Registered Nurse (RN) | Operating Room

Sioux Center Health; Aberdeen (SD); On-site; USD 34,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Student Loan Repayment

Sign-On Bonus

Career Development Opportunities

Job summary

Sioux Center Health is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Operating Room (OR) in Aberdeen, South Dakota. This role offers a pay range of $33.50 to $48.50, with additional sign-on bonuses for experienced and new graduate nurses. Join a supportive environment focused on teamwork, compassion, and excellence, where your contributions to patient care are recognized.

The ideal candidate will be a Registered Nurse with an active license and effective communication skills, committed to delivering high-quality care. Additional benefits include opportunities for career growth and loan repayment programs.

Qualifications

• Able to work specified hours and effectively communicate with others.
• Visual acuity adequate to perform position duties.

Responsibilities

• Provides patient care according to nursing care plans.
• Develops nursing care plans with medical histories and patient evaluations.
• Teaches healthcare requirements to patients and families.
• Evaluates patient care and modifies nursing plans as needed.

Skills

Patient care

Nursing diagnosis

Team coordination

Communication

Education

Registered Nurse (RN)

Active license in the state of practice

Job description

Overview

Work Shift: Primarily days with night, weekend and holiday on-call involvement (United States of America).

Location: Avera St Luke's Hospital

Worker Type: Regular

Pay Range: The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience. $33.50 - $48.50

Position Highlights

Registered Nurse – Operating Room (OR)

Why Join Avera’s OR Team?

Student Loan Repayment: This position is eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program. Receive an extra $167 per month (up to $10,000) applied directly to your loan principal—helping you pay off debt faster while saving money.

Sign-On Bonus Opportunities: $20,000 sign-on bonus for nurses with 3+ years of experience; $15,000 sign-on bonus for New Graduate RNs. Positive Work Environment: Be part of a mission-driven organization that values teamwork, compassion, and excellence. Experience a supportive culture where delivering outstanding care is recognized and celebrated.

Career Growth & Advancement: Go beyond basic licensure—Avera supports nurses in achieving national specialty certifications and continued professional development. Meaningful, Hands-On Impact: Work directly with surgical teams to provide high-quality care before, during, and after procedures.

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

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO available 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].