Registered Nurse (RN) | Behavioral Health | Addiction Adolescent Unit

Avera•Sioux Falls, SD

21h•Onsite

About The Position

This Registered Nurse (RN) position is for the Addiction Adolescent Unit at Avera Behavioral Health Center in Sioux Falls. The role involves delivering comprehensive nursing care, including developing nursing diagnoses, establishing care objectives, defining interventions, and providing holistic support to patients and their families. The RN will work as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on improving patient health and well-being.

Requirements

Must be able to work the hours specified.
Visual acuity adequate to perform position duties.
Ability to communicate effectively with others.
Ability to hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.
Registered Nurse (RN) - Board of Nursing
An active license in the state of practice Upon Hire

Nice To Haves

1-3 years Experience working in a clinical environment

Responsibilities

Develops a nursing diagnosis; establishes nursing care objectives; defines nursing interventions; provides physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends to understand patient conditions, medications, and self-care skills; notes changing conditions and needs; re-evaluates care objectives.
Reviews physician prescriptions; communicates the nursing care plan and all pertinent information to other members of the health care team; coordinates with other healthcare providers; provides physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends; confers with physicians.
Obtains medical histories; examines patients; documents patient physical condition, psychological status, and influencing social factors; confers with family and friends; develops a nursing diagnosis; establishes nursing care objectives; defines nursing interventions, schedules, and timetables.
Establishes patient care goals; instructs patient, family, and friends to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answers questions; provides information and resources.
Adheres to therapeutic standards; measures health outcomes against patient care standards; reviews patient records; notes changing conditions and needs; re-evaluates care objectives; modifies nursing care plan.
Maintains a safe, secure, and healthy patient care environment by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations; adheres to organization standards and policies, and to legal regulations; alerts 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.