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Riggs Community Health
Lafayette, Indiana

Clinical Triage Nurse

Registered NurseFull-Time

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Job Description

Riggs Community Health Center is a top-rated non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). We are seeking service and community minded individuals to join our skilled care teams who provide much needed outpatient medical care to an under-served community. Riggs Community Health Center... Improving Health, Improving Lives.

Riggs Community Health Center is seeking a Clinical Triage Nurse to provide centralized telephone triage, medication refill management, patient portal support, and care coordination in an outpatient primary care setting. This role helps ensure patients receive timely clinical guidance while supporting providers, the Call Center, and nursing teams.

The ideal candidate will be an Indiana-licensed LPN or RN with current CPR certification and strong communication, organization, and critical-thinking skills. Ambulatory care and NextGen EHR experience are preferred.

The Clinical Triage Nurse will assess patient symptoms, provide education and appropriate care recommendations, coordinate follow-up, manage clinical communications, and accurately document patient interactions. The position requires independent clinical judgment, professionalism, confidentiality, and the ability to travel between Riggs locations as needed.

Key Responsibilities

The Clinical Triage Nurse provides centralized telephone triage, manages medication refills, and supports patient portal inquiries. They also assess patient symptoms, provide care recommendations, and coordinate follow-up care within an outpatient primary care setting.

Requirements

Candidates must be an Indiana-licensed LPN or RN with current CPR certification. Strong communication, organization, and critical-thinking skills are required, with preference given to those with ambulatory care and NextGen EHR experience.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical assessmentPatient educationDocumentation

Primary Care — Registered Nurse Career Context

In Indiana, the Registered Nurse weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$96k (18 salary observations; 83 listings), vs ~$95k nationally (1,135 salary observations; 3,706 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Registered Nurse listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 52% have no call, 74% require no weekends.

Registered Nurse pay on WeekdayDoc is up 24.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Indiana is 93.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.4% of Indiana clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Registered Nurse Jobs

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Salary Distribution31 jobs · 29 employers

10
<$100k
10
$100k-120k
5
$120k-140k
6
$140k-160k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks28 jobs

401k / retirement match
96%
Sign-on bonus
18%
Loan repayment
7%
CME allowance
4%
PSLF eligible
4%

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.9this job 3.0
Better work-life than 40% of Registered Nurse roles listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 5,892 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Lafayette

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$267k
Typical market rent
$1,296/mo
Residents’ average commute
16 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
93.4
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.