Psychiatric Registered Nurse

About the role

Join a mission-driven organization with a people-first culture that offers excellent career growth opportunities. We see hundreds of thousands of unique individuals each month and provide direct clinical care, including lifesaving measures like Narcan. Our team is dedicated to making a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and overlooked individuals.

Responsibilities

• Utilize the nursing process to provide quality patient care by completing assessments, analyzing data, and administering medication according to established standards.
• Respond to psychiatric emergencies, assess for suicide ideation, and manage appropriate risk levels.
• Communicate with healthcare staff regarding patient mental health status, document findings in patient health records, and provide crisis intervention and counseling as required.
• Collaborate with the healthcare team to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
• Coordinate activities of assigned shift, respond to intake area requests, and maintain a clean, safe, and secure working environment.
• Initiate lifesaving measures, identify medical emergencies, and arrange transportation to hospital as needed.
• Participate in interviewing and training new staff and be responsible for evaluating and training direct reports.

Requirements

• Education: Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• Experience: 3+ years’ working in a psychiatric nurse role, previous correctional/detention facility experience, at least two years’ experience providing treatment to adults with various mental health disabilities.
• Licenses/Certifications: Current (and must maintain) unrestricted RN license in state of practice, Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing Certification, current (and must maintain) lifesaving BLS certification through AHA.