Registered Nurse (Psychiatry) (PM Shift)

Aurora San Diego; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Pet Insurance

HSA/Dependent Care Spending Account

Life Insurance

PTO Plan

Holiday Premium Pay

PTO Cash Out option

Sick Pay

Disability Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

ID Theft Protection

Employee Appreciation Events

Employee Discounts

Job summary

Aurora Behavioral Healthcare San Diego is seeking a Registered Nurse to provide general and psychiatric nursing care to adults with emotional or psychiatric disorders. You will implement interventions to promote health, assess dysfunction, help patients regain coping abilities, maximize strengths, and prevent disability, focusing on psychiatric-mental health care. The role offers PM shift from 3:00 P.M.

to 11:30 P.M. with full-time or part-time status and a pay range of $50 to $67 per hour.

Qualifications

• Must hold a Current California Registered Nurse License.
• BLS (Basic Life Support) Certification for Healthcare Providers - AHA.
• Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse (PMHN) highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collects and analyzes data on patient’s physical, psychological, self-care, education, and discharge needs.
• Develops a care plan with goals and nursing actions for each patient.
• Maintains communication with units and departments; supervises direct patient care as needed.
• Performs medication management responsibilities.
• Leads patient community meetings and contributes to discharge planning.
• Maintains patient and unit documentation; ensures a safe, therapeutic environment.

Skills

Leadership

Critical thinking

Abnormal psychology

Psychopharmacy

Teaching / training

Organizational skills

Time management

Crisis intervention

Education

California RN License

Job description

*Pay Range: $50/hr. to $67/hr.

As a Registered Nurse for Aurora Behavioral Healthcare San Diego, you'll provide general and psychiatric nursing care to adults with emotional or psychiatric disorders. You will provide interventions that: promote and foster health; assess dysfunction; assist patients to regain or improve their coping abilities; maximize patient strengths and prevent further disability. These interventions focus on the psychiatric-mental health patient and include health promotion and health maintenance; monitoring patients and assisting them with self-care activities; monitoring psycho-biological treatment regimens; providing triage decisions and facilitating patient movement into appropriate services.

*Available Shifts:

Full Time and Part Time: PM Shift (3:00 P.M. to 11:30 P.M.),

Responsibilities:

• Collects and analyzes data regarding the patient’s physical, psychological, self-care, educational, and anticipated discharge planning needs
• Develops a comprehensive outline of care to be delivered to attain expected outcomes; includes in this plan, specific goals and interventions delineating nursing actions unique to each patient
• Maintains effective communication with all units and departments
• Supervises direct patient care as required
• Carries out medication management responsibilities
• Conducts patient community meetings
• Provides input into the discharge planning process
• Maintain patient, and unit related documentation
• Maintain a safe, orderly, and therapeutic environment for patients

Skills:

• Demonstrates sound leadership skills and critical thinking
• Basic knowledge of abnormal psychology as typically found in the adult psychiatric population
• The familiarity of Psychopharmacy and the use of psychotropic medications with the adult psychiatric population
• Basic teaching and training skills helpful; problem-solving; organizational and time management; crisis intervention skills

• Current California Registered Nurse License
• BLS (Basic Life Support ) Certification for Healthcare Providers - American Heart Association
• Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse (PMHN) HIGHLY preferred
• 3 to 5 years of RN Psychiatric experience HIGHLY preferred

Full Time

• 401K Retirement Plan
• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Healthcare Spending Account & Dependent Care Spending Account
• Life Insurance (Supplemental Life, Term, and Universal plans are also available.)
• PTO Plan
• Holiday Premium Pay
• PTO Cash Out option
• Sick Pay
• Short and Long-Term Disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• ID Theft Protection

• Employee Appreciation Events

• Employee Discount Opportunities

Part Time

• 401K Retirement Plan
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Healthcare Spending Account & Dependent Care Spending Account
• Life Insurance (Supplemental Life, Term, and Universal plans are also available.)
• PTO Plan
• Holiday Premium Pay
• PTO Cash Out option
• Sick Pay
• Short and Long-Term Disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• ID Theft Protection
• Employee Appreciation Events
• Employee Discount Opportunities