Mental Health Nurse

About the role

Join the Medical team at the Texas Civil Commitment Center (TCCC) in Littlefield, Texas, where compassionate, clinically strong professionals support residents in a secure treatment setting. As a Mental Health RN, you’ll partner with an interdisciplinary care team to provide skilled nursing care, support treatment planning, and help make a difference every day.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive patient assessments including psychosocial evaluation.
• Develop individual nursing care plans and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for patient care, revising plans as necessary.
• Read, understand and implement psychiatrist’s orders.
• Facilitate communication with psychiatrist for medication and treatment orders, responding to emergencies as required.
• Provide crisis intervention and management for patients experiencing acute disturbances.
• Coordinate scheduling for mental health providers and psychiatrists.
• Aid psychiatrist in patient examinations and treatment procedures.
• Administer medication in accordance with policies and procedures, documenting treatments comprehensively.
• Educate individuals with mental illness on medication benefits and potential side effects, particularly psychotropic medications.
• Continuously assess patient conditions, documenting observations related to mental status, physical health, and medication responses in electronic medical record.
• Demonstrate proficiency in providing care for patients with various psychiatric conditions and behaviors, ensuring their safety and well-being.
• Apply knowledge of psychiatric disorders in planning nursing care strategies.
• Maintain cleanliness and sanitation standards in adherence to infection control practices.
• Practice cost containment and utilization management for patient care and facility operations.
• Ensure strict security and confidentiality of all medical records in compliance with HIPAA regulations.
• Review medical files to verify accurate documentation of provided services.
• Closely monitor all potential severe illnesses in patients in care.
• Comply with all applicable pharmacy laws, especially those covering controlled substances.
• Assess, identify and document high-risk symptoms/behaviors in patient, such as risk for harm to self or others.
• Provide health counseling and education to individuals or groups as required.
• Safeguard medical unit for items that could be used as contraband by clients; securely store or safely dispose of supplies and equipment.
• Control medication, syringes, or other medical supplies.
• Perform work on an on-call basis, as required.
• Prepare and maintain narrative, statistical, summary, and operational records, reports and logs.
• Aid corporate counsel with responses to client litigation matters.
• Actively participate in staff meetings; to facilitate effective communication of relevant information within the medical/mental health unit.
• Prepare and disseminate safety and accident reports as required by policies and procedures; take appropriate action in cases of serious and unusual incidents and emergencies.
• Properly document medical and mental health care.
• Initiate and complete investigations and inquiries with accuracy, as directed, gather information and evidence, interview and obtain statements; exercise independent judgment by determining when probable cause exists to recommend disciplinary action.
• Perform emergency response duties, including basic medical aid, and evacuating individuals from hazardous situations.
• Interpret and apply an extensive variety of medical and technical instructions and documents.
• Read, analyze, comprehend and interpret medical and technical procedures, governmental regulations, legal and non-legal documents, including the processing of such documents as medical instructions, commitment orders, summons and other legal writs.
• Promote positive social skills development through modeling appropriate behaviors and intervening when behavioral issues when necessary.

Requirements

• Degree in nursing, current, valid nursing RN license in the state of Texas or a compact state.
• Must possess current CPR certification.
• Must work within Texas state board of nursing scope of practice.
• Valid driver’s license in the state of with an acceptable driving record required, unless waived by management.

Benefits

• Includes Medical, Vision, Dental, and Prescription Drug Benefits.
• Life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (AD&D).
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Benefit.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Paid Time Off (PTO).
• Paid Holidays.

Pay

$40 per hour + $5,000 Hiring Bonus

Schedule

Full-time, day shift