Registered Nurse; RN | New Grad

Location

Avera Sacred Heart Hospital

Worker Type:
Regular.

Work Shift:

Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends/holidays (United States of America). Pay Range: $32.50 - $48.50.

All new graduates are welcome to apply! Start your career where you belong—begin your journey as a new graduate n your education into a meaningful career doing what you love. We’re seeking passionate and driven new graduates ready to grow, make a difference, and care deeply for others. This is more than just your first job—it’s the start of a fulfilling career with a team that values your unique perspective, supports your growth, and celebrates your compassion.

Your journey begins here.

• Positions may be eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program.
• Each month, an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) from Avera will help pay down your principal balance faster.

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.

Deliver 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.

• Provide patient care by reviewing physician prescriptions; communicate the nursing care plan and all pertinent information to other members of the health care team; coordinate with other healthcare providers.
• Provide physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends; confere with physicians.
• Develop 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.
• Teach healthcare requirements by establishing patient care goals; instruct patient, family, and friends to understand condition, medications, and self‑care skills; answer questions; provide information and resources.
• Evaluate 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.
• Maintain 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 to legal regulations; alerting others regarding potential concerns.
• Document patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Keep patient care equipment operating by following operating instructions and established procedures; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs.
• Keep patient care supplies ready by checking stock; anticipating needs; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; stocking items.
• Maintain competence in nursing capabilities outlined by leadership.

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily, including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand, and distinguish speech and other sounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

• Required Education, License/Certification, or
  
  Work Experience:
  
  Registered Nurse (RN) – Board of Nursing. An active license in the state of practice upon hire.
• Preferred Education,…