Nursing Director III

Essentia Health

Duluth, Minnesota

Eligibility: RNMed surgTelemetryOncology
Shift: Days
Hours a week: 40 hrs a week

Posted Jul 17

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Schedule and commitments

Days, 40 hours

Shift: Days
A week: 40 hours
Term: Permanent

The work and the unit

Unit: Med-Surg
Specialty: Med surg · Telemetry · Oncology
Setting: Hospital

The team behind this role

Preceptors and orientation

1:1 coaching guidance through first year from hire; transition-to-practice support and mentorship in residency

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Employer scheduling

New-grad Duluth typically 0.7–0.8 FTE Day/Night (some 12-hr or D/E); Fosston LTC 12-hr nights, every third weekend + holidays; Graceville 72 hrs/pay period every third weekend rotating 8 or 12 hr

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Pay and benefits

Against the board: Top of Minnesota Med-Surg payMinnesota Med-Surg postings that state pay run $46/hr to $57/hr, the middle half $46/hr to $54/hr, across 74 postings.

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401(k) plan with employer contributions
Professional development training
Tuition reimbursement
Educational programs
Flexible scheduling
Generous time off
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What's around it?

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Living costs about 11% below the US average

Median rent: $1,087/mo
Household income: $68,807/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

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Living in Duluth

Duluth sits on Lake Superior as a mid-sized port of roughly 82,000–87,000—the Zenith City, billed as America's Best Outdoor City and Minnesota's Craft Beer Capital. Life orients to the seven-mile Lakewalk, Canal Park's Aerial Lift Bridge, Spirit Mountain, the Munger Trail, Hartley Nature Center, Park Point, and Hawk Ridge. Locals steer newcomers to West Duluth (Denfeld and Spirit Valley)—flat, quiet, among the safest—plus Lakeside-Lester Park and the UMD area; Congdon and the hillsides are steeper classic Duluth, with cheaper homes 10 minutes away in Superior, Wisconsin. Housing sits well below national medians but is extremely competitive. Commutes average about 15 minutes in a car-dependent city (Walk Score 36); winters are long, snowy, and hard on driving. Eat in Canal Park and the Lincoln Park Craft District: Duluth Grill, Northern Waters Smokehaus, Fitger's Brewhouse, At Sara's Table. Clinics and hospitals are called pristine and there is a medical school, yet wages feel low, poverty and homelessness are visible, and the city sits two hours from the Twin Cities.

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About this role

Step into nursing leadership at northern Minnesota's largest hospital. Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center is a 344-bed Level I Adult and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center in downtown Duluth. As a Nursing Director, you'll oversee patient care and nursing professional practice across assigned units, partnering with the Market Chief Nursing Officer to drive nursing growth, strengthen clinical practice, and help move the journey toward Magnet designation forward.

Lead nursing operations across the medical-surgical service group, own staffing, scheduling, resource allocation, and nursing budget, build and develop leaders and front-line staff, drive process improvement, and advance clinical excellence in support of Magnet journey.

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You would be joining Essentia Health in Duluth, where a new hospital looks out over Lake Superior and the system anchors care across Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin with about 15,000 employees, 14 hospitals, and roughly 70 clinic and outpatient…

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On your path

Med surg is open from year one. A broad first base while you learn which path pulls harder.

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