Acute Psych Registered Nurse (FT Nights)
Facility: St. John's Hospital
Location: US-KS-Leavenworth
ID: 2024-174919
Category: RN
Position Type: Full Time
Shift: Nights
Job Type: Non-Exempt
Overview
Sign-on bonus of $20,000!! This is a Full-time Night Shift!
As the state's first private hospital, Saint John Hospital is a full-service, community hospital in Leavenworth, Kansas. It has garnered five stars from Healthgrades for its treatment of sepsis, and it consistently receives the highest accolades for health care quality and safety. The hospital offers innovative medical care, employs excellent doctors, and has a compassionate staff that offers a 24/7 emergency room, outpatient surgical services, primary care clinic, intensive care unit, and skilled nursing care unit. The hospital also carries on the legacy of the Leavenworth sisters and will continue to deliver exceptional care to the surrounding community.
We are committed to providing Outstanding Benefits to our employees. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- Outstanding Medical Benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off
- 401k
- and so much more...
Come Join a Team of dedicated Healthcare Workers!!!
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to veteran status, disability, race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristics. If you need special accommodation for the application process, please contact Human Resources. Know Your Rights: Know Your Rights
Responsibilities
Behavioral Health registered nurses (RNs) perform basic duties that include treating patients, educating patients about mental and medical conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients' and/or family members, running therapeutic groups, psychiatric crisis intervention, seclusion and restraint of patients. RNs record patients' medical histories and symptoms, help to perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operate medical machinery, administer treatment and medications, and help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation. RNs teach patients and their families how to manage their illness or injury, diet and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and physical therapy. Other related duties include:
- Following the doctor's orders and treatment plans
- Collaborating with other medical professionals
- Administering medications and monitoring responses to medication
- Conducting screenings and evaluations and monitoring patients
- Educating patients and family members
- Communicating with other care team members
- Documenting all treatments, medications and other patient care aspects in medical records
- Responding to emergency psychiatric situations
Qualifications
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING
- Must have current and valid State license as a Registered Nurse.
- Current BLS certificate upon hire and maintain current.
- Working knowledge of Mental Health Laws and practice standards.
- Working knowledge of interdisciplinary treatment team process, behavioral health programming and daily nursing functions for inpatient and outpatient behavioral health units.
- Working knowledge of the continuum of care for behavioral health care.
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