Registered Nurse (RN) | Behavioral Health Senior Unit

Registered Nurse (RN) | Behavioral Health Senior Unit at Avera Health summary :

As a Registered Nurse in the Behavioral Health Senior Unit at Avera, you will provide comprehensive nursing care in a challenging and supportive environment. This role involves working with older adults facing various mental health conditions while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality patient care. You will utilize critical thinking and therapeutic skills to support patients and their families throughout their treatment journey.

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.

$32.00 - $48.00

Position Highlights

• This position may be eligible for $18,000 sign on bonus with a 3 year commitment

Why is Behavioral Health important?

The   Avera Behavioral Health   Senior Unit is a 20 bed unit that provides a welcoming, calming and healing environment to our patients as well as their families. The Senior unit’s environment is an active and challenging care environment that requires critical thinking and at the same time values autonomous professional nursing practice.

You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are Nurse that :

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

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 :

Preferred Education, License / Certification, or Work Experience :

Expectations and Standards

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.

Free health insurance options, for full-time single coverage on Avera High Deductible Health Plan

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 talent@avera.org .

Keywords :

Registered Nurse, Behavioral Health, Mental Health Nursing, Senior Care, Patient Care, Healthcare Team, Dementia Care, Interpersonal Skills, Medical Comorbidities, Therapeutic Skills