RN - Adult Psychiatry

About the role

Location Address: 8300 Constitution Ave NE Albuquerque, NM 87110-7613. A psychiatric nurse delivers comprehensive behavioral healthcare by assessing mental status, managing psychiatric crises, coordinating interdisciplinary treatment teams, and empowering patients and families through compassionate advocacy and psychoeducation. How You Grow, Learn And Thrive Matters Here.

Responsibilities

Driven by clinical excellence and therapeutic empathy, the Psychiatric Registered Nurse stabilizes acute mental health crises while fostering a safe, therapeutic environment for long-term recovery. By conducting rigorous psychiatric evaluations, managing complex treatment plans, and leading interdisciplinary care teams, the role provides pivotal support to individuals navigating behavioral health challenges. Dedicated to patient advocacy and de-escalation, this position empowers patients and families through targeted psychoeducation, compassionate boundaries, and strict adherence to patient rights. Psychiatric Clinical Resource & Delegation: Directs and delegates patient care assignments to psychiatric technicians, behavioral health aides, and nursing staff based on patient acuity, safety risk levels, and staff capabilities. Direct Care & Crisis Intervention: Maintains clinical competency in direct psychiatric care, conducting mental status assessments, evaluating patient outcomes, executing de-escalation protocols, and dynamically adjusting care plans. Interdisciplinary Care Coordination: Collaborates closely with psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, primary care physicians, families, and community mental health programs to ensure seamless continuity of care. Patient Rights & Ethical Advocacy: Educates patients and families on their legal rights, psychiatric advance directives, and informed consent procedures during admission and ongoing care. Psychoeducation & Skill Building: Assesses learning needs and delivers targeted patient and family teaching on coping strategies, symptom management, and treatment plans using return-demonstration techniques. Safety, Quality & Research Standards: Drives continuous care quality by integrating current psychiatric nursing research, behavioral health guidelines, hospital safety protocols, and clinical equipment proficiency. Milieu Management & Team Cohesiveness: Fosters a safe, therapeutic milieu through clear interprofessional communication, proactive problem-solving, and effective team conflict resolution. Triage & Emergency Response: Performs on-call duties effectively, maintaining strong telephone triage skills to evaluate risk, manage psychiatric emergencies, and coordinate urgent interventions. Specialized Diagnostic Expertise: Directs self-education toward top psychiatric and medical co-morbidities, including depression/anxiety, psychotic disorders, substance dependency, post-surgical care, nutrition, medication compliance, and pain management. Regulatory Supervision & Compliance: Supervises psychiatric aides and ancillary nursing staff in strict adherence to Medicare/Medicaid regulations, state mental health laws, and hospital policies.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in nursing
• New Mexico RN License required
• BLS required

Benefits

• Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
• Fun, engaging wellness program: free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more
• Staff Safety: wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern
• Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
• Malpractice liability insurance
• Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
• EPIC electronic charting system

Pay

Compensation Pay Range: Minimum Offer $39.69 – Maximum Offer $58.17

Schedule

Type of Opportunity: Full time; FTE: 0.90; Job Exempt: No; Work Shift: 12 Hour Nights (United States of America)