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Employment Type
Part time
Shift
12 Hour Day Shift
Description
Part Time - 24 hours a week
12 hour shifts. The schedule includes working every other weekend and holiday
Our Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit 3-6 is a 30 bed acute care unit providing an interdisciplinary approach to care for emotionally ill adult patients on a voluntary or involuntary status. We care for patients with a wide variety of psychiatric and substance use disorders. Our unit is devoted to individualized care in a safe and secure environment ensuring dignity and respect for all those we serve. Our primary nursing care model develops an individualized plan of care that includes a full range of individual and group sessions, psychotherapies, medications, ECT treatments and other rehab modalities.
Organization Highlights
Pay is based on experience, skills, and education. Exempt positions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will be paid within the base salary equivalent of the stated hourly rates. The pay range may also vary within the stated range based on location.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.
Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.
EOE including disability/veteran
Employment Type
Part time
Shift
12 Hour Day Shift
Description
Part Time - 24 hours a week
12 hour shifts. The schedule includes working every other weekend and holiday
Our Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit 3-6 is a 30 bed acute care unit providing an interdisciplinary approach to care for emotionally ill adult patients on a voluntary or involuntary status. We care for patients with a wide variety of psychiatric and substance use disorders. Our unit is devoted to individualized care in a safe and secure environment ensuring dignity and respect for all those we serve. Our primary nursing care model develops an individualized plan of care that includes a full range of individual and group sessions, psychotherapies, medications, ECT treatments and other rehab modalities.
Organization Highlights
- Only local hospital to receive a Leapfrog A for safety.
- Shared Governance: Unit practice counsel and open-door guiding principle gives all our nurses a voice.
- Professional Relationships: Strong rapport with cardiology and hospitalist physician groups.
- We incorporate a primary care nursing model with a team approach to meet the needs of the patient population
- Advancement: Strong orientation program and generous tuition allowance.
- Work/Life: Predictable patterned scheduling options balance work/life/school calendars.
- We encourage job share opportunities to enhance satisfaction and growth.
- Provide bedside patient care, administer medications, and complete nursing tasks.
- Provide excellent care and practice per clinical services standards of care guidelines.
- Utilizing the Nursing Process, plans, directs and supervises the care of patients in addition to being involved in the provision of direct care of patients and families.
- Participate in precepting and mentoring students and new staff.
- Ensures quality nursing care is rendered to all patients in accordance with the New York Nurse Practice Act, National Standards of Practice, and Nursing and Clinical Service standards of care and practice.
- Utilizing the Nursing Process, plans, directs and supervises the care of patients in addition to being involved in the provision of direct care of patients and families.
- Graduation from an accredited school for Licensed Practical Nursing and current licensure in the State of New York.
- Maintains current BLS/CPR.
- Participates in orientation and continuing education and updates and maintains knowledge and skills related to specific areas of expertise.
- Clinical setting. Exposure Class I
- Medium work: must be able to lift 25 pounds frequently; occasionally lifting maximum of 50 pounds. Will require ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, twist, squat and reach.
- All services, medical staff, patients, visitors, and various regulatory and professional agencies.
- Registered Nurse, Team Leader, Clinical Coordinator, Unit Manager, and Clinical Services/Nursing Administration.
Pay is based on experience, skills, and education. Exempt positions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will be paid within the base salary equivalent of the stated hourly rates. The pay range may also vary within the stated range based on location.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.
Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.
EOE including disability/veteran
Salary : $25 - $36
