Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) | Behavioral Health Adolescent Unit

About the role

Located at Avera Behavioral Health Center in Sioux Falls. This is a regular position. 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. You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are a Nurse that: enjoys working with children ages 5 to 12 years old and adolescent ages 13 to 17 years old as well as their families; has a passion helping patients with conditions such as Addiction, Anxiety Disorders, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Depression or Suicidal behavior; 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: 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 LPN for 7-8 patient ratio; Self-scheduling program.

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