Registered Nurse (Rn) Outpatient/Oncology

Avera Health; Aberdeen (SD); On-site; USD 43,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus up to $10,000

Student loan repayment program

Career growth

Positive work environment

Job summary

Avera Health in Aberdeen, SD is seeking a Registered Nurse for our Oncology & Hematology team. This full-time day shift role involves direct patient care, collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, and ongoing patient education. A sign-on bonus and student loan repayment are available to eligible applicants.

You will provide comprehensive nursing care, support families, and participate in care planning and evaluation within a compassionate, mission-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered Nurse with an active state license.
• Oncology experience preferred.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing care by assessing patient conditions and nursing diagnoses.
• Develop and implement nursing care plans with interventions.
• Coordinate with physicians and healthcare team to ensure patient safety.
• Educate patients and families on conditions, medications and self-care.

Education

Registered Nurse (RN) license

Job description

Location:
Avera Oncology & Hematology Aberdeen

Worker Type: Regular

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

• Sign‑On Bonus Available! Registered Nurse: Eligible for up to $10,000 sign‑on
• Student Loan Repayment: May qualify for Avera's Student Loan Repayment Program. Avera contributes $167 per month (up to $10,000) directly toward your loan principal to help you pay down debt faster.
• Positive Work Environment: Join a team that lives the mission through excellent care and supportive teamwork.
• Career Growth: We believe great employees are our best investment-grow your career while being part of the Avera team!

Work Schedule

• Day Shift: Monday-Friday
• 72 hours per two weeks (Full-Time)

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 and ONS Fundamentals Provider Card - Oncology Nursing Society within 60 Days or ONS Chemotherapy Immunotherapy Provider Card - Oncology Nursing Society within 60 days required. If do not have, required upon expiration of ONS Fundamentals Provider Card or within 2 years of hire--whichever is later.

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

Previous Oncology experience

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 sincer