Registered Nurse Days with 7K Bonus

Duties include:

• Provides clinical oversight to nursing personnel providing nursing services to all patients coming for treatment and/or appropriate referral from other clinics.
• Administer medication and medical treatment in accordance with policies and physician’s orders.
• Provides psychiatric nursing interventions and treatment education, provides intervention appropriate to the specific treatment needs of the patient.
• Coordinate admissions, transfers, and discharges, and assure that relevant nursing documentation is completed in a timely manner.
• Supervises special treatment interventions such as de-escalation, physical restraint, seclusion.
• Able to provide leadership and supervision of direct care staff, delegate responsibilities, make shift assignments, and monitor performance.
• Provides supervision and quality assurance checks to assure patient supervision, environmental safety, therapeutic structure, facilitation of patient groups and activities of daily living, and delivery of quality patient care by direct care workers.
• Provide timely, accurate, and thorough documentation of patient behavior, medication administration, medical interventions, treatment planning, and treatment interventions. Documentation reflects professional standards.
• Knowledge of psychiatric nursing skills, ability to assess patient physical and emotional status. Knowledge of seclusion and restraint protocols, national patient safety standards, age-specific competencies, pain management, and standards established by the Texas Board of Nursing.
• Accurately conveys patient behavior and status verbally and in writing. Professional verbal and written skills for communicating patient status, and treatment needs to clients, families, professionals, and employees of the facility. Able to verbally adapt spoken communication to meet the needs of patients.
• Proficiency in facilitating medication education groups, and training/assisting ADLs. Proficiency with training and oversight of vital signs checks.
• Able to safely de-escalate and manage aggressive patients, to oversee seclusion and physical restraint of patients per policy. Able to handle multiple projects under deadlines with short notice.
• Maintains professional therapeutic relationships with staff, patients, families, and visitors. Able to maintain patient confidentiality.

Requirements

Education/Training:

• Graduate of an accredited school for Registered Nurse program.

Licensure/Certification:

• Current unrestricted Texas Registered Nurse licensure.

Experience:

Prefer 2+ years work experience in a behavioral health setting, hospital, nursing home.

Benefits

• Lucrative Sign On Bonus for Full-Time position (paid out in 4 equal quarterly installments)
• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Healthcare Spending Account
• Dependent Care Spending Account
• PTO Plan with Holiday Premium Pay
• Life Insurance (Supplemental Life, Term, and Universal plans are also available.)
• Short and Long-Term Disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)