Registered Nurse (RN) - Days
About The Position
Tower Behavioral Health in Reading, Pennsylvania, is seeking Registered Nurses to provide professional nursing care to patients in a supportive and therapeutic environment. The facility serves adults, adolescents, and seniors through inpatient and outpatient programs, counseling, substance use disorder treatment, and other services. New RN graduates are welcome to apply. The role involves assessing patients’ physical and behavioral health needs, developing and implementing nursing care plans, maintaining medical records, educating patients and families, administering medications, and coordinating with physicians and other members of the care team. Patient safety, therapeutic communication, professional boundaries, and compliance with nursing standards and facility policies are central to the position. Full-time schedules are available for day or night shifts, consisting of three 12-hour shifts and an every-third-weekend rotation. A $10,000 sign-on bonus is offered for the full-time day or night schedule. Compensation is listed as $41–$50 per hour, including shift differential.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
- Current RN license as required by the state.
- CPR and de-escalation and restraint certification; training is available upon hire and offered by the facility.
Nice To Haves
- One or more years of nursing experience in the clinical area served by the facility.
- New RN graduates are welcome to apply.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients’ physical and behavioral health needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, maintain medical records, and educate patients and families about health conditions.
- Provide nursing care within the standards and scope of practice defined by state regulations and applicable facility and corporate policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Ensure verbally received physician orders are legible and transcribed according to policy and procedure.
- Assess patient status on an ongoing basis, gather pertinent information, and document findings.
- Collaborate with others to meet patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age-related, developmental, and cultural needs, and acknowledge and work to resolve customer complaints.
- Notify physicians about significant changes in patient status, including detox difficulties, medical emergencies, or medication-related changes.
- Ensure nursing treatment plans address assessed needs and complete the initial treatment plan upon admission.
- Use universal precautions when providing direct patient care.
- Administer medications accurately as ordered and document controlled-substance medication counts on required documents.
- Complete admission and discharge processes efficiently and accurately as directed.
- Maintain therapeutic rapport by observing professional boundaries, respecting personal space, giving patients direct attention, and maintaining rational detachment.
- Provide direction or coordinate unit activities as directed.
- Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patients, visitors, coworkers, and others involved in patient treatment.
- Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.
Benefits
- $10,000 sign-on bonus for full-time day or night shift schedules.
- Flexible scheduling.
- Competitive pay rates with shift differentials for all shifts.
- Career advancement opportunities.
- Tuition assistance.
- Employee referral bonus.
- Shift incentives.
- Access to Tower Health physicians.
- Monthly in-person and online trainings to increase nursing staff skills.
- Monthly Healthstream modules.
- On-site Crisis Prevention Institute Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training.
- In-house CPR training.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Acadia Healthcare 401(k) plan.
- Overtime pay.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
