RN Med/Surg Float Pool (will consider new grads)
Edina, Minnesota
Posted Aug 13 · New grads welcomed
- Shift
- 8-hour nights
- Hours a week
- 28
- Unit
- Med-Surg
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 8-hour nights · 28 hours
- Weekends
- Every other weekend
- Term
- Permanent
- On the floor
- Floating required
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
More role details
- Experience
- New graduates
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- Shift differential
- +$2/hr
The median for nursing in Minnesota is $38/hr, across 566 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
Responsibilities/Job Description
Elevate Your Nursing Career – Join Our High-Energy Med/Surg Float Pool Team at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, MN!
Are you a passionate, flexible, and driven RN looking for variety, challenge, and growth? At Fairview Southdale Hospital, we’re seeking a skilled and compassionate Registered Nurse to join our dynamic Medical-Surgical Float Pool — an exciting opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge, build strong interdisciplinary connections, and truly make a difference across multiple units.
Located in Edina, Minnesota, Fairview Southdale Hospital is a trusted community hospital serving the southwest Twin Cities metro area. With more than 40 specialty services, we combine state-of-the-art technology, patient-centered care, and collaborative teamwork to deliver excellence every day.
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As a Med/Surg Float Pool RN, you'll be a key player in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment, delivering care across a variety of units, including Orthopedics, Medical/Telemetry, Observation, Surgical, and Oncology. Each shift brings a new opportunity to broaden your clinical expertise, care for diverse patient populations, and develop invaluable experience across multiple specialties. If you thrive on variety, love learning, and enjoy being a vital part of a mission-driven healthcare team, this is the role for you.
Schedule
This position is scheduled for 56 hours per two-week pay period, 8-hour night shifts (11pm– 7:30am), with every other weekend required (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). As an added bonus, Float Pool RNs receive an additional $2.00 per hour.
What you’ll gain: a supportive, team-oriented culture; endless learning opportunities across high-acuity units; the ability to grow professionally and expand your clinical impact; and the chance to work with a leading healthcare organization that values compassion, innovation, and excellence.
The Registered Nurse is responsible for the assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of nursing care for all assigned patient population(s). The RN is responsible for performing these responsibilities in accordance with all policy, procedures, professional practice guidelines and the MN Nurse Practice Act. The RN coordinates care with members of the health care team and delegates responsibilities to others as appropriate.
Responsibilities
Assesses patient needs and identifies expected nursing outcomes. Collaborates with patient, family and other health team members to develop a nursing plan as part of an integrated, comprehensive plan of care Develops an individualized plan based on age, social and cultural considerations, condition and other relevant needs. Evaluates care and patient response to interventions and expected outcomes.
Collaborates and communicates effectively and respectfully with the patient, family and members of the health care team within and across care settings to promote partnership-based health care Demonstrates the ability to advance care by utilizing standards, guidelines, care pathways and continuous improvement to enhance patient outcomes. Promotes a culture of evidence based practice (EBP)
Required Qualifications
MN Registered Nurse (RN) License Basic Life Support (American Heart Assoc or Red Cross)
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelors Degree in Nursing 1 year experience
Qualifications
$44.68- $74.32 Hourly
Overview
M Health Fairview is searching for a hardworking RN who is looking fro an exciting career in our Med/Surg Float Pool located at our Edina, Minnesota campus!
Fairview Southdale Hospital offers care to people living and working in the southwest Twin Cities metro area. With more than 40 specialty services, we combine talents to balance innovative technologies and treatments with the art of medicine. Working together, we respectfully address the comprehensive needs of our patients and their families.
About this Unit
Are you seeking the opportunity to gain experience on multiple units? If so, then our Float Pool team is right for you! As a Medical Surgical Float Pool RN you will float to the Orthopedic, Medical/tele unit, Observation, Surgical and Oncology unit.
This position is XX hours every two weeks on the XXX Shift, XX hour shifts (AM-PM) with every XXX weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). We offer generous benefits including medical, dental, time off and more. Check out additional benefits information here:www.fairview.org/benefits/TCMNARN
The RN role offers an additional $2.00/hour for being in the Float Pool.
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Requirements
- MN Registered Nurse (RN) License
- Basic Life Support (American Heart Assoc or Red Cross)
- Preferred Qualifications: Bachelors Degree in Nursing
- Preferred Qualifications: 1 year experience
- $44.68- $74.32 Hourly
Place
- City
- Edina, Minnesota
- Rent against this pay
- 25% of monthly gross
- Local household income
- $128,767/yr
- State price level
- 1% below the national average
$1,844 median rent against $7,280 a month at $60/hr for 28 hours a week, before tax.
all local households, not nurse pay
Minnesota index 98.6, where 100 is the national average.
Edina is an established, affluent suburb just southwest of Minneapolis, known for tree-lined residential streets and the boutique dining district at 50th and France. Southdale Center anchors local retail. For RNs seeking a quiet, family-friendly community minutes from major Twin Cities hospital systems, Edina offers suburban comfort with easy metro access.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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You are weighing Fairview Health Services in Burnsville, Minnesota—about 15 miles south of downtown Minneapolis. Plenty of nurses treat this stretch as a Twin Cities base: typical drives into Minneapolis or St. Paul run 20–30 minutes, and the average commute…
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Med surg is open from year one. A broad first base while you learn which path pulls harder.
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