RN Triage

About the role

Allina Health is a not-for-profit health system caring for individuals, families, and communities throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. This role is part of a centralized nursing program, outpatient, and home care services, including Triage services, Anti-coagulation, and refill.

Responsibilities

• Assessment: Collects, prioritizes, and synthesizes comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation.
• Diagnosis: Analyzes assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses, establishes realistic and measurable patient expected outcomes, and revises and resolves nursing diagnoses.
• Outcomes Identification: Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient.
• Planning: Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes, considers patient characteristics or the situation, and incorporates evidence-based interventions.
• Implementation: Implements the identified plan, documents interventions, and coordinates implementation of the plan of care if appropriate.
• Evaluation: Evaluates the patient’s progress towards attainment of the outcome, evaluates the patient’s/family’s understanding of and response to the plan of care, and revises diagnoses, outcomes, and the plan of care.
• Quality of Practice: Enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, participates in quality improvement activities, and utilizes available QI data to improve nursing practice and outcome.
• Education: Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice, participates in educational activities related to nursing practice, and applies knowledge gained from educational experiences to current nursing practice.
• Professional Practice Evaluation: Evaluates one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and regulatory guidelines, engages in self-evaluation of practice on a regular basis, identifies strengths and goals for professional development, and obtains informal feedback regarding one’s own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others.
• Collaboration: Collaborates with patient, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice, partners with others to effect change and generate positive outcomes through knowledge of the patient or situation, and shares knowledge and skills in practice settings.
• Leadership: Provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession, functions as a professional role model, promotes a positive work environment, participates in shared decision-making, and manages resources to assure they will be accessible to other in the future.
• Environmental Health: Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner, attains knowledge of environmental health concepts, promotes a practice environment that reduces environmental health risks for workers and healthcare consumers, communicates environmental health risks and exposure reduction strategies to healthcare consumers, families, colleagues and communities, and cross-trains to process medication refills.
• Charge Nurse: Demonstrates ability to coordinate and direct unit operation, promotes an environment that encourages individual growth, nurtures professional practice, and fosters teamwork, collaborates effectively with unit staff, leadership, and other disciplines, facilitates development of organizational and prioritization skills of orientee, facilitates socialization of orientee into the organization and work group, and serves as a professional role model.
• Preceptor: Demonstrates ability to identify the orientee's learning needs and plans appropriate learning experiences, demonstrates ability to implement an individualized orientation plan for the orientee, demonstrates ability to validate clinical competence of orientee, facilitates development of organizational and prioritization skills of orientee, facilitates interpersonal skills of orientee, serves as a professional role model, facilitates socialization of orientee into the organization and work group, and evaluates interpersonal skills of orientee.

Requirements

• Associate's or Vocational degree in nursing
• Minimum 3 years RN experience
• Proficiency in set up and usage of computer technology including the following software programs: Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel and SharePoint

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in triage, anticoagulation, or remote nursing support
• Licenses/Certifications: Licensed Registered Nurse-MN Board of Nursing required; Licensed Registered Nurse-WI Dept of Safety & Professional Services required by completion of orientation

Physical Demands

• Sedentary: Lifting weight up to 10 lbs. occasionally, negligible weight frequently.

Shift Details

• Every 4th weekend rotation
• Fully remote position, including orientation
• Occasional onsite requirements

Work Location

• Employee is required to live within 60 minutes of Apple Valley, MN or Coon Rapids, MN.

Pay Information

• Pay Range: $40.08 to $54.93 per hour
• Starting rate depends on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, experience, education, and the union agreement (if applicable).
• Shift, weekend and/or other differentials may be available to increase your pay rate for certain shifts or work.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental
• PTO/Time Away
• Retirement Savings Plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term/Long-term Disability
• Voluntary Benefits (vision, legal, critical illness)
• Tuition Reimbursement or Continuing Medical Education as applicable
• Student Loan Support
• Employee Resources Groups (ERGs)
• Community involvement and volunteering events
• Benefits to navigate the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program