Registered Nurse (Psychiatry) (PM Shift)

Aurora San Diego • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

As a Registered Nurse for Aurora Behavioral Healthcare San Diego, you will provide general and psychiatric nursing care to adults with emotional or psychiatric disorders. Your interventions will promote and foster health, assess dysfunction, help patients regain or improve coping abilities, maximize patient strengths, and prevent further disability. Care focuses on psychiatric-mental health patients and includes health promotion and maintenance; monitoring patients and assisting with self-care; monitoring psycho-biological treatment regimens; making triage decisions; and facilitating movement into appropriate services.

The position offers full-time work Tuesday through Saturday from 3:00 P.M. to 11:30 P.M. or part-time work Thursday through Friday from 3:00 P.M. to 11:30 P.M. The stated pay range is $50 to $67 per hour.

Requirements

• Current California Registered Nurse license.
• BLS (Basic Life Support) certification for Healthcare Providers from the American Heart Association.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and critical thinking.
• Basic knowledge of abnormal psychology as typically found in the adult psychiatric population.
• Familiarity with psychopharmacy and the use of psychotropic medications with the adult psychiatric population.
• Problem-solving, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Crisis intervention skills.

Nice To Haves

• Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse (PMHN) qualification is highly preferred.
• Three to five years of RN psychiatric experience is highly preferred.
• Basic teaching and training skills are helpful.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze data about patients’ physical, psychological, self-care, educational, and anticipated discharge-planning needs.
• Develop a comprehensive plan of care to attain expected outcomes, including patient-specific goals and nursing interventions.
• Maintain effective communication with all units and departments.
• Supervise direct patient care as required.
• Carry out medication management responsibilities.
• Conduct patient community meetings.
• Provide input into the discharge-planning process.
• Maintain patient- and unit-related documentation.
• Maintain a safe, orderly, and therapeutic environment for patients.
• Provide general and psychiatric nursing care, including health promotion and maintenance, patient monitoring and self-care assistance, monitoring psycho-biological treatment regimens, triage decisions, and facilitating access to appropriate services.

Benefits

• 401(k) retirement plan
• Health insurance (full-time only)
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Pet insurance
• Healthcare spending account
• Dependent care spending account
• Life insurance, with supplemental life, term, and universal plans also available
• PTO plan
• Holiday premium pay
• PTO cash-out option
• Sick pay
• Short- and long-term disability, with additional buy-in opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• ID theft protection
• Employee appreciation events
• Employee discount opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed