Registered Nurse (Behavioral Health Registry)

Quick Facts

• Role: Registered Nurse (Behavioral Health Registry)

• Practice: Inpatient behavioral health nursing care for acutely ill patients

• Focus: Nursing process (assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, evaluation)

• Travel: Required within a designated geographic area

Description

Provide clinically competent, registered professional nursing care to acutely ill patients using the full nursing process. Coordinate and evaluate individualized care plans, document patient responses to interventions, and collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze data; identify expected outcomes; develop and implement an individualized plan of care

• Coordinate care delivery and evaluate progress toward outcome attainment

• Direct care and determine appropriate utilization of any assistant involved in patient care

• Collaborate with patient, family, physicians, and ancillary staff; create and maintain an outcome-focused documented care plan

• Participate in shared governance, committee work, and unit projects

• Evaluate and document responses to nursing interventions; individualize the plan of care based on evaluation findings

• Use best available evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions

Requirements

• BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing); ADN acceptable with commitment to obtain BSN within three years of first day in the clinical nurse role

• Registered Professional Nurse licensure for the state of employment

• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with others

• Strong analytic abilities

• Travel within the designated geographic area

• Preferred: Experience BHS

• Additional requirements for Hospital at Home & Home Health: valid driver’s license and annual driving abstract at hire and annually

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being and protection for unexpected life events (details available via the benefits link).