Registered Nurse; RN or Licensed Practical Nurse; LPN |BehavioralHealthAdolescent Unit

Location:

Avera Behavioral Health Center – Sioux Falls

Worker Type:
Regular

Work Shift:

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

Pay Range: $24.50 – $48.50 per hour (actual pay rate dependent upon experience)

• May be eligible for a sign‑on bonus of up to $15,000, depending on qualifications and experience
• Registered Nurses with 3+ years of experience may receive a bonus for every 3rd weekend and every other holiday
• Adolescent program expanding to 40 units; child unit 14 beds; adolescent residential 8 beds
• Opportunity to work with 70+ coworkers and to change lives of adolescents and children
• 1 Licensed Practical Nurse for 7–8 patient ratio; self‑scheduling program

The Avera Behavioral Health Adolescent & Child Unit is a structured, age‑appropriate therapeutic environment where adolescents and children learn to understand problems, use healthy coping skills, and set and complete goals.

You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are a nurse who:

• Enjoys working with children ages 5 to 12 and adolescents ages 13 to 17, as well as their families
• Has a passion for helping patients with conditions such as addiction, anxiety disorders, ADHD, depression, or suicidal behavior
• 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

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.

• 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; confer with physicians.
• Develop nursing care plans by obtaining medical histories; examine patients; document patient physical condition, psychological status, and influencing social factors; confer with family and friends; develop a nursing diagnosis; establish nursing care objectives; define 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; measure health outcomes against patient care standards; review patient records; note changing conditions and needs; re‑evaluate care objectives; modify 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; adhere to organization standards and policies, and to legal regulations; alert 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; troubleshoot breakdowns; maintain supplies; perform preventive maintenance; call 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 and perform each essential job function satisfactorily, including having visual acuity adequate for position duties and the ability to communicate effectively, hear, understand, and distinguish speech and other sounds.

• Registered Nurse (RN) – Board of Nursing license active in the state of…