Compensation : $56 - $56 Hourly
Client Job Ref ID : 140382
Shift Description : Day shifts - 36 hours (weekends rotating)
Travel Registered Nurse - Psychiatric
Memphis, Tennessee, United States - 37501
Job Title: Travel Nurse - Psychiatric

Number of positions: 1

Shift: Day shifts- 36 hours (weekends rotating)

Duration: 13 weeks

Start Date: 06/13/2023

JOB DESCRIPTION

A Registered Nurse - Psych (Psychiatric Nurse) is a healthcare professional who specializes in providing nursing care to patients with mental illness or emotional disorders. Requirements for this position typically include a bachelor's degree in nursing and a current registered nurse (RN) license. Additionally, psychiatric nurses must have experience in mental health care and a strong understanding of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatments. Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills are also necessary.

Job Responsibilities:

• Gauging patients' psychiatric states.
• Collaborating on psychiatric intervention plans.
• Administering psychotropic and similar medications.
• Monitoring adherence to non-medicinal treatment regimens.
• Removing potentially harmful and triggering environmental features.
• Restraining, consoling, and sometimes medicating highly unsettled patients.
• Recording patients' health journeys and reporting on notable alterations.
• Conducting targeted psychoeducation, particularly within families.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Associate's or bachelor's degree in nursing, where the latter is preferred.
• Pertinent state licensure.
• PMHNP-BC is preferred.
• Receipt of BLS training.
• Familiarity with cultural perceptions about psychiatric difficulties.
• Well-honed triaging, diagnostic, and clinical judgment capacities.
• Superb interpersonal and collaboration abilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Resilience, immense empathy, and resolution.

Certification:

• Basic Life Support ,
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Requirements:

• COVID vaccine with 2 Shots & Booster.

SKILLS/ ABILITIES/ COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:

• Maintains and updates clinical knowledge and skills.
• Participates in relevant continuing education programs.
• Knowledge of and dedication to the highest patient care and provide the utmost service excellence to all patients.
• Ability to take initiative and to exercise independent judgment, decision-making and problem-solving expertise.
• A can-do, team oriented attitude is essential, as the ability to work independently and to interact easily with physicians, other managers and staff throughout the department and hospital.
• Effective interpersonal/communication, organizational, and the flexibility to handle multiple tasks.

ABOUT HEALTHCARE STAFFING PLUS

Healthcare Staffing Plus is a US based national per diem, local contract, and locum tenens agency. We are located in the beautiful rolling hills of southern Indiana just outside of Louisville, KY.

With close to 24 years of non-clinical healthcare experience that includes 16 years of solid medical staffing and recruiting experience, we deliver on our promise of adhering to strict and ethical recruiting standards handled with the utmost professionalism. Never resting on our laurels of sourcing candidates thoroughly and presenting our clients only the cream of the crop.
Required Skills
Excellent communication skils, Critical thinking skills, Reference Code
140382 Job Category
Registered Nurse Facility Type
Agency,Hospital Based Pay Rate
56 - 56USDPer Hour Specialty
Addiction medicine,Psychiatry,Psychiatry-child/adolescent,Psychiatry-geriatric Geographical Setting
Urban,Metropolitan On Call
Yes Board Certification
Yes