Registered Nurse - Inpatient Behavioral Health - Per Diem Night Shift

Hour Requirements: 72 hours over a 6-week schedule (minimum of 12 hours per week). Minimum of 48 hours during a 4-week schedule. Shift length is 12 hours.

Weekend Requirements: Two 12-hour shifts per 6-week schedule. Holiday Requirements: 1 summer holiday and 1 winter holiday. Initial training is during the day.

About the Role

Our Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit 3-6 is a 30-bed acute care unit providing an interdisciplinary approach to care for emotionally ill adult patients on a voluntary or involuntary status. We care for patients with a wide variety of psychiatric and substance use disorders. Our unit is devoted to individualized care in a safe and secure environment, ensuring dignity and respect for all those we serve. Our primary nursing care model develops an individualized plan of care that includes a full range of individual and group sessions, psychotherapies, medications, ECT treatments, and other rehabilitation modalities.

What You Will Do:

• Crisis intervention and therapeutic nursing interventions, hands-on skills, patient education, goal setting, critical thinking, and care planning.
• Care for and provide treatment modalities.
• Collaborative team approach with social work, psychiatrists, clinical affiliates, and unit support staff.

Responsibilities

• Ensures quality nursing care is rendered to all patients in accordance with the New York Nurse Practice Act, National Standards of Practice, and Nursing and Clinical Service standards of care and practice.
• Utilizing the Nursing Process, plans, directs, and supervises the care of patients in addition to being involved in the provision of direct care of patients and families.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing and current licensure, or eligibility for licensure, in the State of New York.
• Minimum of one year of experience in a related field.
• Maintains current BLS/CPR certification.
• Participates in orientation and continuing education and updates and maintains knowledge and skills related to specific areas of expertise.

Career Path

• Clinical ladder advancement with experience, staff engagement, and national certification.
• Career advancement to leadership roles as team leader, preceptor, mentor, or coordinator/management.

Work Environment and Hazards

Clinical setting. Exposure Class I.

Physical Demands

Medium work: must be able to lift 25 pounds frequently; occasionally lift a maximum of 50 pounds. Requires the ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, twist, squat, and reach.

Work Contact Group: All services, medical staff, patients, visitors, and various regulatory and professional agencies. Supervised by Team Leader, Clinical Coordinator, Unit Manager, and Clinical Services/Nursing Administration.

Pay

Pay Range: $38.70 - $48.65 per hour, based on experience, skills, and education. Exempt positions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will be paid within the base salary equivalent of the stated hourly rates. The pay range may also vary within the stated range based on location.