Psychiatric Nurse

About This Role

Caring for patients is the core of this Registered Nurse (RN) role, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts patient well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

Responsibilities

• Follow the nursing process which includes: assess, plan, implement, and evaluate. The nursing process is an ongoing process that can end at any stage
• Assessment - Demonstrate a systematic, dynamic way to collect and analyze the following healthcare consumer data including: psychological, physiological, sociocultural, spiritual, economic and lifestyle factors
• Plan – Set measurable and achievable short and long term goals according to standards of care based on the assessment by the nurse in collaboration with the healthcare consumer and multidisciplinary team
• Implement – Implement and/or modify the plan of care using assessment data, clinical reasoning based upon standards of care and evidence based practice. This includes care coordination, education and discharge planning. The nurse is accountable for the care directly, indirectly or through delegation. Professional and legal standards for delegation must be followed
• Evaluate – Use a systematic ongoing process to evaluate progress towards identified healthcare consumer goals. Revision of plan of care when needed involving the healthcare consumer and the multidisciplinary team
• Document all phases of the nursing process in the healthcare consumer’s record

Requirements

• Graduate of an RN nursing program, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: IA, upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Benefits

• $10,000 sign on bonus
• $10,000 of Educational Assistance (loan forgiveness) to new hires who meet the eligibility requirements

About the Company

At CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs, patients are at the heart of their care. Their campus is designed to heal the body, mind and spirit of every person in a more comfortable, less stressful hospital environment. They offer a full range of medical services including a new pavilion featuring enhancements in heart and vascular care, surgery, maternity, cancer care, and diagnostic imaging.