Description

Requirements:

• Required: Must be at least 21 years of age.

• Required: Must be licensed as a Registered Nurse

• Required: Must be able to work weekends

The Registered Nurse assesses the mental health needs of the patient and family. The RN develops a nursing diagnosis and plan of care, implements the nursing process, and evaluates it for effectiveness. The nurse provides nursing interventions, medication administration, and management of acute patients as prescribed by the physician, and serves as a Licensed Independent Practitioner during restraint, seclusion, and behavioral crisis interventions. Provides supervision and guidance of direct care workers as charge nurse, assures milieu management and quality delivery of treatment to assigned patients. Provides patient specific treatment, adheres to patient safety standards, assures patient rights, prevents and identifies abuse, and oversees quality of behavioral interventions.

Compensation: Based on experience

Must be able to pass a Drug Test and Background Check

Qualifications

Skills

Required

• Attention to Detail: Intermediate

• Communication: Intermediate

• Leadership: Intermediate

• Safety Minded: Intermediate

• Written Communication: Intermediate

Behaviors

Required

• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group

Education

Preferred

• Associates or better in Nursing/Healthcare

Licenses & Certifications

Preferred

• Reg Nurse

Experience

Preferred

• • Graduation from an accredited school of nursing required. • One or more years’ nursing experience within clinical area of service provided by facility preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)