Registered Nurse (RN) | Behavioral Health Urgent Care

Position Highlights

This position may be eligible for a Sign On Bonus up to $15,000.

Student Loan Repayment

This Registered Nurse (RN) position may be eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program, which helps you pay off your loans and save money. Each month an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) from Avera will help pay down your principal balance faster.

A 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;
• Coinciding with other healthcare providers;
• Providing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends;
• Conferring with physicians.

Develops nursing care plans

• Obtaining medical histories;
• Examining patients;
• Documenting patient physical condition, psychological status, and influencing social factors;
• Confer with family and friends;
• Developing a nursing diagnosis;
• Establishing nursing care objectives;
• Defining nursing interventions, schedules, and timetables.

Teaches healthcare requirements

• 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

• Adhering to therapeutic standards;
• Making measurements of health outcomes against patient care standards;
• Reviewing patient records;
• Note changing conditions and needs;
• Re-evaluating care objectives;
• Modifying nursing care plan.

Maintains safe, secure, and healthy patient care environment

• Adhering to infection-control policies and protocols;
• Adhering to medication administration and storage procedures;
• Adhering to controlled substance regulations;
• Adhering to organization standards and policies;
• To legal regulations;
• Alerting others regarding potential concerns.

Documents patient care services

• Charting in patient and department records.

Maintains competence in nursing capabilities

• Outlining 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