Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN Behavioral Health for a travel nursing job in San Leandro, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Behavioral Health
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 12/14/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced and compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) specializing in Behavioral Health/Psychiatric Nursing to join our healthcare team in San Leandro, CA. The ideal candidate will have experience caring for adult patients with complex psychiatric conditions in an inpatient, locked behavioral health setting.
The RN will be responsible for providing safe, effective, and patient-centered care while managing behavioral health emergencies, supporting treatment plans, and maintaining a therapeutic environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive nursing care to adult patients in an inpatient behavioral health setting.
- Care for patients with anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders.
- Monitor and assess patients experiencing suicidal ideation and self-injurious behaviors.
- Implement crisis intervention and behavioral management techniques.
- Apply de-escalation techniques when managing aggressive or assaultive behaviors.
- Administer medications and monitor patient responses to treatment.
- Follow seclusion, physical hold, and emergency restraint protocols.
- Monitor vital signs and blood glucose levels.
- Respond to psychiatric and medical emergencies.
- Collaborate with physicians, social workers, and interdisciplinary healthcare teams.
- Maintain accurate patient records and documentation using Epic EMR.
- Participate in patient and community support activities as required.
Requirements
- Active Registered Nurse (RN) license.
- Current BLS certification.
- CPI certification (or willingness to obtain, as training is provided).
- Minimum 2 years of recent acute psychiatric/behavioral health nursing experience.
- Recent Epic EMR experience within the past year.
- Previous experience working in an inpatient, locked behavioral health unit.
- Experience managing patients with complex psychiatric conditions.
- Strong knowledge of crisis intervention, behavioral management, and de-escalation techniques.
- Previous travel nursing experience required.
- Must be available to work every other weekend.
- Must be flexible to float between Behavioral Health Services, Psychiatric Emergency Department (ED), and other inpatient units as needed.
Quick Offer!
About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Leandro, CA |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.
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