RN, Registered Nurse | Orthopedic Clinic

Gundersen Health System • La Crosse, WI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Emplify Health by Gundersen is seeking a full-time Registered Nurse (RN) to join our Orthopedic Clinic, supporting the Trauma Team subspecialty. This day shift role offers variety, collaboration, and the opportunity to work closely with a highly experienced team in a fast-paced outpatient setting. Emplify Health, a partnership of Bellin Health and Gundersen Health System, is a leading not-for-profit, patient-centered healthcare network based in Green Bay and La Crosse, Wisconsin. With 11 hospitals and over 100 clinics, we serve 67 cities across Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning, and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future. Gundersen Health System offers a proud, local history spanning more than 100 years. Our personalized patient care model is only the beginning of what you will experience as we foster population health transformation and innovation to serve our communities and you. We've made it a priority to enrich the lives of our employees as they find a career they love. Using each employee’s unique talents and passions, Gundersen is committed to delivering exceptional patient and family-centered care to the communities we serve. You can be part of an exciting, highly adaptable and mission-driven organization with a work environment that supports you personally and professionally and a work culture where you are valued and appreciated offering an employee-first culture, work-life balance, and career advancement & growth opportunities. This culture allows our organization to attract elite talent, like yourself! Inside our walls and our neighborhoods, we deliver world-class medical care and the right amount of love. We call it LOVE + MEDICINE and it’s more than our practice. It is who we are. Gundersen Health System, based in La Crosse, WI, is the leading provider of primary and specialized care in western Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa; serving more than 500,000 residents throughout 22 counties. Our physician-led, not-for-profit healthcare system includes a 325-bed teaching hospital, tertiary referral center, and Level II Trauma Center; community clinics; 6 affiliate critical access hospitals; nursing homes; behavioral health services; vision centers; pharmacies; and air and ground ambulance services. Together, we inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning, and innovating. We deliver Love + Medicine every day to change lives in our communities and enrich the lives of our employees.

Requirements

• Associate Degree in Nursing (required)
• Active RN license (or eligibility) in the state of Wisconsin upon hire
• Minimum of 1 year of RN experience (strongly preferred)
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Flexibility and a strong work ethic

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care in a busy orthopedic clinic, with a focus on trauma patients
• Perform phone triage and patient education
• Manage EPIC in-basket and MyChart patient messages
• Assist with pre-operative and post-operative appointments
• Perform clinical procedures such as wound care and suture removal
• Collaborate with a dedicated team of 3 surgeons, 6 PAs, and experienced RNs and MAs
• Cross-cover additional orthopedic subspecialties, including hand, pediatrics, shoulder, and total joint teams

Benefits

• Starting pay of $31.98/hour + additional compensation for experience
• Career growth opportunities through our Career Development Center and Tuition Investment Program
• Top-rated retirement plan and comprehensive healthcare benefits
• A supportive, experienced team with strong tenure and engagement
• Empowerment to shape your work environment, encouragement to improve processes and create efficiencies, and support when seeking opportunities for growth
• Culture that encourages self-care and provides you with opportunities to be your best self at work and at home
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages, as applicable, ensuring your comfort and well-being as a valuable team member
• Support for your career growth through Professional Development Opportunities, our Tuition Investment Program, Career Development Center, and online continuing education courses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree