Registered Nurse (RN) Float | Med Surg

About the role

You Belong at Avera. Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

Responsibilities

• Develops a nursing diagnosis; establishes nursing care objectives; defines nursing interventions.
• Provides physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends to help them understand patient conditions, medications, and self-care skills.
• Notes changing conditions and needs; re-evaluates care objectives.
• Reviews physician prescriptions and communicates the nursing care plan and all pertinent information to other members of the health care team.
• Coordinates with other healthcare providers and provides physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends; confers with physicians.
• Obtains medical histories; examines patients; documents patient physical condition, psychological status, and influencing social factors; confers with family and friends.
• Establishes patient care goals; instructs patient, family, and friends to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answers questions; provides information and resources.
• Adheres to therapeutic standards; measures health outcomes against patient care standards; reviews patient records; notes changing conditions and needs; re-evaluates and modifies nursing care plan.
• Maintains a 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, policies, and 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.
• Performs with minimal supervision and demonstrates knowledge of several departments.
• Utilizes safe and appropriate patient care protocol as set forth in the standards of practice and the unit/department policy and procedures.
• Maintains competence in nursing capabilities outlined by leadership.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse (RN) – Board of Nursing.
• An active license in the state of practice upon hire.

Qualifications

• Visual acuity adequate to perform position duties.
• Ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.
• Ability to work the hours specified.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience working in a clinical environment.

Schedule

Primarily days with rotating weekends and holidays.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $34.50 – $51.50 per hour; actual pay rate dependent upon experience.