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

Position: Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) | Child Unit
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* Location:

** Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls
** Worker Type:
** Regular
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* Work Shift:

** Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends/holidays (United States of America)
** Pay Range:
*** The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.*$24.00 - $48.00
** Position Highlights
** RN Pay Range: $32.00 - $48.00

LPN Pay Range: $24.00 - $33.25
* This position may be eligible for a Sign on Bonus
**** Every 3rd weekend / holiday rotation
*** Licensure Requirements for LPN Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Board of Nursing An active license in the state of practice Upon Hire Required About our Programs:

The Avera Adolescent Addiction Care Program is designed to be an age-appropriate residential treatment facility. Residents receive a tailor-made recovery program based on their personal needs with a focus on healthy coping skills.

The Avera Behavioral Health Adolescent & Child Units are designed to be a structured and age-appropriate therapeutic environment for adolescents and children to learn to understand problems, use healthy coping skills and set and complete goals.
** You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are Nurse that:
*** Has a passion for working with adolescents on their addiction recovery path.
* Is dynamic and flexible
* Enjoys the ability to work in multiple patient care settings (Addiction Care with cross training to the Child/Adolescent Program)
* Enjoys patient focused care with a team that is dedicated to quality patients outcomes
* Has a passion helping patients with conditions such as Addiction, Anxiety Disorders, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and 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 delivery high-quality patient care in an energizing team environment.
** Unit Highlights:
*** This position is cross trained to work in Adolescent Addiction, Adolescent Program and Child Program
* Adolescent Addition is a 8 bed residential program
* Adolescent program is a 40 bed unit
* Child unit is a 14 bed unit
* Opportunity to meet 70+ coworkers
* Opportunity to change lives of both Adolescent and Children
* Self-scheduling program
** 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…