Buyer

Sinai Chicago; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

PTO

403b with matching contributions

CE courses offered

Tuition Reimbursement

Clinical Ladder

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Chicago is seeking a Registered Nurse for its Psychiatry Department. The role involves providing individualized care within a multi-disciplinary team, focusing on the mental health of adult patients. Candidates must have a valid nursing license in Illinois and a BLS certification, along with at least one year of psychiatric nursing experience. The position offers competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, and tuition reimbursement.

Qualifications

• Must have 1 year of psychiatric nursing experience.
• Current Illinois Registered Professional Nurse license is required.
• A valid American Heart Association BLS Card is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized nursing care for patients in the psychiatric unit.
• Participate in discharge planning and necessary referrals.
• Implement physician and nursing orders appropriately.

Skills

Psychiatric nursing experience

BLS Certification

Interpersonal skills

Patient care

Education

Registered Professional Nurse license in Illinois

Job description

Located on Chicago’s West and Southwest Side, Sinai Health System is comprised of Mount Sinai Hospital, Holy Cross Hospital, Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, Sinai Children’s Hospital, Sinai Community Institute, Sinai Medical Group, and Sinai Urban Health Institute.

The entities of Sinai Health System collectively deliver a full range of quality inpatient and outpatient services, as well as a large number of innovative, community-based health, research and social service programs. We focus our collective depth of expertise and passion to improve the health of the 1.5 million people who live in our diverse service area. With our team of dedicated caregivers, Sinai Health System is committed to building stronger, healthier communities.

Registered Nurse - Psychiatry Department

• The Albert J. Lurie Psychiatric Unit (6 East) is a 28-bed adult inpatient acute psychiatric unit for patients 18 years of age and older admitted voluntarily or involuntarily with a primary diagnosis of acute mental illness and present as a danger to self and/or others. The most common psychiatric diagnoses we treat include depression, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar affect disorder.
• We provide our patients with a safe and therapeutic treatment environment. We reintegrate patients into the community in the safest and most appropriate setting and with links to the most appropriate outpatient treatment resources. Services we offer include multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment, psychotropic medication management, group activities, activities of daily living, therapeutic milieu, electroconvulsive treatment and linkage to outpatient services.
• Multi-disciplinary treatment involves a medical director, attending psychiatrists, internist, advance practice nurses, registered nurses, mental health workers, unit secretaries, occupational therapist, activities coordinator, Thresholds hospital liaison staff, patient care coordinator and unit director.

General Summary

• Provides nursing care by individualizing interventions for patients with problems of
• routine nature
• Utilizing the nursing process, identifies complex variables and inter-relationships of the assessment data
• Participates in discharge planning needs into plan for care and initiates processes to obtain necessary referrals to assist patient / family and expedite discharge
• Implement physician and nursing orders as appropriate involving patient, family and significant others
• Medical / Dental / Vision
• PTO
• 403 b with matching contributions
• CE courses offered
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Clinical Ladder
• 1 Year of Psych Nursing Experience (Required).
• Currently licensed as a Registered Professional Nurse in the State of Illinois.
• Current BLS Card (Required American Heart Association)