Registered Nurse

The Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch is unlike any place you have worked! We are a place of hope where troubled kids and their families find professional care, compassionate expertise, and new possibilities. In short, we help the kids no one else can—we help them find and become who they are.

We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Mental Health Nurse at our Minot campus! This is a full-time position, 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday.

Schedule

We offer a very flexible schedule with week day hours which requires working one shift per week until 9pm and on-call rotations during the week and weekends.

What You Will Do

As a Ranch Nurse, you will draw on your skills to connect with, support, and educate children and adolescents, ages 10-18; and serve as a critical team member in our adolescent psychiatric residential facility. You will collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to assess patient progress and modify treatment programs accordingly. This is a challenging environment where continual learning and autonomy is expected as you work to make a difference in the life of a child.

Purpose

• Provide care to youth and their families in a respectful, caring, empowering, holistic, trauma informed and culturally sensitive manner.
• Demonstrate a commitment to agency mission, vision, and shared values
• Display respect for all voices, all cultures and all perspectives
• Help to establish team collaborative decisions to promote youth independence and success
• Promoting an environment that supports accomplishments and self-esteem, as well as empowerment and accountability
• Work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team to provide a person-centered plan of care and sense of well-being, while advocating for the youth and family's best interest

Caring

• Initiating nursing presence and role-modeling by attending youth focused meetings. Being dependable and following through with tasks.
• Initiate nursing presence and role-modeling by attending youth-focused meetings, being dependable, and following through with tasks
• Make sure client’s physical/mental health needs are met by ensuring health assessments, routine health care, nursing procedures and face to face evaluations are completed within accredited time frames and appropriate referrals are made when needed.
• Demonstrates the ability to assist providers while seeing clients. Observe and carry out orders as indicated and perform appropriate interventions as ordered.