Mental Health Registered Nurse - Oregon State Hospital Junction City Campus
About The Position
The Oregon State Hospital, a division of the Oregon Health Authority, is seeking Registered Nurses to join an excellent team at its Junction City Campus. This role involves providing nursing care to individuals residing in a forensic psychiatric facility, with the goal of helping them recover from illness and return to their lives in the community. Key responsibilities include administering medications, developing nursing plans of care, completing assessments, and responding to emergent psychiatric situations that could potentially be dangerous. Additionally, the nurse will monitor staff work assignments and supervise staff to ensure a therapeutic, safe, and secure milieu.
Requirements
- Must possess and maintain a valid and unencumbered Oregon Professional Registered Nurse license during the entire length of their employment
- Satisfactorily pass a pre-employment drug test (contingent upon employment offer)
- Pass an abuse check, criminal records check and driving records check (contingent upon employment offer)
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in mental health
- Experience in conflict and crisis management
- Strong leadership skills
- Experience in milieu management
- Ability to manage multiple job responsibilities at one time
Responsibilities
- Provide nursing care to individuals currently residing in the Oregon State Hospital
- Administer medications as ordered by the provider
- Develop nursing plans of care
- Complete assessments
- Respond to emergent psychiatric situations that could potentially be dangerous
- Monitor staff work assignments
- Supervise staff to provide therapeutic, safe, and secure milieu
Benefits
- Excellent medical, vision, and dental benefits package for the employee and qualified family members with a very low monthly out-of-pocket cost
- Optional life insurance
- Optional short-term disability
- Optional long-term disability
- Optional deferred compensation savings program
- Optional flexible spending accounts for health care and childcare expenses
- 11 paid holidays
- 3 personal business days
- 8 hours of monthly sick leave
- Vacation accrual starting at 8 hours per month
- Possible eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
- Membership in the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)/ Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan (OPSRP)
- Training opportunities that will help grow your career with the State of Oregon
- Educational incentives: Bachelor’s degree +4.75% base rate
- Educational incentives: Master’s degree + 9.5% base rate
- Educational incentives: Doctorate degree +12% base rate
- Shift incentives for Weekends, Evenings, Nights
- Specialty differentials for additional continuing education
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
