RN Float: Cross-Unit Caregiver (72hrs/2wks) — Loan Repayment

Avera Health; Yankton (SD); On-site; USD 72,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO on day one

Retirement match up to 5%

Career development and mentorship

Student loan repayment program

Job summary

Avera Health in Yankton, SD is seeking a Registered Nurse to deliver comprehensive nursing care on rotating days, evenings, nights, weekends and holidays. The role emphasizes patient care, care planning, education, and collaboration across disciplines.

Hospital experience preferred and diverse patient settings support professional growth. Expect a supportive team with strong CARE values, student loan repayment options, and opportunities for career development as part of a mission-driven health

Qualifications

• Provide patient care by reviewing physician orders and coordinating with care team.
• Develop and implement nursing care plans based on patient needs.
• Educate patients and families on conditions, medications, and self-care.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Performs with minimal supervision. Demonstrates knowledge of several departments. Utilizes safe and appropriate patient care protocol as set forth in the standards of practice and the unit/department policy and procedures. Maintains competence in nursing capabilities outlined by leadership.

Skills

Nursing care

Care planning

Patient education

Infection control

Team coordination

Documentation

Education

Registered Nurse (RN) license

Job description

Avera Health in Yankton, SD is seeking a Registered Nurse to deliver comprehensive nursing care on rotating days, evenings, nights, weekends and holidays. The role emphasizes patient care, care planning, education, and collaboration across disciplines.

Hospital experience preferred and diverse patient settings support professional growth. Expect a supportive team with strong CARE values, student loan repayment options, and opportunities for career development as part of a mission-driven health