Registered Nurse Adult Psych Acute Care

Prime Healthcare•Kansas City, MO

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Make a meaningful impact every day. As a Behavioral Health Registered Nurse. In this role, you'll provide compassionate, hands-on care to patients with acute mental health needs in a dynamic inpatient behavioral health setting. Working alongside an interdisciplinary care team, you'll play a key role in promoting patient safety, stabilization, and recovery.

Requirements

Current and valid State license as a Registered Nurse.
Current BLS certificate upon hire and maintain current.
Working knowledge of Mental Health Laws and practice standards.
Working knowledge of interdisciplinary treatment team process, behavioral health programming and daily nursing functions for inpatient and outpatient behavioral health units.
Working knowledge of the continuum of care for behavioral health care.

Responsibilities

Provide direct nursing care to patients with acute mental and behavioral health needs in an inpatient setting
Observe, monitor, and document patient behavior, mental status, and safety risks
Assist with crisis intervention and de-escalation to promote unit safety
Collaborate with RNs, providers, and the interdisciplinary care team to treat and educate patients about mental and medical conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and/or family members
Help manage therapeutic groups, psychiatric crisis intervention, seclusion and restraint of patients.
Record patients medical histories and symptoms, and help to perform diagnostic tests and analyze results
Administer treatment and medications, and help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation.
Consult patients and their families on how to manage illness or injury, diet and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and physical therapy.