Registered Nurse | Long Term Care Avera Health

City of Creighton; Nebraska; On-site; USD 45,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Avera Creighton Care Center in Creighton, NE, is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Evening Shift. The role involves delivering comprehensive nursing care, coordinating with the healthcare team, and supporting residents and families.

Qualifications include an active RN license and 1–3 years in clinical or long-term care settings. A sign-on bonus of up to $15,000 may be available, with a schedule of 1:45pm–10:15pm and every other weekend/holiday.

Qualifications

• Active RN license in the state of practice.
• Must be able to perform essential job functions with reasonable accommodations if needed.

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing care by reviewing physician orders and care plans.
• Develop nursing care plans based on patient histories and assessments.
• Educate residents and families about conditions, medications, and self-care practices.
• Evaluate care outcomes and adjust plans as needed.
• Maintain a safe and compliant care environment according to policies.

Skills

Communication

Nursing assessment

Team coordination

Education

RN license

Job description

Location:
Avera Creighton Care Center

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Evening Shift (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

*May be eligible for $15,000 sign on bonus!

Hours: 1:45pm-10:15pm; 80hrs/2wks; Every other weekend/holiday

Student Loan Repayment:This position may be eligible forAvera’sStudent Loan Repayment Program, which helps you pay off your loans and save money. Each month an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) fromAverawill help pay down your principal balance faster.

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 residents, families, and friends to understand residents conditions, medications, and self-care skills; noting changing conditions and needs; re-evaluating care objectives.

What you will do

• Provides resident 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 residents, families, and friends; conferring with physicians.
• Develops nursing care plans by obtaining medical histories; examining residents; documenting residents 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 resident care goals; instructing resident, family, and friends to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions; providing information and resources.
• Evaluates resident’s care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against resident care standards; reviewing resident’s records; noting changing conditions and needs; re-evaluating care objectives; modifying nursing care plan.
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy resident 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.
• Keeps resident care equipment operating by following operating instructions and established procedures; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs.
• Keeps resident care supplies ready by checking stock; anticipating needs; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; stocking items.
• Coordinates admissions, discharges and transfers to and from the facility.
• Directs, plans and coordinates workflow of nursing assistants and other nursing personal.
• Maintains competence in nursing capabilities outlined by leadership.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

Registered Nurse (RN) – Board of Nursing An active license in the state of practice Upon Hire

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

1-3 years Experience working in a clinical or long term care environment