Registered Nurse PRN Days

About the role

Oceans Behavioral Hospital Katy focuses on healing adults and seniors dealing with anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. Using proven, innovative, and progressive therapies, the facility offers inpatient and outpatient psychiatric counseling and treatment. The Registered Nurse provides primary leadership for milieu management and directs patient‑care activities of other nursing staff while maintaining professional nursing standards.

We offer sponsorships for Registered Nurses.

Responsibilities

• 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, including discharge planning.
• Conduct ongoing assessments from admission to discharge and initiate medical/psychiatric crisis interventions as needed.
• Demonstrate knowledge of psychiatric disorders and implement appropriate nursing interventions.
• Administer medications safely, provide patient education on medications, and recognize adverse drug reactions.
• Maintain professionalism, accountability, and quality nursing care in psychiatric settings.
• Review, revise, and update medical records promptly; transcribe and implement physician orders accurately.
• Document patient symptoms, responses, progress, and care interventions thoroughly and concisely.
• Communicate client care responsibilities, incomplete assignments, and current needs to staff to ensure continuity of care.
• Assign staff and delegate duties using sound judgment; assist staff and patients and advocate for patient safety.
• Utilize nursing resources to enhance evidence‑based practice and float among various clinical services as needed.
• Complete additional duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

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

Qualifications and Skills

• Ability to adapt to a high‑stress environment and assess potential 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.

Work Environment

• Subject to frequent interruptions, multiple calls, and inquiries.
• 12‑hour rotating shifts in a high‑pace, stressful setting.
• Potential exposure to disagreeable odors, sights, and unpredictable patient behavior.
• Approximately 90% of time spent inside a building that protects from weather but not necessarily from temperature changes.