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

Location: Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls. Rotating days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.

Position Highlights

• This position may be eligible for a sign-on bonus.
• Nurses with 3+ years of experience: every 3rd weekend, every other holiday.
• Nurses with < 3 years of experience: every other weekend, every other holiday.
• 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.
• Student Loan Repayment: Eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program, providing an extra payment of $167 monthly (up to $10,000) to help pay down principal balance faster.

About the Role

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.

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

• Enjoys patient-focused care with a team dedicated to quality patient outcomes.
• Likes working with the adult population as well as their families.
• Has a passion for helping patients with conditions such as Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Bipolar, Depression, and 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 patients, families, and friends to understand conditions, 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 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 and policies, and legal regulations; alerting others regarding potential concerns.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Maintains patient care equipment 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.
• Registered Nurse (RN) with an active license in the state of practice (upon hire).

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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

Pay

The pay range for this position is $24.50 - $48.50 per hour, with actual pay rate dependent upon experience.