Registered Nurse

Employee Commute Incentive

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 of 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 8 am–5 pm (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, gathers relevant information and assesses client status. Provides appropriate care and/or treatment, directs others as necessary, and collaborates for 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 stays 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…