Registered Nurse – Emergency Department - RN
Our Nursing Care Model combines Relationship-Based Care with an evidence-based approach. Mayo Clinic is an academic medical center.
- Shift and hours
- 12-hour rotating30 hours a week
- Unit and setting
- Emergency Department · Hospital Registered Nurse - Emergency Department - RN
- License
- RN license Successful sponsorship will require state licensure and completion of the VisaScreen or equivalent certification.state licensure
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- New grads
- Welcomed, residency program
- License
- state licensure Successful sponsorship will require state licensure and completion of the VisaScreen or equivalent certification.
- Certification
- VisaScreen or equivalent certification
Your six-month RN application plan
Start about six months before graduation. Some programs open earlier; use each employer’s application dates.
6 months before
Shortlist units
Check application windows. Gather clinical experience, references and your expected graduation date.
Find residencies4–6 months before
Apply as windows open
Apply before graduation when the program allows it. Keep the cohort date and license deadline with each application.
Explore new grad jobs2–3 months before
Meet the unit manager
Ask about overtime, a shadow shift, preceptor continuity and the schedule after orientation.
Prepare your questionsAround graduation
Confirm your start
Coordinate NCLEX, the required license and your start date. Get relocation and repayment terms in writing.
Plan your license
Why start this early?
Advocate describes a 6–9 month application runway for several regional RN programs. These milestones are a planning guide, not deadlines for every employer. See program calendars.
What it pays
- Against similar roles
- In range for Minnesota staff rolesMinnesota staff postings that state pay run $27/hr to $60/hr, the middle half $34/hr to $57/hr, across 1,460 postings.
Benefits
- Benefitsmultiple medical plan optionsMedical: Multiple plan options.
- BenefitsDelta Dental or reimbursement accountDental: Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
- Benefitsvision plan with national networkVision: Affordable plan with national network.
- BenefitsHSA and FSAsPre-Tax Savings: HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
- Benefitsretirement packageRetirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.
- Medical: Multiple plan options.
More benefits (5)
- Dental: Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
- Vision: Affordable plan with national network.
- Pre-Tax Savings: HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
- Retirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.
- Pre-Tax Savings (HSA/FSA)
The role and schedule
- Precepting
- You would precept other nurses provides leadership through activities such as preceptor role, informal leadership roles, and quality improvement efforts.
- Care model
- Relationship-Based Care with an evidence-based approach Our Nursing Care Model combines Relationship-Based Care with an evidence-based approach.
- Day to day
- coordination of nursing care, direct patient care, patient/family education, and transitions of care is accountable for the coordination of nursing care, including direct patient care, patient/family education and transitions of care.
- Day to day
- supporting professional nursing practice across care settings and continuum of care supports professional nursing practice across practice settings and across the continuum of care to meet the needs of the patient and family.
- Care model
- Mayo Nursing Care Model
- Day to day
- delegating patient care based on skill level, experience, patient acuity, fiscal accountability, and resources delegates patient care according to skill level, experience, patient acuity, fiscal accountability, and adequacy of resources.
- Day to day
- mentoring, teaching, and participating on committees or projects possesses excellent communication skills; is skillful in mentoring and teaching; and may participate on committees or projects.
- Hours stated
- 12-hour rotating day/night shifts; holiday rotation
- Details
- eligible for TN sponsorship This role is eligible for TN sponsorship.
- Details
- Nurse Residency Program for new graduates with under 12 months experience
- Details
- extensive orientation program for all new nurses All nurses new to Mayo Clinic, regardless of experience, will receive an extensive orientation program.
Support on this unit
The posting does not state the assignment size, and nothing published names it for this unit.
- Orientation
- Residency program
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What preceptor time and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
Ask Mira
Your fit
On your path
Emergency is open from year one. Fellowships take new grads. Watch their application dates.
Original listing
Posted on Mayo Clinic’s careers page.
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At Mayo Clinic, you will become a vital member of a dynamic team at one of the world's most exceptional health care institutions. Our Nursing Care Model combines Relationship-Based Care with an evidence-based approach. This allows for a stronger connection between patient and caregiver, and a more individualized, appropriate type of care. You will also discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism and mutual respect, and—most importantly—a life-changing career.
The registered nurse (RN)
- is accountable for the coordination of nursing care, including direct patient care, patient/family education and transitions of care.
- supports professional nursing practice across practice settings and across the continuum of care to meet the needs of the patient and family.
- will function within the Mayo Nursing Care Model, which includes accountability for planning, implementing, evaluating and communicating all phases of nursing care for assigned patients. The ANA Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice provide a basis for the practice of the RN.
- provides leadership through activities such as preceptor role, informal leadership roles, and quality improvement efforts.
- delegates patient care according to skill level, experience, patient acuity, fiscal accountability, and adequacy of resources.
- possesses excellent communication skills; is skillful in mentoring and teaching; and may participate on committees or projects.
This role is eligible for TN sponsorship. Successful sponsorship will require state licensure and completion of the VisaScreen or equivalent certification.
All newly graduated Registered Nurses with less than 12 months of practice experience, hired into a scheduled FTE Registered Nurse position are automatically enrolled in the Nurse Residency Program. A separate application or enrollment process is not required. All nurses new to Mayo Clinic, regardless of experience, will receive an extensive orientation program.
What's around it?
Albert Lea, MNFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about the same as the US average
- Median rent
- $857/mo
- Household income
- $64,603/yr, all local households, not nurse pay