Staff Nurse - LaSalle Behavioral Health, Dayshift

Good Samaritan•Vincennes, IN

About The Position

The Staff Nurse reports to the Director of the department and is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for an assigned patient population. The nurse leads and collaborates with the healthcare team to promote a high-quality care environment. The role uses shared governance, a professional structural model based on partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership, to support culturally sensitive, interdisciplinary decisions and excellent patient care. The nurse communicates with the multidisciplinary treatment team and performs department-specific behavioral health duties, including medication education, crisis interventions, and recognition of withdrawal symptoms. The role requires familiarity with Indiana mental health legal proceedings, psychiatric disorders, clinical practice guidelines, and the continuum of medical and psychiatric care.

Requirements

Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing.
Hold an Indiana Registered Nurse license issued by the Indiana State Board of Nursing.
Understand Indiana mental health legal proceedings, including confidentiality laws, voluntary admissions, immediate and emergency detention, temporary and regular commitment, revocation of temporary commitment, and duty to warn.
Be knowledgeable about the continuum of care for medical and psychiatric cases.
Understand psychiatric disorders and clinical practice guidelines.
Maintain Crisis Prevention Intervention certification.

Responsibilities

Perform systematic, organized patient assessments to support safe, high-quality outcomes.
Provide direction and collaborate with team members to support a healthy work environment.
Analyze collected data and formulate a plan of care that supports safe, high-quality outcomes.
Implement a plan of care with measurable criteria consistent with performance expectations.
Evaluate the plan of care with the patient and family or support system to maintain patient satisfaction and positive outcomes.
Seek educational resources to maintain and enhance current knowledge and skills.
Apply for a nursing council or committee and participate in at least one council every five years, with 80% attendance in person or by phone.
Communicate information to the multidisciplinary treatment team.
Manage initial and follow-up contacts with LaSalle Behavioral Health's after-hours Emergency Call System.
Conduct medication education groups.
Perform emergency interventions and administer restraint or seclusion according to current standards; maintain Crisis Prevention Intervention certification.
Recognize withdrawal symptoms and provide appropriate interventions.