RN Nights Sign on Bonus
About The Position
Tower Behavioral Health in Reading, Pennsylvania, is expanding and seeking Registered Nurses to join its nursing team. The facility provides inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services to adults, adolescents, and seniors, including counseling and treatment for substance use disorders. It is a state-of-the-art Psych-Safe facility with outdoor courtyards, indoor gymnasiums, and an herb garden. New RN graduates are welcome to apply. The Registered Nurse provides professional nursing care with a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude to foster a supportive and therapeutic environment, recognizing patient safety as a top priority. The position is full-time nights, working three 12-hour shifts and rotating every third weekend. A $10,000 sign-on bonus is offered for the full-time night schedule.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
- Current RN license as required by the state.
- CPR certification 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.
- First aid, if required by state or facility requirements.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients’ physical and behavioral health needs; develop and implement nursing care plans; maintain medical records; and educate patients and families about physical and behavioral health conditions.
- Provide nursing care and services within applicable nursing practice standards, state Nurse Practice Act regulations, and facility and corporate policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Ensure verbal physician orders are legible when transcribed and are handled 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, 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 responses to medication.
- 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 counts on required records.
- Complete admission and discharge processes efficiently and accurately as directed.
- Maintain therapeutic rapport and professional boundaries with patients, including respect for personal space, direct attention, and 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 the full-time night shift schedule.
- 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 nursing staff trainings.
- 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
