RN - Registered Nurse (40 Hours Weekly) - Orthopedic & Podiatry Clinics

Essentia Health

Detroit Lakes, MN Posted 5/13/2025 Full Time

Job Description:

Seeking a Registered Nurse to serve in a non-rooming role for Essentia Health's orthopedic & podiatry practices at St. Mary's Clinic in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. This RN works 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. No weekend, holiday, or on-call rotations are required. This nurse is responsible for patient education (including pre-operative and post-operative education), clinical support for procedures, triage of MyHealth and phone calls, and various other tasks and responsibilities.

Education Qualifications:

  • BSN or ADN degree from an accredited school or college of nursing.

About Essentia Health:

We are a top-rated employer offering work-life balance, long term career stability, opportunities for growth, and work you can be passionate about! Our mission guides us every day: We are called to make a healthy difference in people’s lives. This calling resonates deeply for our caregivers and our colleagues working behind the scenes, who all bring high-quality, compassionate care to the patients we are privileged to serve. We are like nowhere else: https://vimeo.com/284233541

What You'll Do:

Is a professional practicing in a multi-faceted domain of specialty nursing that focuses on health care of individuals, families, groups, communities and entire populations. Provides care that occurs in primary and specialty care outpatient facilities, non-acute community out -patient settings; during tele health nursing encounters that occur in medical offices or by individual nurses in the home or business. Have authority, accountability and responsibility for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes action consistent with the obligation to promote health and to provide optimal care recognizing that health is a universal right. Interacts with patients in concert with other health professionals, skillfully uses the nursing process to assess primary concerns, identify problems, analyze and integrate subjective and objective data, decide on a plan of action, apply the appropriate intervention and evaluate the outcome. Additional responsibilities include:


· Printing orthopedic and podiatry schedules when they become available.
· Scanning the orthopedic call schedule to the staff scheduling coordinator.
· Checking the schedules for errors & contacting the scheduling coordinator for changes.
· Placing Epic nurse-only hold slots on providers' schedules where needed.
· Blocking providers' schedules for urgent needs such as surgery.
· Triaging the schedules for any patients that need to be rescheduled.
· Ensuring that patients (post-op, fracture care, injections) are scheduled in appropriate time frames.
· Scheduling pre-op appointments for patients that are having urgent surgery.
· Checking Clarity reports for current MME (acute and chronic pain management).
· Checking charts for MMEs for all podiatry and orthopedic patients.
· Scheduling urgent orthopedic and podiatry appointments.
· Checking providers' in-baskets when they are out for several days.
· Preparing all incoming workers' compensation and insurance paperwork, delivering it to the provider, and submitting it upon completion.
· Ordering grafts as needed and signing off on graft/tissue log sheets weekly.
· Updating and validating information in the tissue logbook every 2-3 months.
· Reviewing protocols yearly and updating them as needed.

Employees scheduled 20+ hours weekly enjoy these benefits:
· Health Insurance and HSA or FSA accounts

· Dental and Vision insurances

· Supplemental insurances- critical illness, accident, & hospital indemnity

· Paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and basic life insurance

· Supplemental Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance

· Tuition Reimbursement

· PTO accrual and 7 paid holidays per year

· Paid parental leave after one year (24+ hours weekly required)

· Adoption assistance after one year (24+ hours weekly required)

· Bereavement & Jury Duty (all regularly scheduled employees)

All employees, including casual, enjoy these benefits:

· Take Charge (employee wellness program)

· Guidance Resources (free confidential counseling)

· Employee discount program

· 401(k) retirement account (traditional & Roth)

· 401(k) matching & discretionary contributions (subject to service requirements)

Licensure/Certification Qualifications:

  • Current RN license with the Minnesota State Board of Nursing.
  • Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification within 3 months of hire.
  • Med/Surg and OR experience is preferred.
  • EMR experience with Epic is preferred.
Employee Benefits at Essentia Health: At Essentia Health, we’re committed to supporting your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, along with supplemental options to fit your needs. We offer a 401(k) plan with employer contributions to help you plan for the future, and we invest in your professional development through training, tuition reimbursement, and educational programs. To help you thrive both at work and at home, we provide flexible scheduling, generous time off, and wellness resources focused on your physical, mental, and emotional health. Please note that benefit eligibility may vary. For full details, refer to your benefit summary or contact our HR Service Center at .
Job Location:St Marys - Detroit Lakes Clinic
Shift Rotation:Day Rotation (United States of America)
Shift Start/End:8:00 am/4:30 pm
Hours Per Pay Period:80
Compensation Range:$33.57 - $50.36 / hour
FTE:1
Weekends:No
JOB LOCATION:
Detroit Lakes, MN 56501

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