Registered Nurse; RN Operating Room

Primarily days with night, weekend and holiday on-call involvement (United States of America)

Avera St Luke's Hospital

Regular

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.

$33.50 - $48.50

Now Hiring:
Registered Nurse – Operating Room (OR)

This position is eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program! Receive an extra $167 per month (up to $10,000) applied directly to your loan principal—helping you pay off debt faster while saving money.

• $20,000 sign-on bonus for nurses with 3+ years of experience
• $15,000 sign-on bonus for New Graduate RNs

Be part of a mission-driven organization that values teamwork, compassion, and excellence. Experience a supportive culture where delivering outstanding care is recognized and celebrated.

Go beyond basic licensure—Avera supports nurses in achieving national specialty certifications and continued professional development.

Work directly with surgical teams to provide high-quality care before, during, and after procedures.

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.

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 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.