan as part of an integrated, comprehensive plan of care
• Develops an individualized plan based on age, social and cultural considerations, condition, and other relevant needs.
• Determines nursing interventions based on identified needs.
• Identifies interdisciplinary resources needed to assist in implementing the nursing plan of care.
• Prioritizes interventions based on patient acuity, available resources, and patient/family preferences and needs.
• Documents and updates the plan of care to assure continuity throughout the continuum of care.
• Implements nursing interventions based on the plan of care.
• Provides care according to the plan, and in accordance with all relevant policies, procedures, and nursing practice guidelines.
• Coordinates nursing care with the care of all other health team members.
• Initiates age and culturally appropriate measures to support and meet patient needs while achieving expected outcomes.
• Initiates patient/family teaching as appropriate to age, readiness to learn and available resources.
• Collaborates, consults, or makes referrals if unable to perform safely and independently.
• Delegates direct and indirect patient care activities to appropriate personnel based on needs, condition, potential for risk/harm, complexity of the skill and predictability of the outcome.
• Assures all actions are based on scientific, ethical, or ecological principles; proven effectiveness; experience; practice standards; patient/family requests and values; or, legal parameters.
• Uses the full range of therapeutic modalities to support and augment the healing process, moving from least intensive and invasive to more, depending on need and context.
• Documents interventions according to practice guidelines.
• Anticipates, recognizes, and responds to emergent situations.
• Evaluates care and patient response to interventions and expected outcomes.
• Systematically and continuously evaluates patient’s response to interventions and the effectiveness of the plan of care
• Modifies the interventions based on patient response and changing patient condition.
• Involves the patient, family, and other health team members in evaluating care.
• Uses ongoing assessment data to revise patient needs, priority problems, nursing outcomes and the plan of care.
• Uses communication strategies to achieve desirable outcomes.
• Communicates verbal and written information in a clear, concise, accurate, and timely manner.
• Uses communication strategies appropriate to patient/family needs for information, education, and support.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively and respectfully with the patient, family, and members of the health care team within and across care settings to promote partnership-based health care
• Demonstrates the ability to advance care by utilizing standards, guidelines, care pathways and continuous improvement to enhance patient outcomes.
• Identifies gaps in care and practice and brings them forward to applicable person(s)
• Utilizes improvement methodologies
• Incorporates data and information into practice to continuously improve or innovate care
• Promotes a culture of evidence-based practice (EBP) by participation in any of, but not limited to, the following activities:
• Utilizes evidence-based policies in clinical practice
• Attends and participate in learning opportunities about EBP
• Member of hospital or area-based nursing practice council or research council
• Completes an evidence-based practice project (e.g. policy development or poster presentation)
• Presents an EBP finding to your peers
• Journal club member
• Critiques and circulate a journal article relating to nursing practice
• Reviews the literature on a practice question
• Develops a standard/pathway/guideline for patient care
• Participates in a research study
• Demonstrates ability to provide care or service adjusting approaches to reflect developmental level and cultural differences of population served.
• Information Technology:
• Basic Computer Competencies – using the computer, email, basic use of word / excel, and web browsing
• Information Literacy – ability to determine information needed, efficiently access, and critically evaluates that information, apply use information for patient care, and evaluate the use of information.
• Information Management – verbalize importance of health information systems for nursing practice, maintain confidentiality, privacy, and security of protected patient health information, adequately navigate health information systems, and abide by policies and procedures pertinent to health information system use.

Required Qualifications

• MN Registered Nurse (RN) License
• Basic Life Support (American Heart Assoc or Red Cross) at the end of orientation

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing or BAN
• 1-3 years of experience

Benefit Overview

Fairview offers a generous benefits package, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, PTO/vacation and Safe and Sick Time, tuition reimbursement, retirement and more! Please follow this link for additional information: https://www.fairview.org/benefits/lakesrn

Compensation Disclaimer

The posted compensation range corresponds to the minimum and maximum pay rates outlined in your union agreement for the respective job classifications at the time of job posting. An individual's pay rate within this range may be influenced by various factors, including FTE, skills, knowledge, educational background, and qualifying experience as specified in the contract. If your role is eligible for a sign-on bonus, the bonus program that is approved and in place at the time of offer, is what will be honored.

EEO Statement

EEO/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status