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Employee Commute Incentive Available - up to $670 per pay period! 
$2,000 sign-on bonus!

Nexus-Mille Lacs Family Healing is excited to be adding a Registered Nurse to our residential team!

Nexus-Mille Lacs offers trauma-informed, family-centered, nationally recognized treatment for boys, ages 10-19, with significant mental health issues and harmful sexual behaviors. We strive to provide the best quality care for our youth as well as our employees. Nexus Family Healing is a national nonprofit network of mental health agencies with over 50 years of restoring hope for thousands of children and families through outpatient/community mental health services, foster care, adoption, and residential treatment. 

At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity.

Position Summary: The Nurse (RN) promotes the health and well-being to Nexus Family Healing residents by providing client-centered health care services, in accordance with Nexus Family Healing policies, procedures, and protocols. 

Pay and Schedule:

• Full-time; Typically 8am-5pm (can be flexible) with occasional on-call
• Location: 407 130th Ave S, Onamia, MN
• Starting at $40-$44 an hour

Nexus' Comprehensive Benefits Include:

• Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
• Multiple options for health insurance coverage
• No-cost life insurance
• Short/long-term disability insurance
• 401k match
• NEW - Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
• NEW - Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
• NEW Carrot Fertility Benefit
• Tuition assistance and training opportunities
• Advancement pathways and internal promotion
• And much more! 

Primary responsibilities:

Resident Medical Care

• Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams regarding medical aspects of client admissions.  
• Communicates medical concerns and coordinates necessary follow-up appointments, and/or referrals with interdisciplinary teams both internally and externally. 
• Collects and reviews clients' medical data and ensures that medical records are current and accurate.  
• Assesses nursing implications of all data pertaining to the resident and determines the need to communicate with the physician.  
• Monitors acute and chronic medical conditions of clients; provides treatment or consultation as needed.  
• In emergency situations, gather relevant information and assess client status. Provide appropriate care and/or treatment, direct others as necessary, and collaborate referral to a higher-level of care if appropriate. 

Treatment Team Collaboration

• Serves as a resource to staff and other interdisciplinary teams regarding client medical concerns.  
• Collaborates with the treatment staff to develop individual client treatment plans.  

Implement, monitor, and coordinate medication administration to clients

• Verify, count, and administer medications to residents. 
• Educates clients on medication side effects, adverse effects, and drug interactions. 
• Monitors clients daily for side effects, adverse effects, and/or drug interactions. 
• Ensures client prescriptions are filled and the appropriate amount is maintained through each client's stay within the residential milieu. 
• Monitors medication logbooks for completion and accuracy. 

Staff Meetings & Required Training

• Completes all required trainings that are department/role specific & facility-wide requirements. 
• Maintains and stay up to date with trainings and certifications (i.e., online trainings, internal and external in-person trainings, CPR certification, nursing license, first aid and safety, medication administration, and infection control etc. 
• Participates in internal training opportunities with community partners. 

Client Confidentiality

• Ensures client information remains confidential and compliant with Nexus policies involving client privacy, informed consent and confidentiality standards for clients and their families. 

 Required Education and Licensure:

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. 
• Valid Registered Nurse License. 
• 1 + year related nursing experience  
• First Aid/CPR/Infection Control certification 
• Valid driver's license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Home Office driving requirements 

Preferred Education and Experience:

• 1+ year related nursing experience in a residential setting.  

At Nexus Family Healing, our voices and actions are focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.
Our ICARE Values:

• Innovation: Leading the way and implementing creative, cutting-edge ideas and approaches
• Compassion: Listening, honoring differences, and showing respect, kindness, empathy care, and concern
• Agility: Exhibiting flexibility and adapting quickly
• Responsiveness: Being quick, positive, and accurate
• Excellence: Demonstrating quality results that surpass ordinary standards

APPLY TODAY TO BE CONTACTED BY OUR RECRUITING TEAM!  When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!Key Words: "Nursing", "Residential Treatment Facilities", "Non-Profit", "Children's Mental Health", "#caring career", "Registered Nurse", "RN,", "Crisis Center", "#LI-onsite", "Youth Crisis Center", "Youth shelter", "Hennepin County", "Part Time" 

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