Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practice Nurse (LPN) | Behavioral Health Adult Unit
About the role
The Avera Behavioral Health Adult B Unit is a structured, therapeutic environment for adults to learn to understand their diagnosis, develop a Crisis Response Plan, use healthy coping skills and set and complete goals. This role is ideal for a Nurse who enjoys patient‑focused care with a team dedicated to quality outcomes, likes working with the adult population, has a passion for helping patients with anxiety, depression, personality disorders and suicidal behavior, appreciates an active, challenging care environment requiring critical thinking, values autonomous professional nursing practice, and is motivated to help create and deliver high‑quality patient care in an energizing team environment.
Unit highlights: 28‑bed unit; opportunity to meet 60+ coworkers and work in a positive environment; opportunity to change the lives of your patients; 1 RN for 7‑8 patient ratio; flexible scheduling program; student loan repayment program (see Benefits).
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.