Overview

Shift Type: Days and Nights

Schedule: FT and PT

Ascension Saint Thomas Behavioral Health Hospital is Nashville's Leading behavioral health treatment center and is a 90-bed adult (18 ) inpatient psychiatric hospital that provides a full continuum of behavioral health treatment services for adults and senior adults.

Our Mission: The mission of Acadia Healthcare is to maintain our standing as a world-class organization that sets the standard for excellence in the treatment of behavioral health and addiction concerns. In all that we do, we strive to make our services synonymous with clinically excellent care and an unparalleled commitment to our patients, our staff, our communities, and the professionals with whom we collaborate. 

Day in the life of an LPN:

As an LPN at Ascension Saint Thomas Behavioral, your day-to-day will consist of assessments and treatment plans, completing shift reports, rounding in the milieu, monitoring the milieu, medication administration, checking in with BHAs, following up on incidents, ensuring regulatory compliance, etc.

Population: Adults 18-64 and Seniors 65 and older

Schedule:We have full and part-time staff LPN positions available for day and night shifts. Shifts are 12 hours, 3 days per week with shift differentials available. All full-time LPNs rotate weekends.

What we look for: 

• Empathy and Compassion: Exceptional psych LPNs have a deep sense of empathy and compassion for their patients.
• Strong Communication Skills: Effective communication is crucial in psychiatric nursing. Great psych LPNs are skilled at active listening, as they need to understand their patients' thoughts, feelings, and concerns. 
• Continuous Learning: The field of mental health is constantly evolving, and exceptional psych LPNs embrace a mindset of continuous learning.
• Advocacy: Great psych LPNs are strong advocates for their patients.
• Patience and Resilience: Mental health recovery can be a long and challenging journey, requiring patience and resilience from both patients and nurses.

What we can offer YOU: 

• Shift diffs up to $4.75 per hour
• Competitive hourly rate!
• Retention Bonus Program
• Employee EAP Program
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Acadia Healthcare 401(k) plan
• Excellent psychiatric training program
• Professional growth opportunity that is second to none in the industry. Join a team with defined career paths and a national family of hospitals and facilities.

PURPOSE STATEMENT:

Provide nursing care and services within the standards and scope of nursing practice, as defined within the state Nurse Practice Act regulations, policies, procedures and protocols, as well as facility and corporate policies and procedures. Demonstrate a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude toward customers at all times. Recognize that patient safety is a top priority.

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

· Monitor patient health and administer basic care utilizing the nursing process within the LPN/LVN scope of practice in carrying out care plan objectives and goals.

· Role model expectations related to customer service and demonstrates a sense of urgency related to the importance of patient safety.

· Collaborate with others to ensure that patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age, developmental and cultural needs are met and when they are not met, acknowledges and works to resolve customer complaints.

· Provide for the basic comfort of patient, implement nursing interventions identified in the plan of care that is individualized to their needs.

· Apply appropriate interventions to progress the patient towards wellness and address maintenance of wellness.

· Discuss the care provided with patient and listen to their concerns. Report status changes and concerns to registered nurses and doctors.

· Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patient, visitors, coworkers and others involved in the patient's treatment in an effective manner.

· Provide for the safe delivery of medication in accordance with policies and procedures, physicians orders and/or current practice.

· Maintain standards of professional nursing practice in accordance with facility policy and procedures, other external governing and credentialing bodies, performance improvement standards and psychiatric nursing standards.

· Responsible for thorough, accurate reporting and documentation of the patient symptoms, responses and progress.

OTHER FUNCTIONS:

· Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

· Graduation from an accredited school of nursing required.

· One or more years' of nursing experience within clinical area of service provided by facility preferred.

LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:

· Current LPN/LVN license as required by state.

· CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).

· First aid may be required based on state or facility.

While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances (e.g. emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws.]

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