RN Psych

Psychiatric Nurse Job Description

We are searching for a sharp-eyed psychiatric nurse to tend to inpatient and outpatient psychiatric cases. A psychiatric nurse should co-create evidence-based protocols, administer prescribed treatment, and report on prominent deviations in patients' symptomology. You should also restrain otherwise uncontrollable patients to protect them.

To ensure success as a psychiatric nurse, you must exercise empathy and resilience. Ultimately, a brilliant psychiatric nurse will continuously hone their psychiatric skillset to bolster their service provision.

Psychiatric Nurse Responsibilities:

• Gauging patients' psychiatric states.
• Collaborating on psychiatric intervention plans.
• Administering psychotropic and similar medications.
• Monitoring adherence to non-medicinal treatment regimens.
• Removing potentially harmful and triggering environmental features.
• Restraining, consoling, and sometimes medicating highly unsettled patients.
• Recording patients' health journeys and reporting on notable alterations.
• Conducting targeted psychoeducation, particularly within families.

Psychiatric Nurse Requirements:

• Associate's or bachelor's degree in nursing, where the latter is preferred.
• Pertinent state licensure.
• PMHNP-BC is preferred.
• Familiarity with cultural perceptions about psychiatric difficulties.
• Well-honed triaging, diagnostic, and clinical judgment capacities.
• Superb interpersonal and collaboration abilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Resilience, immense empathy, and resolution.

Job Types: Travel nursing, Contract, Temporary

Pay: $1,824.57 - $2,266.33 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Physical Setting:

• Hospital

Ability to Commute:

• Scottsbluff, NE 69361 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Scottsbluff, NE 69361: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $1,825 - $2,266