Registered Nurse (RN) | Womens Center

Avera Health; United States; On-site; USD 47,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO from day 1

Retirement matching up to 5%

Career development

Job summary

Avera Health in the United States is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to join a Women’s Center team at Avera St Luke's Hospital. You will deliver nursing care, develop care plans, and support families during labor and delivery.

The role features rotating shifts (days/evenings/nights/weekends/holidays) with a market pay range and bonus opportunities. Qualifications include an active RN license, state board registration, and 1–3 years of clinical experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work the hours specified.
• Active RN license is required.
• 1–3 years of clinical experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides patient care by reviewing physician prescriptions and coordinating with the health care team.
• Develops nursing care plans by assessing patients and family needs and establishing objectives.
• Teaches patients and families about conditions, medications, and self-care.
• Evaluates patient care according to standards and outcomes and updates plans as needed.
• Maintains safe and compliant care environment following policies and regulations.

Education

Registered Nurse (RN) - Board of Nursing

Active license in state of practice

Job description

Location: Avera St Luke's Hospital

Worker Type: Regular

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

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

Position Highlights

We’re Growing Our Women’s Center Team! Where tiny toes, big moments, and incredible care all come together. If you love high-touch care, teamwork, and moments that matter, this might be your perfect fit. You get to help welcome brand-new humans into the world. Every shift brings a new miracle (and sometimes surprise hair bows!). You’ll support moms, babies, and families during their most unforgettable moments. You’ll become a pro at swaddling, soothing, and celebrating first cries. Your job literally changes lives before they’ve even begun.

$15,000 or $20,000 sign-on bonus depending on experience! Ask about our Relocation Bonus! Student Loan Repayment: This position may be eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program, which helps you pay off your loans and save money. Each month an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) from Avera will help pay down your principal balance faster.

Schedule: Varied shifts: 6:00am-6:30pm, 6:00pm-6:30am, E3rd wknd/hol, occas call; 72hrs/2wks

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.

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

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

• 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].

At Avera, the way you are treated as an employee translates into the compassionate care you deliver to patients and team members. Because we consider health care a ministry, you can live out your faith, uphold the dignity and respect of all persons while not compromising high-quality services. Join us in making a positive impact on moving health forward.