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

Location

Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls

Regular

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

$24.00 - $48.00

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

• RN Pay Range: $32.00 - $48.00
• LPN Pay Range: $24.00 - $33.00
• * This position may be eligible for a Sign on Bonus*
• Nurses with 3+ years of experience
  - Every 3rd weekend, Every other holiday
• Nurses with < 3 yrs – Every other weekend, Every other holiday

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.

• 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.

• This position is cross trained to work in Adolescent Addiction, Adolescent Program and Child Program
• Adolescent Addiction 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

• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Board of Nursing
• An active license in the state of practice Upon Hire Required

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…