Allina Health

Clinical Educator

• Conduct nutritional assessments of patients with diabetes
• Develop nutrition plans
• Educate patients, families, staff and other caregivers about nutrition in diabetes management
• Collaborate with physicians to identify nutritional and/or diabetes management needs and plan care
• Utilize approved protocols for medication management when appropriate
• Provide consultation and mentoring related to diabetes care to staff in complex cases and unfamiliar clinical problems
• Partner and collaborate with the multidisciplinary team
• Plan and document discharge needs for patients and families
• Conduct patient and family education and evaluate responses
• Document assessments, plans, interventions, education, outcomes, nutritional goals and data in the medical record
• Document to ensure accurate coding and billing for services
• Maintain documentation tools, educational literature and resources
• Perform other duties as assigned

Clinical Educator – Diabetes Dietetic

Nurse Practitioner

• Provides clinical care for patients
• Completes comprehensive patient assessments
• Determines diagnosis and treatment of illness
• Orders and interprets medical diagnostics in tandem with attending physician
• Prescribes medications, treatments, therapy and medical equipment
• Conducts patient education for chronic illness or wellness care
• Refers patients for specialty care when determined
• Consults with physicians when needs fall outside Nurse Practitioner scope or when diagnosis or treatment plan is unclear
• Promotes communication within the health care team and interdisciplinary staff
• Acts as a resource to team members
• Works with the primary care team for program development
• Acts as liaison with outside agencies as needed
• Collaborates with hospital staff by consulting and rounding on patients when designated by the specialty
• Serves as educator, case manager and consultant to staff and multidisciplinary health care teams
• Performs other duties as assigned

Neurosurgery Nurse Practitioner

Clinician

• Diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential health problems
• Establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families
• Plan, coordinate and evaluate patient care needs
• Participate in and support program development, nursing research, staff development and quality initiatives
• Coordinate care along a defined care pathway when applicable
• Assess patient and family needs and establish, supervise and modify plans of care
• Maintain education and competencies for high-quality patient care
• Incorporate evidence-based nursing practice and applicable statutes, rules and regulations
• Establish realistic, measurable and age- and culturally appropriate patient outcomes collaboratively with patients and families
• Coordinate, collaborate and delegate to ensure safe, effective care
• Serve as Charge Nurse when assigned, coordinating and directing unit operations
• Serve as Preceptor when assigned, planning learning experiences and validating orientee competence
• Perform other duties as assigned

RN Clinician, Cardiology

Procurement

• Oversee and support Allina Medical Equipment Council subgroups for Surgery and General Medical
• Provide strategic guidance, mentorship, and subject matter expertise to subgroup leaders and members
• Serve as primary partner for equipment service contracting, equipment rentals, equipment placement agreements, and capital-related service agreements
• Support enterprise-level sourcing and contracting functions
• Lead the contract lifecycle process
• Work with clinical and administrative leadership across system sites
• Lead or participate in cross-functional, multi-site decision teams from requirements definition through contract award
• Review historical trend and expense data to identify cost-reduction opportunities
• Investigate options and market dynamics; define sourcing strategies
• Develop requests for proposals, evaluate and analyze bids, prepare negotiation plans, and negotiate contracts
• Document the basis for contract awards and coordinate vendor support for implementation
• Monitor supplier performance and compile site-specific and provider-specific usage and cost analyses
• Summarize and present financial and non-financial factors to guide contracting decisions
• Build relationships with leaders, staff, and vendors to minimize expenditures and ensure quality and service levels
• Deliver financial savings through contract rebids, extensions, conversions, or customizations
• Support conversions, implementations, and product trials
• Coordinate vendor-managed inventories and assist site materials teams with inventory requirements
• Analyze contract requirements and special provisions; work with legal to ensure compliance
• Monitor contract performance and proactively identify changes to mitigate risk
• Perform other duties as assigned

Contract Management Specialist

Technician

• Assist with cardiac stress testing, including treadmill, pharmaceutical, nuclear, and echo stress tests
• Perform electrocardiograms (EKGs)
• Apply Holter monitors and provide patients with usage and care instructions
• Analyze Holter monitor data from 24 hours to 14 days, including superimposed scanning, heart rate variability assessments, and QT interval and pediatric program evaluations, as applicable
• Prepare charts, room patients, collect vital signs, and ensure complete and accurate patient records
• Educate patients about procedures, heart conditions, and the importance of tests
• Ensure patient comfort and safety during tests
• Complete stress-test documentation and billing processes
• Upload and analyze recorded Holter data as appropriate
• Maintain and clean testing equipment and monitors
• Collaborate with physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and other healthcare professionals
• Provide services across multiple facilities as needed
• Perform other duties as assigned

Holter and Stress Test Technician

Assistant

• Attend and participate in Allina Health’s Nursing Assistant Academy
• Complete classroom instruction, hands-on learning, virtual learning, and clinical skill development
• Learn basic nursing skills, including taking vital signs, providing personal care, and mobility assistance
• Complete required coursework, exams, and competencies
• Transition into a permanent Nursing Assistant position at Abbott Northwestern Hospital upon successful completion
• Work in the Abbott Northwestern Hospital Float Pool
• Provide direct hands-on patient care
• Work across a variety of patient care units and populations
• Work straight day or night shifts
• Work a 0.9 FTE schedule of 72 hours per two-week pay period, including every other weekend
• Perform other duties as assigned

Nursing Assistant

Advanced Practice Provider

• Provide clinical care for patients
• Complete comprehensive patient assessments
• Determine diagnosis and treatment of illness
• Order and interpret medical diagnostics in tandem with attending physician
• Prescribe medications, treatments, therapy and medical equipment
• Conduct patient education for chronic illness or wellness care
• Refer patients for specialty care when determined
• Consult with physicians when patient needs exceed scope of practice or diagnosis/treatment plan is unclear
• Perform mostly surgical work with no clinic responsibilities
• Work in the OR, round on patients, and support elective and acute care surgery
• Work across inpatient and outpatient situations independently or as part of a treatment team
• Serve as educator, case manager and consultant to staff and multidisciplinary healthcare teams

Trauma Advanced Practice Provider – PA, NP

Representative

• Review clinical documentation and accurately assess and enter charges for Emergency, Outpatient, and Observation services
• Use medical software to capture all billable charges
• Identify inconsistencies in medical reports and work with leadership and operations staff to improve charge capture and correct errors
• Review, calculate, and enter charges in the electronic medical record (EMR)
• Examine financial reports for accuracy and edits
• Process and complete charge entry
• Monitor and audit charts
• Ensure charges comply with federal regulations
• Partner with coding, finance, providers, and site leadership on provider productivity and dummy code audits
• Identify missing notes and charges and work with providers to complete them
• Identify, analyze, and edit charge capture errors, double charging, errors, and omissions
• Reconcile inpatient and outpatient hospital professional fees to identify missing charges and/or notes
• Manage 3050WQ, Charge Review, Claim Edit, Account, and Follow Up WQs
• Verify insurance eligibility and document information in Epic
• Resolve patient/client problems, direct calls, adjust accounts, and update demographic and insurance information
• Register patients as needed for billing for places of service outside of Allina
• Follow up on billing and quality-of-care issues and refer complaints appropriately
• Obtain referrals and prior authorizations for denied encounters
• Resolve complex accounts requiring expertise and critical thinking
• Identify workflow problems and work with providers and site leadership on education opportunities
• Inform manager about documentation deficits affecting revenue efficiency and accuracy
• Perform other duties as assigned

Charge Capture Representative

Physician

• Provide comprehensive obstetric and gynecologic care
• Review patients' medical histories and synthesize comprehensive clinical information
• Evaluate, interpret, and coordinate information to make patient-care decisions and recommendations
• Provide education, consultation, intervention, and treatment plans to patients and families
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary care team to ensure coordinated, high-quality care
• Practice thoughtfully while considering cultural diversity, individual autonomy, and legal responsibilities
• Provide care in an ambulatory clinic and gynecologic surgical coverage
• Develop individualized treatment plans
• Educate and counsel patients and families about diagnoses, treatment options, and preventive care

Obstetrician and Gynecologist – Clinic Only

• Complete comprehensive patient assessments
• Determine diagnosis and treatment of illness
• Order and interpret medical diagnostics in tandem with attending physician
• Prescribe medications, treatments, therapy and medical equipment
• Conduct patient education for chronic illness management or wellness care
• Perform rounding and operating room work
• Provide inpatient and outpatient care
• Participate in weekend rotation, approximately one weekend per month
• Participate in OR call
• Collaborate with attending physicians and care teams

Nurse Practitioner – Cardiac Surgery

• Complete comprehensive patient assessments
• Consult with physicians when patient needs fall outside Nurse Practitioner scope of practice or diagnosis/treatment plan is unclear
• Participate in the health care team
• Promote communication within the team and interdisciplinary health care staff
• Act as a resource to team members
• Provide rounding-only cardiac surgery care at Abbott Northwestern Hospital and United Hospital
• Work in inpatient and outpatient settings
• Participate in weekend rotation, approximately one weekend per month

Physician Assistant

• Provide clinical care for patients
• Complete comprehensive patient assessments
• Determine diagnosis and treatment of illness
• Order and interpret medical diagnostics in tandem with attending physician
• Prescribe medications, treatments, therapy and medical equipment
• Conduct patient education for chronic illness management or wellness care
• Refer patients for specialty care when determined
• Consult with physicians when needs exceed Physician Assistant scope or diagnosis/treatment plans are unclear
• Work across inpatient and outpatient settings
• Serve as educator, case manager and consultant to staff and multidisciplinary healthcare teams
• Work 2–3 clinic days and 1–2 operating-room days per week
• Float among 3 MD teams
• Participate in call rotation, including 3–4 weekends per year

Physician Assistant – Orthopedics

Nurse

• Practice in a full-scope collaborative environment
• Provide comprehensive care across inpatient and outpatient settings, including pregnancy, labor and birth, postpartum, immediate newborn care, gynecologic and family-planning needs
• Independently provide labor support, water birth and VBAC/TOLAC services
• Provide safe, compassionate, evidence-based care
• Provide clinic and call coverage
• Cover United Women's Health Clinic and United Hospital, with additional coverage at Apple Valley and Woodbury Clinic
• Collaborate with in-house OB and maternal fetal medicine groups
• Attend approximately 40–50 births per month across three affiliated clinics
• Deliver a natural birth experience and nontraditional care in the hospital
• Support whole-person population health care initiatives
• Mentor CNM and NP students
• Participate in research and QI projects
• Follow standards for Nurse Midwifery Practice established by the American College of Nurse-Midwives and Minnesota statute

Certified Nurse Midwife

• Provide first-assist and perioperative support for MIGS surgical procedures
• Assist with robotic, laparoscopic, hysteroscopic, and complex vaginal gynecologic procedures
• Complete preoperative assessments and coordinate surgical readiness
• Enter and manage preoperative and postoperative orders and patient care activities
• Collaborate with surgeons, anesthesia providers, nursing teams, and operating room staff
• Support urgent and emergent gynecologic surgical procedures as needed
• Provide inpatient postoperative care, daily rounds, recovery assessments, treatment planning, and discharge coordination
• Evaluate and manage patients with complex benign gynecologic conditions
• Conduct preoperative consultations, surgical counseling, and postoperative follow-up visits
• Order and interpret diagnostic testing, imaging, and laboratory studies
• Coordinate multidisciplinary care, referrals, and communication among patients, families, consultants, and care teams
• Provide clinic support when operating room coverage is not required
• Support continuity of care from consultation and surgical planning through hospitalization and postoperative recovery
• Help develop and expand the growing MIGS program and future urgent gynecologic surgery coverage model

Physician Assistant – MIGS

• Complete comprehensive patient assessments and determine diagnosis and treatment of illness
• Use a multidisciplinary team approach to treat complex conditions
• Provide surgical assistance in the OR for vaginal, laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgeries
• Consult with physicians when patient needs fall outside the Physician Assistant scope of practice or diagnosis/treatment plans are unclear
• Support a system-wide referral source spanning the Twin Cities and outlying areas
• Educate patients on treatment plans, chronic condition management and preventive wellness
• Work collaboratively with patients to improve their health and well-being
• Support urodynamics
• Collaborate with Colorectal, OB/GYN, PFPT, Urology and other specialties
• Provide care in clinic and OR settings, with occasional call
• Cover multiple sites including Abbott Northwestern Hospital, United Hospital, Bandana Square Clinic and Lakeville Specialty Clinic

Clinical Educator – Diabetes Dietetic

Neurosurgery Nurse Practitioner

RN Clinician, Cardiology

Contract Management Specialist

Holter and Stress Test Technician

Nursing Assistant

Trauma Advanced Practice Provider – PA, NP

Charge Capture Representative

Obstetrician and Gynecologist – Clinic Only

Nurse Practitioner – Cardiac Surgery

Nurse Practitioner – Cardiac Surgery

Physician Assistant – Orthopedics

Certified Nurse Midwife

Physician Assistant – MIGS

Physician Assistant – Urogynecology