Registered Nurse - PRN-CRESTHAVEN-OUT PATIENT

UHS•Bartlett, TN

9h•Onsite

About The Position

Lakeside Behavioral Health System offers an excellent opportunity to join a team-oriented and compassionate organization. Since 1969, Lakeside has been the premier provider of specialized behavioral health and addictive disease services in the Memphis and Mid-South region. The 365-bed facility is one of the largest free-standing psychiatric hospitals in the United States, located on a serene 37-acre campus. Lakeside provides comprehensive programs for children, adolescents, young adults, adults, and seniors, treating disorders such as bipolar disorder, psychological trauma, depression, anxiety, mental illnesses, and addictive disease disorders like alcoholism, drug addiction, and substance abuse. The Registered Nurse provides professional nursing care on a designated unit, adhering to the philosophy and objectives of Lakeside Behavioral Health and the ANA Standards of Practice for Psychiatric Mental Health Care. This role involves prescribing, coordinating, and delegating nursing care using the nursing process, integrated into the multidisciplinary treatment team plan. The Registered Nurse is accountable for assigned nursing care activities on a shift basis, responsible for promoting and enhancing professional nursing practice, and may assume Charge Nurse responsibilities. Staff must be flexible for reassignment to units caring for varied populations.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited nursing program
Licensure and registration by the Tennessee Board of Nurse Examiners as a registered nurse
Must possess knowledge of general and psychiatric nursing processes, therapeutic relationships and processes, age specific growth and development, limit setting, crisis and behavior management and CPR training

Nice To Haves

BSN preferred
One-year prior psychiatric experience in mental health nursing preferred

Responsibilities

Provides professional nursing care on a designated unit in a manner consistent with the philosophy and objectives of Lakeside Behavioral Health and the ANA Standards of Practice for Psychiatric Mental Health Care
Prescribes, coordinates and delegates nursing care utilizing the nursing process that is integrated into the multidisciplinary treatment team plan of care
Accountable for assigned nursing care activities on a shift basis
Responsible for promoting and enhancing professional nursing practice on the unit
May also assume Charge Nurse responsibilities as required
Demonstrate flexibility for reassignment to units providing care to varied populations