RN - FT Evenings - Adult Behavioral Health Unit - Samaritan Hospital
Location: Samaritan Hospital - Troy, New York
Employment Type: Full time
Shift: Evening Shift
Description:
Our Behavioral Health Unit provides you the opportunity to work with mental health patients. We serve persons who are experiencing a severe psychiatric crisis and in need of an inpatient setting for safety, care, and treatment to stabilize the immediate crisis. Treatment is individualized and quality care is provided that best suits the needs of our patients. There is an emphasis on maintaining safety, medication stabilization, and the development of individualized coping skills in response to the crisis.
You will support your main unit but be cross-trained in all four units. Varying shifts available in the following units:
- Adult Psych Unit - We are a 26 bed Inpatient Adult Psych unit caring for the stabilization of acute symptoms of the psychiatrically impaired population.
- Senior/Geriatric Psych Unit – This is a 20 bed unit addressing the medical and psychiatric needs of aging patients experiencing mental health and substance abuse problems.
- MICA (Mentally Ill/Chemically Addicted) - This unit is a 14 bed unit for drug addiction rehab program to help people suffering from both mental illness and substance abuse.
- CRISIS ER - Crisis is a 6 bed, locked unit within the emergency department for patients evaluated during a mental health crisis.
What you will do:
- Addresses the medical and psychiatric needs of patients experiencing mental health and substance abuse problems.
- Affording all patients and their families with a professional, caring, and safe environment.
- Providing clinical and safety standards in order to ensure the highest quality of patient care.
- The RN is responsible for assessing the needs of each patient where assigned.
- Planning the nursing care needed, including spiritual, emotional, and physiological needs.
- The RN is directly accountable to the Nurse Manager for the quality of patient care delivered.
- The RN modifies and delivers care that is specific to the age, growth, and development of patients according to the unit scope of services.
- When serving in the charge role, the RN is responsible for clinical and leadership functions.
What you will need:
- A NYS License.
- BLS Required.
- Registered Nurses must possess the ability to assess, plan, direct, intervene, and evaluate patient care.
- The RN must be able to communicate effectively, verbally and written.
- 1 year of RN experience preferred.
Pay Range: $36.50 - $49.95
Pay is based on experience, skills, and education.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. We integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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