Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) | Med Surg

Avera Health; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 33,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus up to $15,000

Student Loan Repayment Program

Job summary

Avera Sacred Heart Hospital is seeking registered nurses to provide high-quality care on rotating shifts including nights and weekends. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to assess patient needs, administer medications, and educate patients and families on treatment plans.

This role emphasizes compassionate care, safety, and adherence to infection-control policies while delivering comprehensive nursing services to patients and their families.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work the specified hours (7pm-7am, 7am-7pm) and weekend/holiday rotations.

Responsibilities

• Delivers nursing care by reviewing physician prescriptions and communicating the care plan to the health care team.
• Develops nursing care plans by assessing patients and documenting their condition and needs.
• Teaches patients and families about care requirements and self-care.
• Evaluates patient care by monitoring outcomes and adjusting plans as needed.
• Maintains safety by following infection-control policies and medication handling procedures.
• Documents patient care in charts and records.
• Keeps equipment and supplies ready and in good working order.

Job description

Location

Avera Sacred Heart Hospital

Worker Type

Regular

Work Shift

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

Pay Range

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

$24.50 - $48.50

Position Highlights

Hours: 7pm-7am & 7am-7pm; 72hrs/2wks; Every 3rd weekend/holiday

RNs may be eligible for up to $15,000 sign on bonus!!

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.

LPN pay scale: $24.50 - 29.13 -33.75

RN pay scale: $32.50- 40.50 - 48.50

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 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.