Registered Nurse - Full Time - 2nd Shift (Year-Round)

Interlochen Center for the Arts is seeking a compassionate and collaborative Registered Nurse to join our Health Services team in a truly unique residential arts environment. This full-time, year-round second shift position (3:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m.) offers the opportunity to care for creative, highly motivated students from around the world while maintaining a consistent schedule with no on-call responsibilities and most major holidays off during academic breaks. Nurses at Interlochen support boarding high school students during the academic year and camp students during the summer, providing care for everything from everyday illnesses and injuries to chronic conditions and urgent medical needs. Working alongside a close-knit team of providers, nurses, and health assistants, this role blends meaningful patient care with the energy and purpose of an arts-centered community where relationships matter and every day looks a little different.

Essential Duties:

• Work with a team consisting of Healthcare Providers, Nurses, Health Assistants, and administrative staff to care for students.

• Administer medications to students.

• Evaluate students who present to Health Services.

• Assess patients and make sound Nursing judgments within your scope of practice.

• Communicate effectively with students/parents and other stakeholders both on and off campus.

• Document visits of students to the Health Center. Learn and master the electronic EMR system and document appropriately.

• Respond to on-campus urgent and emergent situations.

• Understand and abide by HIPAA & FERPA Regulations.

• Work as a team player. This includes but is not limited to clerical duties, obtaining meals for patients, cleaning a patient's room, changing linens, etc.

• Perform assessments, make decisions about dispensing OTC medications per protocol, consult with providers as needed, draw labs (training provided), and perform other duties as required to serve the population.

• Monitor patients who are admitted to the Health Services for observation and overnight care.

• Provide Accurate nursing judgments.

• Identify when a patient requires an advanced level of treatment. ie.. Nurse Practitioner, Urgent Care, or Emergency Department.

• Demonstrate respect for cultural, ethnic, spiritual, and linguistic diversity and values, including differences in personal goals, lifestyle choices, and varying family backgrounds and histories.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Work Environment:

Work is performed primarily in a standard medical office environment with extensive internal and external stakeholder contact.

• Graduate of an accredited nursing school required.
• Current Licensed Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of Michigan required.
• Current BLS Certification from the American Heart Association required.
• Previous work experience in a school, residential, pediatric, adolescent, camp, or community health setting preferred but not required.
• Minimum of two years of clinical nursing experience preferred.
• Pediatric and adolescent assessment skills preferred.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative healthcare team.
• Strong clinical judgment and ability to make sound independent decisions within scope of practice.
• Ability to follow and execute specific verbal and written instructions, policies, and medical orders.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to build and maintain positive, professional relationships with students, families, faculty, staff, and external healthcare partners.
• Commitment to providing compassionate, student-centered care in a dynamic residential arts environment.

From: Interlochen Center for the Arts