Psych Nurse - PRN

Responsibilities

Registered Nurse (RN) PRN 

Peachford Hospital is a 246-bed, acute care psychiatric hospital located in the well-established North Atlanta Dunwoody neighborhood.  Peachford features individual units for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors, and offers inpatient acute care, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs.  Nearly 10,000 patients receive compassionate care from our health care team each year and Peachford has been providing compassionate care since 1973.

We are recruiting skilled and compassionate Registered Nurse applicants – RN – to work PRN accross the hospital. A variety of evening, night and weekend shift options are available.   PRN RNs at Peachford are required to work four shifts per month, one of which needs to be a weekend. 

What do our nurses value at Peachford?

An environment that puts patient care first.  One of the most rewarding aspects of working as a Registered Nurse (RN) is providing excellent care, comfort, and security to the patients and families you treat, at their most vulnerable times.  Supportive and responsive leadership.  You are never alone, as you are part of a large network of peer nurses and nursing leaders that routinely exchange ideas and review current topics within the industry.  Having the opportunity to grow, learn, and advance in your career. 

A Registered Nurse (RN) at Peachford delivers quality nursing care to patients with a variety of psychiatric, behavioral and addictive disease diagnoses.  Our Nurses develop interdisciplinary treatment plans and monitor each patient’s progress toward those goals. RNs administer medications in a safe, accurate, and timely manner. Nurses communicate changes in patient’s status with physicians while playing a pivotal role in patient and family education.  And above all else, our RNs pledge to keep our patients safe.

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We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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Qualifications

Registered Nurse (RN) Job Requirements:

• Current license to practice nursing in Georgia
• PRN Nurses should have at least one year of previous psychiatric experience either as a nurse or other role in behavioral health