Registered Nurse (RN) | Behavioral Health Acute Unit

**Location:**Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls **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.* $32.50 - $48.50 **Position Highlights** This position may be eligible for a sign on bonus up to $15,000 Nurses with 3+ years of experience - Every 3rd weekend, Every other holiday Nurses with < 3 yrs – Every other weekend, Every other holiday ***Why is Behavioral Health important?*** The Avera Behavioral Health Acute Unit is a short term inpatient unit with safety and stabilization as the primary focus for patients. During patient’s stay on the Acute unit, patients actively participate in healthy living and expressive therapies which include art, music and fitness therapy. **You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are someone that:** - Enjoys patient focused care with a team that is dedicated to quality patient outcomes - Likes working with the Adult population as well as their families - Has a passion helping patients with conditions such as Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Bipolar, Depression, Addictive disorders - Appreciates an active, challenging care environment that requires critical thinking. - Values autonomous professional nursing practice. - Possesses motivation to help create and deliver high-quality patient care in an energizing team environment. **Position Highlights:** - Acute unit is a 18 bed unit - Opportunity to meet 60+ coworkers and work in a positive environment - Opportunity to change the lives of your patients - Self-scheduling program - **Student Loan Repayment:** This Registered Nurse (RN) position is 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. **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…