Behavioral Health Admissions RN - Growth Opportunities

Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System; Radcliff (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical, dental, vision

401k with company match

Paid time off

Sign-on bonus

Free meals during shifts

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System in Kentucky seeks an Admissions Nurse to deliver professional nursing care within the treatment milieu for child, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients. You will perform admissions assessments, implement the nursing process, and collaborate with the care team to develop treatment plans.

The role requires graduation from an approved nursing program and current RN licensure in Kentucky; psychiatric nursing experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• Current RN licensure or work permit in the state of Kentucky.
• No experience required; psychiatric nursing preferred.
• Knowledge of family dynamics and coping skills.
• Basic understanding of chemically dependent families.

Responsibilities

• Initiates and completes admission assessment, treatment plan, and nursing admit note.
• Assess, monitors, and records patient condition including physical, behavioral, psychosocial and pain components.
• Reports significant deviations from normal to charge nurse, supervisor or physician.
• Assess, implements, and documents suicide, homicide, elopement, and special precautions according to policy and procedure.

Skills

RN licensure

Psychiatric nursing

Nursing process

Family dynamics knowledge

Crisis intervention knowledge

Education

Graduate of an approved school of nursing

Job description

Responsibilities

Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System is a 140-bed hospital offering inpatient services for adolescents, adults, military, veterans and first responders.Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health Systemhas a spacious cafeteria, gymnasium, art/activity room, group rooms, classrooms and other areas to create a pleasant atmosphere for patients and their families. Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System’s quality services are provided by psychiatrists, licensed therapists, certified alcohol and drug counselors, activity therapists and teachers. Also, care is given by registered nurses 24 hours a day. Since 1986, Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System has been a proven psychiatric care provider in mental health and substance use.

Website: https://www.lincolnbehavioral.com

TheAdmissions Nurseis a key member of the Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System admissionsteam. The Admissions Nurse responsible for providing professional nursing care, using the nursing process, to patients within the treatment milieu (child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric), according to the Standards of Nursing Practice and Care.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Initiates and completes admission assessment, treatment plan, and nursing admit note.
• Assess, monitors, and records patient’s condition including physical, behavioral, psychosocial and pain components.
• Reports significant deviations from normal to charge nurse, supervisor or physician.
• Assess, implements, and documents suicide, homicide, elopement, and special precautions according to policy and procedure.

Benefit & Rewards Highlight

This opportunity provides the following:

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• growth and development opportunities
• competitive compensation
• medical, dental, vision and prescription drug plan
• 401k with company match and discounted stock plan
• generous paid time off
• Retention and Sign on Bonus
• Employee free meals during shifts
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!
• More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website: benefits.uhsguest.com

About Universal Health Services

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) is one of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services. Since our founding in 1979, UHS has grown steadily into a premier Fortune 500® corporation perennially recognized by multiple esteemed national rating entities. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates inpatient acute care facilities, inpatient behavioral health facilities, outpatient and other facilities, nationwide virtual behavioral health services, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services with physical locations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Ireland and United Kingdom. www.uhs.com.

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Qualifications

Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and demonstrates competence in the human stages of growth and development.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing
• Current RN licensure or work permit in the state of Kentucky
• No experience is required; however, psychiatric nursing is preferred
• Must have knowledge of family dynamics, adaptive/mal adaptive coping skills that families use, parenting skills, and ability to work with family systems in effort to resolve conflicts
• Must have basis understanding of chemically dependent families and sources available in communities to provide support to the patient and family.

Licensure/Certification:

CPR Certification

RN Licensure

Knowledge:

Prefer knowledge of crisis intervention and risk assessment, psychiatric diagnoses, basic chemical dependency, age specific growth and development and crisis and behavior management.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands as described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to adjust focus.

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