Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) [Новость добавлена - 28.03.2010]

Seeking

Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota in Minneapolis/St. Paul is seeking a full-time APRN to join the Pain & Palliative Care Program.

The Pain & Palliative Care Program (Medical Director Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD Stefan.friedrichsdorf@childrensmn.org, associate medical director Kaci Osenga, MD kaci.osenga@childrensmn.org) is an exciting and ambitious program:

This specialty program provides holistic, interdisciplinary care for children and teens with life-limiting or terminal diseases and their families and aims to control acute and chronic/complex pain in all in- and outpatients at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, and throughout the surrounding community. Pain & Palliative Care staff work collaboratively with pediatric sub-specialists throughout Children’s Hospitals and Clinics, including Integrative Medicine which provides mind- body interventions such as hypnosis, biofeedback, massage, aromatherapy and much more.

In 2008, the Pain & Palliative Care Program at Children’s of Minnesota was a recipient of the distinguished Circle of Life award (sponsored by American Hospital Association) as well as being designated as one of two pediatric palliative care leadership centers with the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Our Children’s Institute for Pain & Palliative Care provides comprehensive teaching, including the annual Pediatric Pain Master Class.

Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota is the 7th largest pediatric health care organization in the United States with more than 4.300 employees, 332-staffed beds (50% of which are designated as intensive care) and two campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis (3.2 million inhabitants in the metro area).  An independent, not-for-profit health care system, Children’s of Minnesota provides care through more than 14,000 inpatient admissions, 21,000 surgical cases, 11,000 home visits, and more than 90,000 emergency room and 110,000 other outpatient visits every year. 

Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota has been ranked among the top Children’s Hospitals in the USA (U.S. News & World Report), is recognized as a Magnet hospital for nursing excellence (In the top 5% of hospitals nationally, and one of only 22 pediatric hospitals) and among the top ten pediatric hospitals in quality and safety, for the third consecutive year (Leapfrog Group).

The primary responsibility for our new colleague is to provide holistic care to children with life-threatening diseases and their families. This includes the aggressive management of pain and other distressing symptoms in the inpatient setting utilizing both pharmacological and integrative, non-pharmacological management within the context of an interdisciplinary approach. As the pain service is an integral part of our program this practitioner would also provide care for children with acute, chronic/complex and procedural pain. 

Good communication skills, flexibility and a desire to learn together with the interdisciplinary team are a must.  Knowledge of managing children in pediatric palliative and hospice care and/or acute and chronic pain management would be preferred. However, the successful applicant will undergo a designated training period to gain clinical excellence in all these areas.

The successful candidate will work with an interdisciplinary team, including 6 nurses, 2 APRNs, 3 pediatricians, 4 social workers, 2 psychologists, chaplain, child life specialist, bereavement counselor, 2 research coordinators, and integrative medicine therapists to assure timely assessment and intervention for all children referred to the program.  

Qualifications include: Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist certification or Nurse Practitioner certification required.  Current Minnesota RN license (or eligibility);

Please access the following link for a full description of our program: http://www.childrensmn.org/Services/PainPalliativeCare

For further questions, inquiries, or applications contact the program’s manager Liz Leighton, RN Liz.Leighton@childrensmn.org or medical director at phone 612-813-6450 or Stefan.friedrichsdorf@childrensmn.org We offer competitive compensation and benefits package. For consideration, please visit our web site at www.childrensmn.org to learn more.  EOE/Smoke-Free Environment.

Please address your CV, cover letter, and no more than 3 letters of recommendations to:

Information about the metro area of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and

St. Paul (3.2 million inhabitants) and the state of Minnesota is available on the web

at: http://www.exploreminnesota.com and http://www.minneapolis.org/ and