Registered Nurse; RN Behavioral Health Adult C

Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls

Regular

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

$32.50 - $48.50

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

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.

• 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

• 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 patients
• 1 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/2wks

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 procedures, and controlled…