Registered Nurse RN Days

About the role

Oceans Healthcare will expand behavioral health services in Jackson. Oceans Behavioral Hospital of Jackson, a 77‑bed facility will expand inpatient capacity for adult and senior behavioral health patients and add new services, including an intensive outpatient program. The freestanding hospital will be located on the St. Dominic's campus.

Responsibilities

• Assumes primary leadership accountability and responsibility for milieu management and directing patient care activities of other nursing staff.
• Maintains standards of professional nursing practice in accordance with facility policy, external governing bodies, performance improvement standards, and psychiatric nursing standards.
• Assesses patients using the nursing process to formulate individualized plans of care, implements interventions, and evaluates outcomes.
• Interprets age/disability specific information for the client population served.
• Provides safe delivery of medication per policies, physician orders, and current practice.
• Ensures thorough, accurate reporting and documentation of patient symptoms, responses, and progress.
• Assumes responsibility for professional development, continuing education, and maintaining licensure.
• Utilizes the nursing process: assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, evaluation; formulates nursing interventions toward individualized plan of care.
• Identifies risk levels, precautions, expected outcomes; prescribes interventions; evaluates effectiveness; conducts ongoing assessment; initiates crisis intervention.
• Demonstrates knowledge of psychiatric disorders and appropriate nursing interventions; implements interventions per plan of care.
• Applies interventions to progress patient toward wellness and maintain wellness.
• Administers medications safely; provides medication education; recognizes adverse drug reactions.
• Demonstrates professionalism, accountability, responsibility for decision making, quality care, and psychiatric nursing knowledge base.
• Reviews, revises, updates medical records per facility guidelines and timeframes.
• Transcribes and implements physician orders; documents care, progress, response accurately.
• Follows up on client care responsibilities, communicates incomplete assignments and current needs to staff for continuity.
• Implements staff assignments and delegation using appropriate judgment; assists staff and patients; advocates for patient needs/safety.
• Utilizes nursing knowledge and resources to meet facility, patient, and staff needs; enhances evidence‑based practice.
• Floats among various clinical services as qualified; performs other duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

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

Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, 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, Long Term Disability.
• Life Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.

Schedule

12‑hour rotating shifts.