RN - Obstetrical Unit (60-72 hours)
Huron, South Dakota
The Staff Nurse provides direct nursing care for individual clients with well defined nursing diagnoses. Huron Regional Medical Center is a community hospital.
Posted Sep 25 · New grads welcomed
- Shift and hours
- 12 Hours · Nights/Rotating Shift: 12 Hours - Nights/Rotating; every third weekend and holiday30-36 hours a week
- Unit and setting
- Obstetrical Unit · Hospital RN - Obstetrical Unit (60-72 hours)
- License
- RN license
- Term
- Permanent Job Schedule: Full-timeFull-time
Do you qualify?
- New grads
- Welcomed New Graduates & Experienced RNs welcome to apply!
- Certification
- BLS Certifications: BLS - required, ACLS - preferred but not required, NRP - Must obtain within the first 6 months of hire.
Preferred
- Certification
- ACLS
- Experience
- 1 year Medical/Surgical experience One year Medical/Surgical experience preferred.
- Experience
- Medical/Surgical experience
- Also asks
- Spanish and Karen bilingual Spanish and Karen bilingual applicants encouraged to apply for any open positions in which you are qualified.
Your six-month RN application plan
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Why start this early?
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What it pays
- Bonus
- Incentive bonus or student loan payments $$ Incentive BONUS or Student Loan Payments available!! $$
Benefits
- Benefitshealth insurance
- Benefitsdental insurance
- Benefitsvision insurance
- Benefitslife insurance
- Benefits401(k) retirement plan
- Benefitssick leave
More benefits (2)
- Benefitspaid time off
- 401(k)
The role and schedule
- Floating
- Floats to other units
- Day to day
- provide direct nursing care for individual clients with well-defined nursing diagnoses The Staff Nurse provides direct nursing care for individual clients with well defined nursing diagnoses.
- Day to day
- communicate with and on behalf of the client and coordinate care with health team members The Staff Nurse communicates with and on behalf of the client and coordinates client care with all health team members.
- Day to day
- organize aspects of nursing care accountable in a specified work period The Staff Nurse organizes those aspects of nursing care for which s/he is accountable in a specified work period.
- Cross-training
- cross training required Cross training is required.
- Weekends
- every third weekend Shift: 12 Hours - Nights/Rotating; every third weekend and holiday
- Holidays
- every third holiday
- Hours
- 60-72 hours per two week pay period Status: 60-72 hours per two week pay period
- Details
- Not remote Remote Position: No
The workplace
This is a small South Dakota hospital where RNs move between medical/surgical, ICU and obstetrics, with the Emergency Department staffed by nurses as well. Most drives to work here run about 11 minutes, and the hospital sits within city limits…
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for holiday, call, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load and staffing support handled day to day?
Your fit
On your path
Labor & Delivery has an opening for new graduates. This employer welcomes new graduates for this role. See the posting’s qualifications and orientation details.
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Join our team!
Spanish and Karen bilingual applicants encouraged to apply for any open positions in which you are qualified.
- Reports To: Director of Obstetrical Unit
- Status: 60-72 hours per two week pay period
- Shift: 12 Hours - Nights/Rotating; every third weekend and holiday
- Job
Schedule
Full-time
- Weekly Hours: 30-36
- Remote Position: No
- Pay: Competitive salary
- Incentives: $$ Incentive BONUS or Student Loan Payments available!! $$
Benefits
HRMC offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, sick leave and paid time off. To review your benefit eligibility, visit HRMC Benefits .
New Graduates & Experienced RNs welcome to apply!
Job Summary
The Staff Nurse provides direct nursing care for individual clients with well defined nursing diagnoses. The Staff Nurse communicates with and on behalf of the client and coordinates client care with all health team members. The Staff Nurse organizes those aspects of nursing care for which s/he is accountable in a specified work period.
Demonstrates the mission of HRMC by displaying REACH, our core value system:
- Respectful - We value the unique talents, ideas, contributions, and circumstances of each individual.
- Engaged - We value being active, positive participants at work and in our communities.
- Available - We value providing local access to care for our communities while being present for each other.
- Competent - We value knowledgeable, people-centered, innovative, and technology driven teams.
- Helpful - We value always helping others with kindness and compassion.
Requirements
- Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in South Dakota.
- One year Medical/Surgical experience preferred.
Certifications
BLS - required, ACLS - preferred but not required, NRP - Must obtain within the first 6 months of hire.
- Following a formal orientation, proficiency in the assigned clinical area is expected within six months.
- Cross training is required.
Working Conditions
- Requires frequent walking, standing, sitting, bending, reaching, stooping, kneeling, crouching, feeling, talking, hearing and moderate (exerting/lifting up to 50 pounds occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently, or up to 10 pounds constantly) lifting of clients and equipment.
- Risks exposure to communicable or infectious disease.
- Failure to comply with standards of nursing care of HRMC may result in consequences to continued employment.
- Subject to inside environmental conditions (protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature change) and to atmospheric conditions (one or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: fumes, odors, dust, mists, gases or poor ventilation).
What's around it?
Huron, SDFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 11% below the US average
- Median rent
- $888/mo
- Household income
- $61,452/yr, all local households, not nurse pay