RN Mental Health Float

Number of Job Openings Available:

1

Date Posted:

June 25, 2024

Department:

38014083 Unity Adult Mental Health Partial Unit

Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Shift Length:

8 hour shift

Hours Per Week:

40

Union Contract:

Non-Union

Weekend Rotation:

None

Job Summary:

Allina Health has a robust Mental Health and Addiction Clinical Service Line which offers the full continuum of care including integration, specialty outpatient clinics, addiction and co-occurring services, partial hospitalization and day treatment, and inpatient care. There are more than 290 mental health and addiction clinicians dedicated to the highest quality patient care across 45 primary care clinics, 6 integrated psychiatry locations, 4 hospital-based clinics, 15 partial and day treatment programs, 15 Allina and affiliated Emergency Departments, and 7 hospitals with 270 inpatient beds. The Mental Health and Addiction Clinical Service Line is led by both psychiatry and psychology clinical leadership, in partnership with operations to advance mental health care for patients across Allina Health.

Key Position Details:

Full-time float RN position with a home base, paid mileage to travel outside of normal commute when covering in-person at any site. Some coverage expectations will be virtual as well.

• Full-time, M-F, day hours, no weekends, or major holidays

• Experience with adolescent and/or adult mental health treatment preferred;

• Experience with Partial Hospital level of care preferred;

• Nurses work directly with patients, facilitating groups on health/wellness education, and assists in coordination of care within the inter-disciplinary team.

Expected duties include (virtual or in-person):

• Group facilitation on education within nursing scope;

• Assist with screening patients for program admission;

• Assist provider with FMLA/STD paperwork;

• Medication administration as needed within adolescent programs;

• Additional duties as assigned (answering phones, setting up appointments, milieu management, supply management, assist staff and providers as needed, chart audits, etc.)

Job Description:

Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human response to actual or potential health problems. This includes establishing an intentional therapeutic relationship between a registered nurse and a patient and family. As a leader and the integrator of care, the professional nurse has the responsibility, authority, and accountability for planning, coordinating and evaluating the patient's care needs.

Participates in and supports program development, nursing research, staff development and quality initiatives. May also provide coordination of care along a defined care pathway.

Principle Responsibilities

• Comprehensive assessment of patient and family needs; identification of outcomes based on needs assessment; establishing the plan of care; supervising the progress; and modification of the plan of care as needed.

• Maintains education and competencies to remain proficient to provide high quality patient care practice and skills.

• Incorporates evidence-based nursing practice taking into consideration current statutes, rules and regulations when developing the plan of care.

• Establishes, in the collaboration with the family and patient, realistic and measurable patient expected outcomes based on nursing diagnoses, patients present and potential capabilities, goals, available resources and plan for continuity of care.

• Identifies outcomes that are age appropriate, culturally appropriate, realistic and attainable.

• Coordinates, collaborates, and delegates appropriately to ensure care is provided in a safe, effective fashion.

• Fulfills all organizational requirements.

• Supplemental roles:

• Charge Nurse (only when acting in this role).

• Demonstrates ability to coordinate, delegate, and direct unit operation, collaborates effectively with unit staff, leadership and other disciplines.

• Preceptor (only when acting in this role).

• Demonstrates ability to identify the orientee's learning needs, plans appropriate learning experiences and demonstrates ability to validate clinical competence of orientee.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Associate's or Vocational degree

• Community Hospitals (Buffalo, Cambridge, Owatonna, Faribault, Regina, New Ulm, and River Falls): INTERNAL APPLICANTS must have Associate's degree or Bachelor's degree required. EXTERNAL APPLICANTS in Specialty areas (ICU, Mom/Baby, ED, OR/Procedural areas and Mental Health) must have Associate's degree with one year of applicable experience required. In Non-Specialty areas, Bachelor's degree preferred, Associate's degree required.

• Bachelor's degree for external applicants at metro hospitals and St. Francis in a non-specialty area or

• Bachelor's degree for external applicants at metro hospitals and St. Francis in a specialty area (ICU, Mom/Baby, Emergency Department, OR/procedural areas and mental health) required or Associate's degree in nursing with at least one year of experience in the specialty they are applying for or

• Associate's or Vocational degree or Bachelors degree for internal applicants at metro hospitals and St. Francis or

• Bachelor's degree preferred for external applicants at community hospitals in a non-specialty area, Associate's degree or

• Associate's or Vocational degree for external applicants in a specialty area (ICU, Mom/Baby, Emergency Department, OR/procedural areas and mental health) with one year of applicable experience required. Nurse executive approval or

• Associate's or Vocational degree or Bachelor's degree for internal applicants at community hospitals

• 2 to 5 years RN experience in clinical area relevant to position

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• RN-C Preferredin department specialty

Licenses/Certifications

• Licensed Registered Nurse

• MN Board of Nursing required if working in state of MN upon hire / WI Department of Safety & Professional Services required if working in the state of WI upon hire

• Must meet at least ONE of the requirements below:

• Current BLS certification from the American Heart Association

• Current BLS certification from the American Red Cross

• Allina in-house BLS training (within 30 days of hire)

• RN-C in department specialty preferred

• Advanced Life Support or Specialty Life Support may be required depending on the department

• Valid Driver's License required upon hire

• MN and WI residents must obtain a valid driver's license in their state of residence within 60 days of employment if working in MHI Pacer Department

Physical Demands

• Medium Work*:
• Lifting weight

Up to 32 lbs. occasionally (*Allina Safe Patient Moving Policy), Up to 25 lbs. frequently