Registered Nurse - ED Mental Health Stpl
About The Position
Coordinates and provides family-centered nursing care to infants, children, and adolescents using the nursing process. The nurse is accountable for professional practice, including independent nursing functions and delegated medical functions performed in collaboration with other health team members. The primary nursing population is patients in the Emergency Department Mental Health spaces, including children and adolescents with mental, behavioral, or emotional challenges who require acute stabilization. The role is based in the pediatric emergency department at Children’s Minnesota’s St. Paul hospital. The department is a 32-bed, Level IV trauma center that assesses and stabilizes acute pediatric illness, injury, and trauma. Its multidisciplinary team cares for more than 45,000 patients annually. The department includes an eight-patient Pediatric Empath space for acute mental health crises, designed to support rapid stabilization and disposition through trauma-informed care and a therapeutic milieu model. It also has seven mental health safer rooms for patients in an acute mental or behavioral health crisis with an unknown disposition. The department emphasizes teamwork, open communication, safety, respect, learning, and professional growth. Care is family-centered and incorporates the Comfort Promise to minimize procedural pain whenever possible, with attention to social, economic, and cultural diversity. This is an MNA contract position.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Current Minnesota RN licensure.
- Current BLS certification.
- One year of emergency department nursing experience.
- Current Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification, or obtain it during orientation.
- Current Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certification, or obtain it during orientation.
- Department-specific required qualifications must be obtained within six months of employment; additional certifications may be required based on the unit.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and provide family-centered nursing care to infants, children, and adolescents using the nursing process.
- Perform independent nursing functions and delegated medical functions in collaboration with other health team members.
- Provide primary nursing care to patients in the Emergency Department Mental Health spaces, including children and adolescents with mental, behavioral, or emotional challenges requiring acute stabilization.
Benefits
- Medical benefits may be available.
- Dental benefits may be available.
- Vision benefits may be available.
- Retirement benefits may be available.
- Other fringe benefits may be available.
- Shift differentials or premium pay may be available for positions requiring night, weekend, or on-call work.
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