Universal Health Services-posted 4 months ago
Full-time • Entry Level
Memphis, TN
Hospitals

Lakeside Behavioral Health System provides an excellent opportunity for those seeking to be part of a team-oriented and compassionate organization. Our staff tell us that our team is their number one reason for working at Lakeside, although we offer competitive compensation, excellent comprehensive benefits, opportunities for advancement, tuition assistance, and paid time off. Since 1969, Lakeside has been the premier provider of specialized behavioral health and addictive disease services in the Memphis and Mid-South region. The 365-bed facility is one of the largest free-standing psychiatric hospitals in the United States. We are located on a serene 37-acre campus in northeast Shelby County, serving as the setting for the treatment for children, adolescents, young adults, adults, and seniors. Lakeside's comprehensive programs treat disorders such as bipolar disorder, psychological trauma, depression and anxiety, mental illnesses, and addictive disease disorders such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and substance abuse.

  • Provide professional nursing care on a designated unit consistent with the philosophy and objectives of Lakeside Behavioral Health and the ANA Standards of Practice for Psychiatric Mental Health Care.
  • Prescribe, coordinate, and delegate nursing care utilizing the nursing process integrated into the multidisciplinary treatment team plan of care.
  • Accountable for assigned nursing care activities on a shift basis.
  • Promote and enhance professional nursing practice on the unit.
  • Assume Charge Nurse responsibilities as required.
  • Demonstrate flexibility for reassignment to units providing care to varied populations.
  • Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
  • BSN preferred.
  • One-year prior psychiatric experience in mental health nursing preferred.
  • Licensure and registration by the Tennessee Board of Nurse Examiners as a registered nurse.
  • Knowledge of general and psychiatric nursing processes, therapeutic relationships and processes, age-specific growth and development, limit setting, crisis and behavior management, and CPR training.
  • $5000 sign-on payment.
  • Competitive compensation.
  • Excellent comprehensive benefits.
  • Opportunities for advancement.
  • Tuition assistance.
  • Paid time off.
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