Registered Nurse; RN | Behavioral Health Adult C

Position: Registered Nurse (RN) | Behavioral Health Adult C
Location:

Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls Worker Type:

Regular

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.$32.50 - $48.50

Position Highlights This position may be eligible for a Sign On Bonus up to $15,000

Nurses with 3+ years of experience
- Every 3rd weekend, Every other holiday

Nurses with < 3 yrs – Every other weekend, Every other holiday

Why is Behavioral Health important?

The Avera Behavioral Health Adult C Unit is designed to be a structured, therapeutic environment for adults to learn to understand their diagnosis, develop a Crisis Response Plan, use healthy coping skills and set and complete goals.

You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are Nurse that:

Enjoys patient focused care with a team that is dedicated to quality patient outcomes

Likes working with the Adult population

Has a passion for helping patients with Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Substance Abuse and 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

Unit Highlights:

The Adult C Unit is a split unit (C-West and C-East with at total capacity of 44 beds Opportunity to meet 60+ coworkers and work in a positive environment.

Opportunity to change the lives of your patients1 nurse for 5 patient ratio on C-West and 1 nurse of 8 patient ratio on C-East Flexible scheduling program

Student Loan Repayment:
This Registered Nurse (RN) position is 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.

Varied Shifts; 72hrs/2wksYou 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;…