Registered Nurse (RN) | Behavioral Health Adolescent Unit

Position Highlights

• This position may be eligible for a sign on bonus of up to $15,000.
• Nurses with 3+ years of experience - Every 3rd weekend, Every other holiday
• Nurses with < 3 yrs – Every other weekend, Every other holiday

Why is Behavioral Health important?

The Avera Behavioral Health Adolescent & Child Unit are designed to be a structured and age-appropriate therapeutic environment for adolescents and children to learn to understand problems, use healthy coping skills and set and complete goals.

Position Highlights:

• Adolescent program is expanding to 40 unit
• Child unit is a 14 bed unit
• Adolescent Residential is a 8 bed unit
• Opportunity to meet 70+ coworkers
• Opportunity to change lives of both Adolescent and Children
• 1 RN for 7-8 patient ratio
• Self-scheduling program

Brief Overview

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.

What you will do

• 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

Essential Qualifications

• The individual must be able to work the hours specified.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience

• Registered Nurse (RN) - Board of Nursing
• An active license in the state of practice

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience

• 1-3 years Experience working in a clinical environment