Registered Nurse

Job Description\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Location:\n \n \n \n \n \n \nAvera Sacred Heart Hospital\n\nWorker Type:Regular\n\nWork Shift:Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends/holidays (United States of America)\n\nPay Range:\nThe pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.$32.50 - $51.50\n\nPosition Highlights\nPosition Highlights\nAll New grads are welcome to apply! \n\n**May be eligible for up to $15,000 sign on bonus!\n\nStart Your Career Where You Belong — Begin Your Journey as a New Graduate at Avera!\nTurn your education into a meaningful career doing what you love. At Avera, we’re seeking passionate and driven new graduates ready to grow, make a difference, and care deeply for others. This is more than just your first job — it’s the start of a fulfilling career with a team that values your unique perspective, supports your growth, and celebrates your compassion.Your journey begins here.\n\nStudent Loan Repayment:Positions may be eligible forAvera’sStudent Loan Repayment Program, which helps you pay off your loans and save money. Each month an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) fromAverawill help pay down your principal balance faster.\n\nDepartments Options: \n\n Medical Surgical Unit\n Pre/Post Operative \n Emergency Room Float\n Dialysis\n\n\nYou Belong at Avera\n\nBe part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.\n\nA Brief Overview\n\n\nDelivers 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. \n\nWhat you will do\n\n\n 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.\n 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.\n 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.\n 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.\n 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.\n Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.\n Keeps patient care equipment operating by following operating instructions and established procedures; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs.\n Keeps patient care supplies ready by checking stock; anticipating needs; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; stocking items.\n Maintains competence in nursing capabilities outlined by leadership.\n\nEssential Qualifications\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nRequired Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:\n\n\n Registered Nurse (RN) - Board of Nursing An active license in the state of practice Upon Hire\n\nPreferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:\n\n\n 1-3 years Experience working in a clinical environment\n\nExpectations and Standards\n\n\n Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.\n Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.\n Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.\n Maintain confidentiality.\n Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.\n Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.\n\n\n\nBenefits You Need & Then Some\n\n\nAvera 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.\n\n \n PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.\n \n Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement\n \n Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship\n\n\nAvera 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 View phone number on click.appcast.io or send an email to View email address on click.appcast.io.