Registered Nurse Full Time Days

About the role

At Oceans Behavioral Hospital Permian Basin, healing is our focus. We are passionate about helping adults and seniors manage the challenges associated with anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. Utilizing proven, innovative, and progressive therapies, our qualified professionals strive to promote long‑term wellness through a range of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric counseling and treatment options. We offer sponsorships for Registered Nurses.

Responsibilities

• Assume primary leadership accountability and responsibility for milieu management and directing patient‑care activities of other nursing staff.
• Maintain standards of professional nursing practice in accordance with facility policy, external governing bodies, performance‑improvement standards, and psychiatric nursing standards.
• Assess patients using the nursing process, formulate individualized plans of care, implement interventions, and evaluate outcomes.
• Provide safe medication delivery in accordance with policies, physician orders, and current practice.
• Accurately report and document patients’ symptoms, responses, and progress.
• Maintain licensure, pursue professional development, and complete continuing education.
• Utilize the nursing process (assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, evaluation) to develop individualized care plans and treatment modalities.
• Identify risk levels, precautions, and expected outcomes; prescribe and evaluate interventions; conduct ongoing assessments from admission to discharge.
• Initiate medical/psychiatric crisis interventions to stabilize patients.
• Demonstrate knowledge of psychiatric disorders and appropriate nursing interventions.
• Administer medications safely, provide patient education, and recognize adverse drug reactions.
• Demonstrate professionalism, accountability, and sound decision‑making in psychiatric nursing care.
• Review, revise, and update medical records within facility guidelines and timeframes.
• Transcribe and implement physician orders accurately; document care, progress, and response to interventions.
• Communicate client‑care responsibilities, incomplete assignments, and current client needs to staff to assure continuity of care.
• Implement staff assignments and delegate duties using appropriate judgment.
• Assist staff and patients positively; advocate for patient safety and needs.
• Utilize nursing knowledge to meet the needs of the facility, patient population, and staff; employ resources to enhance evidence‑based practice.
• Float among various clinical services as qualified and perform other duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Current, valid, and active license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of employment (compact licenses acceptable).
• Minimum of an Associate Degree in Nursing.
• One year of inpatient hospital experience strongly preferred.

Skills

• Ability to adapt to a high‑stress environment and assess potential for patient escalation.
• Effective oral and written communication skills to achieve positive results with internal and external customers.
• Highly organized with sensitivity to culturally diverse and special‑needs populations (chronically mentally ill, geriatric, developmental disabilities).
• Basic knowledge of normal physical and emotional development.
• Critical‑thinking abilities applied to continuous improvement of patient care.
• Self‑confidence and conceptual thinking for leading and directing others.
• Successful completion of CPR certification and an Oceans‑approved behavioral health de‑escalation program.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (multiple plan options) – eligible first of the month after 30 days.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with discretionary company match.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Daily pay.
• Paid time off.
• Competitive market compensation.
• Short‑term disability and long‑term disability.
• Life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.

Schedule

12‑hour rotating shifts.

Work Environment

Subject to many interruptions and pressure from multiple calls and inquiries. The setting can be high‑paced and stressful; nurses must be able to cope mentally and physically. Staff may encounter disagreeable odors, sights, and unpredictable patient behavior. Approximately 90 % of the time is spent inside a building that offers protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.