After Hours RN (Senior Living), Part Time MN

AFTER004887 Description The RN-After Hours is primarily responsible for gathering clinical information over the phone and directing healthcare services. The RN-After Hours uses Lifespark’s Clinical Guidelines as well as internal process and/or procedure to meet the needs of residents and staff within their communities. The RN-After Hours must possess and use good clinical judgement, careful listening, critical thinking, and escalate to appropriate personnel as needed. Position: After Hours RN for Senior Living Wage Range: $36 - $40/hour, depending on experience Service Area: Remote (1-2 days in office at the of employment for General Orientation at our Lifespark Corporate Office, St. Louis Park 55416) Schedule: This position is for overnight, 11pm-8am. Hours: 0.36 part-time with option to pick up. Shift is required to work every other weekend and every other holiday Week 1: Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Week 2: Thursday Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently. Lifespark Benefits Include: • Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable} • Paid Time Off – Vacation Time • Mileage reimbursement • Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires • Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance • Life Insurances • 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees • Referral bonuses • Career path to other positions within our growing company! Position Functions & Responsibilities: • Gather pertinent clinical information problem based on conversation with community caregiver • Uses clinical judgment, knowledge and experience to direct conversation and guide decision-making to give self-care advice, refer resident to provider, make an appointment, instruct resident contact emergency assistance, or dispatch appropriate community resource. • Provides resident care as defined in the State Nurse Practice Act. • Caregiver in meeting nursing and related needs. • Provides health care instructions as appropriate per assessment and plan of care. • Provides education when appropriate. • Reassures the rapid and effective transmission of resident data between all relevant parties. • Promotes evidence-based practice. • Establishes and maintains strong collaborative arrangements with other health care professionals. • Participates in admission avoidance activities dispatching community resources as needed to prevent rehospitalizations. • Complete onboarding, orientation and annual mandatory training. • Ensure positive/professional communication on team. • Customer service resolution; escalate concerns. • Prepares clinical notes and updates primary provider when necessary. • Communicates with provider regarding the resident needs and reports any changes in the resident condition; obtains/receives orders as required. • Communicates with community health related persons to coordinate the care plan. • Extremely skilled at listening and interpreting subtle indications such as tone of voice, hesitations or incomplete responses. • Inspires others and encourage them to seek advice and solutions to problems. • Challenges others to take an active part in developing knowledge, ideas and work practice. • Challenges tradition and accepts joint responsibility for any arising problems and tensions and uses these to inform future practice. • Makes effective use of appropriate learning opportunities for themselves and others and applies learning to practice. • Honors Resident Confidentiality, Rights, Privacy, and Reporting Maltreatment Expectations. • Understands and Accepts Residents’ Diagnosis. • Understands and accepts emotional needs of resident. • Accepts unique resident symptoms and behaviors. • Understanding of Confidentiality & Data Protection Act. • Adheres to Emergency Procedure and Response Expectations. • Identifies safety issues and notifies appropriate community resource. • Demonstrates, and can educate on proper procedures: handling, lifting, transfers. • Escalates employee work injury per protocol. • Overview of Process, Types of Reports and Forms • Follow-up Required – Escalating Event • Can manage safety concerns for residents and clinicians, escalating when appropriate Qualifications: Education • Degree in Nursing from an accredited program. • Must be a Registered Nurse • Bachelor’s degree preferred. • Current licensure to practice discipline in the state of Minnesota and Wisconsin, or willingness to obtain upon hire within 30 days of hire. Experience • Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in Senior Living, and/or home and community based senior services. • Thompson Adult Telephone Triage Protocol experience (highly preferred). Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired. It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Apply tot his job