Registered Nurse (RN) | Behavioral Health Adolescent Unit

Sioux Center Health; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 33,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off available from day 1

Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement

Career development guided by hands-on training

Job summary

Sioux Center Health is looking for a dedicated Registered Nurse (RN) to join the Avera Behavioral Health Center in Sioux Falls. This position involves providing comprehensive patient care in a structured environment, focusing on the needs of children and adolescents.

The role requires excellent communication and critical thinking skills, with rotating shifts and opportunities for sign-on bonuses. Benefits include paid time off from day one and retirement matching.

Qualifications

• Ability to work specified hours and perform essential job functions satisfactorily.
• Must possess adequate visual acuity and effective communication skills.
• Experience in a clinical environment preferred (1-3 years).

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care and support to patients, families, and friends.
• Review physician prescriptions and coordinate with healthcare team.
• Document patient care services and maintain competence in nursing capabilities.

Skills

Patient care

Critical thinking

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Registered Nurse (RN) with an active state license

Tools

Electronic health records

Job description

Position Overview

Location: Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls

Worker Type: Regular

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

Pay Range: $32.50 - $48.50 (actual pay dependent upon experience)

Position Highlights: This position may be eligible for a sign-on bonus of up to $15,000. Nurses with 3+ years of experience: Every 3rd weekend and every other holiday. Nurses with less than 3 years: Every other weekend and every other holiday.

Unit Overview

The Avera Behavioral Health Adolescent & Child Unit is designed to be a structured and age-appropriate therapeutic environment for adolescents and children, helping them learn to understand problems, use healthy coping skills, and set and complete goals.

You Will Enjoy This Setting If You Are an RN

• Enjoys working with children ages 5 to 12 and adolescents ages 13 to 17, as well as their families.
• Has a passion for helping patients with conditions such as addiction, anxiety disorders, ADHD, 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 deliver high-quality patient care in an energizing team environment.

Key Unit Highlights

• Adolescent program expanding to 40 beds.
• Child unit: 14 beds.
• Adolescent residential: 8 beds.
• Opportunity to meet 70+ coworkers.
• Opportunity to change lives of both adolescents and children.
• One RN for a 7-8 patient ratio.
• Self-scheduling program.

What You Will Do

• Provide patient care by reviewing physician prescriptions, communicating the nursing care plan and all pertinent information to other members of the health-care team, and coordinating with other providers; provide physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends, and confer with physicians.
• Develop nursing care plans by obtaining medical histories, examining patients, documenting patient condition, establishing nursing diagnoses, objectives, and interventions.
• Teach healthcare requirements by establishing patient-care goals and instructing patients, families, and friends to understand conditions, medications, and self-care skills; answer questions and provide information and resources.
• Evaluate patient care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring outcomes, reviewing records, noting changes, re-evaluating objectives, and modifying plans.
• Maintain a safe, secure, and healthy environment by adhering to infection-control policies, medication administration procedures, controlled-substance regulations, organizational standards, and legal regulations; alert others to potential concerns.
• Document patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Keep patient-care equipment operating by following instructions, troubleshooting, maintaining supplies, performing preventive maintenance, and calling for repairs.
• Keep supplies ready by checking stock, anticipating needs, placing orders, verifying receipt, and stocking items.
• Maintain competence in nursing capabilities as outlined by leadership.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the specified hours, perform each essential job function satisfactorily, have adequate visual acuity, and communicate effectively. 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.

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience

• Registered Nurse (RN) with an active state license (Board of Nursing) upon hire.

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience

• 1-3 years of experience working in a clinical environment.

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles.
• Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE).
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating workflow and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA when applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

• Paid time off available from day 1 for eligible hires.
• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement.
• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship.

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran Status, or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-605-504-4444 or send an email to [e-mail].