Registered Nurse (Psychiatry) (AM and PM Shifts Available)

As a Registered Nurse for Aurora Behavioral Healthcare San Diego, you'll provide general and psychiatric nursing care to adults with emotional or psychiatric disorders. You will provide interventions that: promote and foster health; assess dysfunction; assist patients to regain or improve their coping abilities; maximize patient strengths and prevent further disability. These interventions focus on the psychiatric-mental health patient and include health promotion and health maintenance; monitoring patients and assisting them with self-care activities; monitoring psycho-biological treatment regimens; providing triage decisions and facilitating patient movement into appropriate services.

*Pay Range: $50/hr. to $67/hr.

Available Shifts:

Full Time: AM Shift (7:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.) and PM Shift (3:00 P.M. to 11:30 P.M.)

Per Diem: AM Shift (7:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.) and PM Shift (3:00 P.M. to 11:30 P.M.)

Responsibilities:

• Collects and analyzes data regarding the patient’s physical, psychological, self-care, educational, and anticipated discharge planning needs
• Develops a comprehensive outline of care to be delivered to attain expected outcomes; includes in this plan, specific goals and interventions delineating nursing actions unique to each patient
• Maintains effective communication with all units and departments
• Supervises direct patient care as required
• Carries out medication management responsibilities
• Conducts patient community meetings
• Provides input into the discharge planning process
• Maintain patient, and unit related documentation
• Maintain a safe, orderly, and therapeutic environment for patients

Skills:

• Demonstrates sound leadership skills and critical thinking
• Basic knowledge of abnormal psychology as typically found in the adult psychiatric population
• The familiarity of Psychopharmacy and the use of psychotropic medications with the adult psychiatric population
• Basic teaching and training skills helpful; problem-solving; organizational and time management; crisis intervention skills

Requirements

• Valid California Registered Nurse License
• 1 year Psychiatric Healthcare experience HIGHLY preferred
• BLS (Basic Life Support ) Certification for Healthcare Providers following the American Heart Association guidelines

Benefits

• 401K Retirement Plan
• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Healthcare Spending Account & Dependent Care Spending Account
• Life Insurance (Supplemental Life, Term, and Universal plans are also available.)
• PTO
• Holiday Premium Pay
• PTO - Cash Out option
• Sick Pay
• Short and Long-Term Disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• ID Theft Protection

• Employee Appreciation Events

• Employee Discount Opportunities
• RN Referral Program