Registered Nurse; RN | Link

Position: Registered Nurse (RN) | The Link
Location: Larchwood

Location:

Avera Behavioral Health Center Link

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends (United States of America)

Pay Range:

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

$32.00 - $48.00

Position Highlights

* This position may be eligible for a $18,000 sign on bonus with a 3-year commitment
* What is The Link?

The Link which is a community triage center located in Sioux Falls that is assist individuals who are experiencing a non-violent behavioral health crisis, seeking treatment for substance abuse disorders or searching for support services. Being a community triage center, The Link assists in meeting the individual’s needs for critical services and linking them to the services to assist with their mental health or substance abuse challenges.

You will enjoy working at The Link if you are Nurse that:

• Has a passion for serving others who are needing assistance with

• Withdrawal management

• Observation for intoxicated individuals

• Crisis stabilization

• 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.

Unit Highlights:

• Opportunity to work 20 different staff members

• Work with a dynamic and comprehensive team that includes:
Physicians, Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Paramedics, Triage Techs, Social Workers and Behavioral Health Techs.

• Self-scheduling program

• Student Loan Repayment:
This Registered Nurse (RN) position may be eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program, which helps you pay off your loans and save money. Each month an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) from Avera will help pay down your principal balance faster.

7:00am-7:00pm/7:00pm-7:00am, e/3rd wknd/hol; 72hrs/2wks

You Belong at Avera

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.

A Brief Overview

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.

What you will do

• 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…