Registered Nurse (Psychiatry) (NOC Shift)
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. Care interventions promote and foster health, assess dysfunction, help patients regain or improve coping abilities, maximize patient strengths, and prevent further disability. The role focuses on psychiatric-mental health patients and includes health promotion and maintenance, monitoring patients and assisting with self-care activities, monitoring psycho-biological treatment regimens, making triage decisions, and facilitating movement into appropriate services. Available schedules are full-time Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 P.M. to 7:30 A.M., or part-time Thursday through Friday, 11:00 P.M. to 7:30 A.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.
- Demonstrate sound leadership skills and critical thinking.
- Basic knowledge of abnormal psychology as typically found in the adult psychiatric population.
- Familiarity with psychopharmacy and use of psychotropic medications with the adult psychiatric population.
- Basic teaching and training skills are helpful, along with problem-solving, organizational and time-management, and 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.
Responsibilities
- Collect and analyze data regarding 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.
- Monitor patients and assist them with self-care activities.
- Monitor psycho-biological treatment regimens, make triage decisions, and facilitate patient movement into appropriate services.
Benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Health insurance (full-time only)
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Pet insurance
- Healthcare spending account and 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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