About this role
Fairview is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) for the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health Department at our M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center (UMMC) West Bank location in Minneapolis, MN.
At our Adolescent and Child Inpatient Mental Health unit, we're looking for dedicated individuals to join our dynamic team in providing mental health support for children and adolescents aged 10-18. We're committed to fostering therapeutic engagement through group activities, Occupational Therapy (OT), Therapeutic Recreation (TR), and other therapeutic groups to aid in our young patients' recovery journey. Whether they arrive subdued and depressed or in a state of decompensation and mania, we maintain strict safety guidelines to ensure their well-being.
If you're passionate about making a difference in child and adolescent mental healthcare, join us where care meets creativity, and together, we can empower the mental health and well-being of our young patients on their path to recovery.
Schedule: This position will be working 0.7 FTE (56 hours every two weeks). The shift length will be 8 hours on the night (11pm-7:30am) shift. This position will also work a rotation for every other weekend.
About this Department:
- The 13-bed facility offers a unique environment, including single and double rooms, to cater to a diverse patient population.
- Care for children and adolescents aged 10-18.
- Our unit is not only a place of healing, but also a fun and vibrant environment. You'll often find our dedicated staff engaging and playing with young patients, fostering camaraderie and support.
As a Registered Nurse in the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health Department, you will be responsible for:
- Utilizing a systematic process to assess the physical and mental health needs of the patient, which will provide a framework from which patient care is planned
- Administering medications used for the management of behavioral patients with knowledge of actions, contraindications, side effects and desired outcomes
- Evaluating the effectiveness of the nursing interventions in meeting the identified emotional, psychological and physical needs, making revisions based on these outcomes.
- Monitoring and maintaining a therapeutic environment through active involvement and demonstrated response to change in patient behavior
- Assessing patients on ongoing basis for risk of violence
- Uses therapeutic communication skills and follows the parameters of the therapeutic relationship
Required Qualifications:
- Current MN License
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- 1 year of Mental Health experience (preferred in the last 5 years)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Nursing (BSN)
- 1 year of Mental Health experience in the last 3 years.
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/tcmnarn
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
Other facts
About Fairview Health Services
Fairview Health Services is Minnesota’s choice for healthcare. We’re an industry-leading, award-winning, nonprofit offering a full network of healthcare services. Our broad network is designed to be ready for our patients’ every need, while delivering quality care with compassion.
Our care portfolio includes community hospitals, academic hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics, senior facilities, facilitated living centers, rehabilitation centers, home health care services, counseling, pharmacies and benefit management services.
We’re built on a tradition of compassionate care. This is our home, and our patients are our neighbors. We’re here to heal, we’re here for you.
We are part of M Health Fairview, an expanded academic health system that represents a collaboration among the University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Physicians, and Fairview Health Services. The partnership combines the university’s deep history of clinical innovation and training with Fairview’s extensive roots in community medicine.
Together, we’re expanding access to world-class, patient-centered care through our 10 hospitals, 60 primary care clinics, specialty clinics, pharmacies, home care, hospice, and medical transportation service.
Fairview also operates the Ebenezer senior living communities and offers Employer Solutions such as EAP and pharmacy benefit management.
Search for jobs and apply at https://www.fairview.org/careers.
What you'll do
- As a Registered Nurse, you will assess the physical and mental health needs of patients and administer medications while evaluating the effectiveness of nursing interventions. You will also monitor and maintain a therapeutic environment and assess patients for risk of violence.
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