Registered Nurse (RN) | Behavioral Health | Acute Unit

Location: Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls

About the role

The Avera Behavioral Health Acute Unit is a short-term inpatient unit with safety and stabilization as the primary focus for patients. During a patient’s stay on the Acute unit, patients actively participate in healthy living and expressive therapies which include art, music, and fitness therapy.

You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are someone that:

• Enjoys patient-focused care with a team that is dedicated to quality patient outcomes
• Likes working with the Adult population as well as their families
• Has a passion helping patients with conditions such as Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Bipolar, Depression, Addictive disorders
• Appreciates an active, challenging care environment that requires critical thinking
• Values autonomous professional nursing practice
• Possesses motivation to help create and deliver high-quality patient care in an energizing team environment

Position highlights:

• Acute unit is an 18-bed unit
• Opportunity to meet 60+ coworkers and work in a positive environment
• Opportunity to change the lives of your patients
• Self-scheduling program
• This position may be eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $15,000
• Student Loan Repayment: Eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program, which helps pay off loans with an extra monthly payment of $167 (up to $10,000)

Schedule:

• Nurses with 3+ years of experience: Every 3rd weekend, every other holiday
• Nurses with < 3 years of experience: Every other weekend, every other holiday
• Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends/holidays

Responsibilities

• Delivers Nursing Care by developing a nursing diagnosis; establishing nursing care objectives; defining nursing interventions; providing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends to understand patient conditions, medications, and self-care skills; noting changing conditions and needs; re-evaluating care objectives.
• Provides patient care by reviewing physician prescriptions; communicating the nursing care plan and all pertinent information to other members of the health care team; coordinating with other healthcare providers; providing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends; conferring with physicians.
• Develops nursing care plans by obtaining medical histories; examining patients; documenting patient physical condition, psychological status, and influencing social factors; conferring with family and friends; developing a nursing diagnosis; establishing nursing care objectives; defining nursing interventions, schedules, and timetables.
• Teaches healthcare requirements by establishing patient care goals; instructing patient, family, and friends to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions; providing information and resources.
• Evaluates patient care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care standards; reviewing patient records; noting changing conditions and needs; re-evaluating care objectives; modifying nursing care plan.
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy patient care environment by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations; adhering to organization standards and policies, and to legal regulations; alerting others regarding potential concerns.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Keeps patient care equipment operating by following operating instructions and established procedures; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs.
• Keeps patient care supplies ready by checking stock; anticipating needs; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; stocking items.
• Maintains competence in nursing capabilities outlined by leadership.

Requirements

• The individual must be able to work the hours specified.
• Visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand, and distinguish speech and other sounds.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Qualifications

Required:

• Registered Nurse (RN) - Board of Nursing with an active license in the state of practice (upon hire)

Preferred:

• 1-3 years of experience working in a clinical environment

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating workflow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO available day 1 for eligible hires
• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement
• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship

Pay

The pay range for this position is $32.50 - $48.50 per hour, with actual pay rate dependent upon experience.