Position Title: Registered Nurse
Location: San Diego, CA 92110
Pay: $104.79/hr.
Assignment duration: 13-week contract (Possible extension)
Schedule: 7 AM - 7:30 PM or 7 PM - 7:30 AM (PRN role, based on client needs)
Key Responsibilities
Provide psychiatric healthcare, evaluation, crisis intervention, and acute treatments to adult mentally ill patients
Ensures continuity of psychiatric care through provisions of services including discharge and referral
Triages healthcare situations to determine needed level of intervention in crises
Verifies and carries out prescriber orders
Records changes in medications, laboratory tests, and prescriber recommendations
Communicates current psychiatric medication orders, missed medications or other pertinent psychiatric information with clients, prescribers and nursing staff, clinicians, and family members as appropriate
Administers medications, including injections, and educates clients regarding medications (risks, benefits, and side effects and medication compliance)
Qualifications:
Active California Registered Nurse License.
At least 1 year of inpatient psychiatry experience.
Active BLS certification.
CPI Certification preferred