Psych LPN

Intensive Specialty Hospital; Shreveport (LA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Intensive Specialty Hospital in Shreveport, LA, is hiring a Psych Registered Nurse (RN) to join our LTACH team. The role focuses on psychiatric patient care, assessment, and care planning under the health care team.

You will perform nursing assessments, coordinate with physicians, maintain patient records, and contribute to group therapy activities. A valid LPN/LVN license and mental health experience are preferred; we value compassion and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of practical/vocational nursing.
• Must hold a current state or compact state license and must maintain license renewal in accordance with the standards of the State Board of Nursing
• Mental health experience preferred
• Excellent organizational skills
• Good time management skills and self-directed

Responsibilities

• Utilize nursing knowledge and skills in the safe delivery of patient care through data gathering, planning, and evaluation.
• Provides care based on physical, psycho/social, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the ages of patients served.
• Maintain and coordinate communication effectively and professionally with all patients/significant others, staff, and physicians to ensure a quality patient experience.
• Maintain patient files, records, and other information in a professional manner following policies and procedures regarding documentation
• Adapts to rapid change in a positive manner throughout the day as needs of the unit/department change.
• 50 minutes per day of group therapy at 2:00pm
• Group Notes Documentation
• Nursing Assessments on new admits
• Medication / Lab assistance

Skills

Mental health experience

Organizational skills

Time management

Self-directed

Good judgment

Education

LPN/LVN license

Job description

Life is all about choices…Why choose to work at Intensive Specialty Hospital?

• $7,500 SIGN ON BONUS**
• Night and weekend shift differential, overtime pay
• Tuition reimbursement - get paid to become an LPN or RN
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Flexible Benefit Plan (HSA and FSA)
• Long-Term and Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Critical Illness
• Life Insurance
• $10,000 sign-on bonus for FT employees working 12 hour shifts
• Comfortable staffing ratios
• Flexible scheduling to meet your needs - 12-hour shifts!
• A clean environment and supplies to do your job with excellence
• Employee appreciation events
• A team environment where we treat each other like FAMILY, with respect, dignity and compassion

Intensive Specialty Hospital is a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH). We provide cardiopulmonary care, ventilator and respiratory care, complex wound care, rehabilitation therapies, addiction medicine program, geriatric psychiatry program, multidisciplinary pain program, and outpatient counseling program. With four campuses in Shreveport and Bossier City, we are the largest providers of LTACH services in Northwest Louisiana.

The Psych Registered Nurse (RN)

Psych Registered Nurse (RN) functions as a health care team member. The Psych Registered Nurse (RN) contributes to the assessment of the health status of individuals and groups, participates in the development and modification of the plans of care, implements care strategies within the Psych Registered Nurse (RN) scope of practice, renders safe care, participates in the evaluation of responses to care interventions, delegates activities within the Psych Registered Nurse (RN) scope of practice, and performs additional functions for which the Psych Registered Nurse (RN) has been trained within the professional scope of practice.

Responsibilities:

• Utilize nursing knowledge and skills in the safe delivery of patient care through data gathering, planning, and evaluation.
• Provides care based on physical, psycho/social, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the ages of patients served.
• Maintain and coordinate communication effectively and professionally with all patients/significant others, staff, and physicians to ensure a quality patient experience.
• Maintain patient files, records, and other information in a professional manner following policies and procedures regarding documentation
• Adapts to rapid change in a positive manner throughout the day as needs of the unit/department change.
• 50 minutes per day of group therapy at 2:00pm
• Group Notes Documentation
• Nursing Assessments on new admits
• Medication / Lab assistance

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited school of practical/vocational nursing
• Must hold a current state or compact state license and must maintain license renewal in accordance with the standards of the State Board of Nursing
• Mental health experience preferred
• Excellent organizational skills
• Good time management skills and self-directed
• Demonstrates good judgment, good interpersonal, and delegation skills