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Scheduled Weekly Hours
30
Registered Nurse (RN) – Inpatient Behavioral Health
📍 Location: Main Campus, La Crosse, WI
👩⚕️ Department: Inpatient Behavioral Health (IBH)
🕒 Schedule: 60 hours per two weeks (0.75 FTE) | Straight 12-hour Night shifts (1830–0700)
📆 Every third weekend | Two holidays per year
Why Join Us?
Apply today and be part of something truly meaningful.
If you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267.
We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Scheduled Weekly Hours
30
Registered Nurse (RN) – Inpatient Behavioral Health
📍 Location: Main Campus, La Crosse, WI
👩⚕️ Department: Inpatient Behavioral Health (IBH)
🕒 Schedule: 60 hours per two weeks (0.75 FTE) | Straight 12-hour Night shifts (1830–0700)
📆 Every third weekend | Two holidays per year
Why Join Us?
- Supportive Culture: Warm, family-like environment with long staff retention and strong nurse-to-patient ratios.
- Diverse Experience: Care for both adults and adolescents (ages 13 ) across multiple units.
- Growth Opportunities: Advance into roles like our Behavioral Response Team, Charge Nurse, and more.
- Innovation in Action: Be part of exciting changes including the recent launch of our Empath Unit.
- Meaningful Impact: Help patients in crisis and be a part of their healing journey.
- Provide compassionate, trauma-informed and evidence-based care to patients experiencing acute mental health crisis.
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team including psychiatrists, NPs, RNs, behavioral health specialists, CNAs, social workers, therapists, clergy, and addiction counselors.
- Support patients through crisis stabilization, medication management, and therapeutic interventions.
- Maintain accurate documentation and uphold compliance with safety and regulatory standards.
- Associate Degree in Nursing (minimum)
- Required: Active and unencumbered RN license to practice in the state of Wisconsin
- Preferred: 1 year of RN experience, ideally in mental health
- Current Infant-Adult BLS for Health Care Providers
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Starting pay of $38.96/hour experience-based increases
- Shift, weekend, and holiday differentials
- Support from Clinical Manager, Professional Development Nurse, and Clinical Nurse Leader
- Career development resources Tuition Investment Program
- Top-rated retirement plan and healthcare benefits
- A voice in care decisions through Nursing Shared Governance Councils
Apply today and be part of something truly meaningful.
If you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267.
We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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