Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare provides specialized health care for people who have short-term or long-term disabilities that began during childhood. We help children, adults and their families improve their health, achieve greater well-being, and enjoy life.

Make a difference—in your life and in the world—with a rewarding career at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare.

Gillette has been a Twin Cities Top Workplace six years in a row and is a National Top Workplace. We offer competitive pay, a strong benefits package and flexible schedules. Plus we give employees something that sets us apart: a chance to take part in our mission. Come to work for Gillette, and you’ll improve the lives of countless children and adults who have disabilities or complex medical conditions.

Each year, we see more patients and add more services. That growth enabled us to increase our workforce by more than 25 percent during the past five years. As we continue expanding, you’ll have many chances to learn new skills and advance your career. You’ll also collaborate with teams of caring professionals who are committed to making the world a better place.

This position exists to administer family-centered nursing care to patients, advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention, and/or provide skilled assistance in navigation of the health care system as appropriate to the developmental, cultural, emotional,  and medical, surgical, or rehabilitative needs of the patient and their families.  Nurse’s duties and title are determined by their work setting or patient population served.   The Level III RN oversees and directs patient care activities and unit personnel and provides leadership through multidisciplinary teamwork.
   
• Nurses are accountable for keeping pace with expanding evidence and knowledge, by knowing how to access, assess, and apply the information and knowledge he/she needs in order to practice.
• Nurses are accountable to integrate all contributions to patient care and serve as strategists and managers of the patient’s journey – not only their responsibilities, but also the interdisciplinary hand-offs throughout the patient care process.
• Nurses record patients’ medical histories and symptoms, help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operate medical or information technology, administer treatment and mediations, and help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation. They may teach patients and their families how to manage their illnesses or injuries by educating on warning signs and symptoms of concern; addressing home care needs of diet, nutrition, mobility, and exercise as well as self-administration of medication; and discussing emergency care management as appropriate.

Gillette CARES

Commitment – Demonstrate a commitment to Gillette’s Mission, Vision, and Principles of Care. Understand how your work is aligned to the company and department objectives and take ownership of success.
Accountability – Hold self and others accountable for actions, commitments, results and resource management. Maintains care of the work environment.
Respect – Foster a welcoming environment characterized by a high level of acceptance, cooperation, and mutual respect of individual differences. Build professional relationships with patients, families, coworkers, and others. Follow Gillette’s guidelines and Code of Conduct for resolving issues.
Excellence – Adopt practices to deliver superior clinical and non-clinical outcomes, enhance processes, and ensure excellence in daily work. Embrace change and demonstrate willingness to find and learn ways to accomplish the work.
Service – Demonstrate a passion to care for patients, families, coworkers, and others by anticipating and meeting needs.

Core Competency

Patient Care –– Utilizes leadership principles in mobilizing the patient care team to achieve positive patient outcomes. 
•    Demonstrates thorough assessments.
•    Creates individualized plans of care that are evidence-based.
•    Successfully implements interventions.
•    Prioritizes based on patient’s immediate condition or anticipated needs.
•    Evaluates based on desired outcomes.
•    Communicates real time patient-related nursing data and information to enhance active and informed decision making by patients, families, nurse colleagues, and other healthcare providers.
•    Monitors and holds staff and providers accountable for timely and accurate documentation of patient care.
•    Demonstrates and assists interdisciplinary team with adjustment in interactions, the delivery of care, and/or clinical techniques.
•    Uses systems thinking to influence care models around episodes of care using integration, problem solving, and coordination among interdisciplinary teams.
Family centered care - Supervises and leads nursing care and health education reflecting specific patient, family, cultural and community needs.
•    Identifies the learning needs of the population served.  Identifies and adapts to the role of cultural, social, and behavioral factors in determining the delivery of patient care.
•    Implements an effective teaching plan.
•    Employs strategies to promote health in a safe environment.
•    Seeks opportunity to evaluate effectiveness of health education as culturally and developmentally appropriate.
Autonomous Practice – Exercises independent judgment that influences care and demonstrates understanding of potential clinical implications.
•    Supervises, delegates, and provides care based on the abilities and limitations of care personnel and patient acuity.
•    Generates, shares, and accepts new ideas and incorporates into own daily work.
•    Seeks information and generates optional solutions to perceived problems through interactive problem solving with individuals.
•    Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and presents information in contextual formats that clarifies significance of the data relative to patient care.
•    Assumes, as a clinical expert, a leadership role with influencing and monitoring the standards of patient care.
•    Integrates high ethical standards and core values into everyday work activity.
•    Utilizes leadership, team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills to build partnerships.
Procedures and Policies –Identifies, interprets, and monitors the implementation of organizational policies and procedures according to regulations, professional and community standards.
•    Protects the confidentiality of personal health information.
Active Engagement – Actively represents the department in committees, task forces, unit activities or other work groups and disseminates information and decisions to colleagues and peers.  This includes attending a minimum of 75% of department staff meetings.
•    Leads, chairs, or co-chairs minimum of one engagement activity.
•    Ensures accountability through the use of dashboards and promote transparency through reporting of near misses and medical errors.
•    Lead or facilitate participation in department staff meetings.
•    Demonstrates meaningful contributions to the productivity of the professional environment of the department and the Nursing Collaborative Governance model.
•     Demonstrates an understanding of the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity and the impact of those forces on the professional healthcare environment.
•    Collaborates with manager to ensure resource allocations, development, and implementation of strategies reflect the clinical and programmatic operation needs of the unit.
•    Provides examples indicating that the Engaged Professional Practice model is fully enculturated in their professional practice.  Leads staff to use the model as their guide in decision making.

Required: 
• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license through the MN Board of Nursing
• Documentation of completion of a professional nursing program (RN program) 
• The nurse must, at a minimum, have a current Nursing Specialty Certification (or obtain within 12 months of start date in position) and a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or other healthcare related field.
• Demonstrated leadership experience
• Current certification in CPR-BLS for Health Care Providers by the American Heart Association (exception: Telehealth RNs).  
• Current PALS certification is required of RN’s who work in the PICU, nurses who are cross-trained in the PICU, and Perianesthesia nurses providing direct patient care.
• Must be interested in working with people with short term or long term disabilities that begin in childhood.
• Excellent customer service skills
• Physically able to work hours required and physically able to transport patients.

Strongly Preferred:     
• A minimum of 3 years’ nursing experience
• Master degree in Nursing or other healthcare related field

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.