RN- Healing Center - FTE
About the role
Come join the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) Healing Center as a Registered Nurse! In this role, you’ll provide compassionate, trauma-informed nursing care for adults in residential treatment, administering medications, monitoring symptoms and vital signs, supporting withdrawal management and MAT, and completing admissions and health assessments. You’ll collaborate closely with medical providers and an interdisciplinary team, maintain accurate documentation in NextGen, lead nursing education groups, support crisis response, and help ensure safe medication practices. The Registered Nurse (RN) delivers compassionate, trauma-informed nursing care to adult clients in residential (substance use disorder and/or mental health) treatment at the Healing Center. The RN plays a key role in ensuring medical safety, supporting withdrawal management protocols, administering medications, and working collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team. This role also includes transporting clients to offsite appointments and other approved activities using facility motorpool vehicles. The RN contributes to a culturally respectful healing environment, with special emphasis on the needs of Native American clients, particularly those from the four Dakota tribes.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct nursing care including medication administration, symptom monitoring, vital signs, and withdrawal management according to clinical protocols.
- Assess, document, and respond to medical needs and collaborate with medical providers