Registered Nurse (RN-CN1), Psychiatry Emergency Mental Health Services, Part Time Days, ONA
About the role
UC Medical Center is the pioneering hospital of UC Health, Greater Cincinnati’s academic health system, serving greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky for nearly 200 years. Each year, hundreds of thousands of patients receive care from world‑renowned clinicians and care teams utilizing the most advanced medical knowledge and technology available. The center has 725 licensed beds and more than 5,800 employees.
UC Health is an integrated academic health system serving Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, partnering with the University of Cincinnati to combine clinical expertise, compassion, research, and teaching. Its members include UC Medical Center, West Chester Hospital, University of Cincinnati Physicians, UC Health Ambulatory Services (over 900 board‑certified clinicians and surgeons), Lindner Center of HOPE, and specialized institutes such as the UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute and the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center. Many UC Health locations have earned national recognition for quality and patient satisfaction.
The Emergency Mental Health Services unit (PES) is the only Psychiatric Emergency Room in Southwest Ohio, providing crisis intervention, rapid assessment, phone consultation, medication evaluation and treatment, diagnostic assessment, disposition planning, mobile crisis intervention, and education of emergency providers in the community. A psychiatrist is on site 24/7.
Unit highlights include exposure to a variety of behavioral health diagnoses, opportunities to gain experience in psychiatric emergency services, and a clinical ladder program that offers advancement from a CN 1 nurse through unit projects, providing monetary benefits and career engagement.
Location: Cincinnati, OH, United States.
Responsibilities
The Registered Nurse (RN) holds a current state license to practice nursing and applies specialized knowledge, judgment, and skills to provide care to individuals and groups. The RN uses principles of biological, physical, behavioral, social, and nursing sciences to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care that is culturally based and age‑specific. Responsibilities include preparing, implementing, evaluating, revising, and coordinating interdisciplinary plans of care for each assigned patient in collaboration with the healthcare team and patient/family within unit standards; communicating the plan of care to all involved associates; establishing priorities of care based on patient assessment and needs; giving clear instructions to patients/family and involving