Psych Registered Nurse - $10k SIGN ON

TrustPoint Hospital•Murfreesboro, TN

5d•Onsite

About The Position

TrustPoint Hospital is hiring a Psychiatric Registered Nurse (RN) to provide care to adolescent and adult patients across inpatient psychiatric and physical rehabilitation settings. The nurse collaborates with a multidisciplinary team, contributes to treatment plans, administers medications, monitors patient progress, and supports patients’ comfort, safety, and well-being. TrustPoint serves adolescents ages 10–17 and adults ages 18 and older across specialties including adolescent, adult thought and mood disorders, child, geriatric, IDD, physical rehabilitation and medicine, ECT, and PHP. The role includes interacting with patients and families, treatment planning, completing shift reports, rounding and monitoring in the milieu, medication administration, coordinating with behavioral health associates, following up on incidents, completing nursing assessments, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Positions are available on full-time, part-time, and PRN schedules, with day or night shifts and rotating weekends. TrustPoint Hospital is located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and provides rehabilitation, medical psychiatry, and inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services. The hospital describes itself as a state-of-the-art facility with opportunities for nurses to develop skills across different specialties and patient populations.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
Current Registered Nurse (RN) license as required by the state of employment, or eligibility to practice nursing in accordance with state requirements.
One year of nursing experience.
CPR certification.
De-escalation and restraint certification; training is available upon hire and offered by the facility.

Nice To Haves

Previous psychiatric, mental health, behavioral health, or substance-use nursing experience.
First aid, if required by state or facility requirements.

Responsibilities

Provide and coordinate care by assessing patients’ physical and behavioral health needs.
Develop and implement nursing care plans specific to assessed needs.
Maintain medical records and educate patients and their families about physical and behavioral health conditions.
Provide nursing care within applicable standards and scope of practice, Nurse Practice Act regulations, and facility and corporate policies and procedures.
Ensure verbal physicians’ orders are legible and transcribed according to policy and procedure.
Assess patients’ status on an ongoing basis and gather and document pertinent information.
Notify physicians of significant changes in patient status, including detox difficulties, medical emergencies, medication responses, and related challenges.
Demonstrate knowledge and use of universal precautions when providing direct patient care.
Administer medications accurately according to orders.
Document controlled-substance medication counts on required documents.
Complete admission and discharge processing efficiently and accurately.
Maintain therapeutic rapport and professional boundaries with patients.
Provide direction or coordinate unit activities as directed.
Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patients, visitors, coworkers, and others involved in inpatient treatment.
Interact with patients and families, complete shift reports, round and monitor the milieu, coordinate with behavioral health associates, follow up on incidents, and complete nursing assessments.