Registered Nurse (RN) | Oncology Clinic and Infusion Clinic | PRN

Sioux Center Health; Pierre (SD); On-site; USD 42,705 - 63,714; Part time

Job summary

Sioux Center Health is hiring a Registered Nurse in Pierre, South Dakota for a PRN (as needed) role. This position requires the successful applicant to obtain the ONS Chemo Provider Card within the first six months. The pay ranges from $31.00 to $46.25 depending on experience. Responsibilities include patient care, developing nursing care plans, and ensuring compliance with safety standards. Ideal candidates will demonstrate effective communication and teamwork in a clinical environment.

Avera is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Active RN license upon hire is mandatory.
• Communicate effectively with patients and healthcare team.
• Experience in a clinical setting is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care by implementing nursing care plans.
• Document all patient care services accurately.
• Ensure a safe and healthy environment for patients.

Skills

Registered Nurse License

Communication Skills

Patient Care

Problem Solving

Education

Registered Nurse education

Job description

Overview

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

Location
Avera Helmsley Center-Pierre

Worker Type
PRN

Work Shift
Day Shift (United States of America)

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

$31.00 - $46.25

Position Highlights

Infusion would require obtaining the ONS (Oncology Nursing Society) Chemo Provider Card within first six months of employment.

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 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; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventative maintenance; calling for repairs.
• Keeps patient care supplies ready by checking stock; anticipating needs; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; stocking items.

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

• Experience working in a clinical environment

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

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].