We are searching for a sharp-eyed psychiatric nurse to tend to inpatient and outpatient psychiatric cases. A psychiatric nurse should co-create evidence-based protocols, administer prescribed treatment, and report on prominent deviations in patients' symptomology. You should also restrain otherwise uncontrollable patients to protect them.

Psychiatric Nurse 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.

Psychiatric Nurse Requirements:

• Associate's or bachelor's degree in nursing, where the latter is preferred.
• Two years of behavioral health experience is required Two years of emergency room experience is required.
• AHA BLS & ACLS required.

Job Types: Travel nursing, Contract, Temporary

Pay: $60.00 - $63.00 per hour

Expected hours: 36 per week

Benefits:

• Referral program

Medical specialties:

• Emergency Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Urgent Care

Physical setting:

• ER
• Hospital

Standard shift:

• Night shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Breakdown pay
• Overtime pay

Supplemental schedule:

• Holidays
• Overtime

Weekly schedule:

• 3x12
• Rotating weekends

Experience:

• Nursing: 2 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• BLS Certification (Required)

Work Location: In person