About This Role
This role provides comprehensive nursing care to psychiatric patients in an inpatient setting within the Department of Nursing at Saint Elizabeths Hospital. The nurse collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to formulate, evaluate, and revise treatment plans, and administers medication and treatment. They may also provide face-to-face counseling services to individuals, groups, or family members for symptom and behavior management, skill development, and daily living skill enhancement.
Responsibilities
- Provide the full range of nursing care to psychiatric patients in an inpatient setting
- Participate with the interdisciplinary team in formulating, evaluating, and revising the total treatment plan
- Administer appropriate medication and treatment
- Provide face-to-face counseling services to individual consumers, groups, or family members for symptom and behavior management, development, restoration or enhancement of adaptive behaviors and skills, and enhancement or maintenance of daily living skills
- Provide comprehensive nursing care for complex psychiatric patients
- Provide and guide nursing staff in the implementation of complex nursing interventions
- Lead therapeutic groups with patients
- Co-lead therapeutic groups with other nursing staff to guide them in the development of their group skills
Requirements
- One year of specialized professional nursing experience as a Registered Nurse sufficiently related to Psychiatric nursing in a hospital setting
- Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse with the District of Columbia (or have made application for licensure)
Minimum qualification requirement determinations are based on the following education coupled with experience:
- Associate Degree Program: 3 years RN Experience
- Baccalaureate Degree Program: 2 years RN Experience
Important Details
- Tour of Duty: Rotating Shifts (including weekends and holidays)
- Duration of Appointment: Career Appointment (Permanent)
- Promotion Potential: None
- First Screening: October 23, 2026
- Collective Bargaining Unit: This position is in the collective bargaining unit represented by D.C. Nurse’s Association (DCNA) and you may be required to pay an agency service fee through an automatic payroll deduction
Extra Section: Residency Preference
- A person applying for a position in the Career Service, Educational Service, Management Supervisory Service, a line attorney position in the Legal Service (series 905), or an attorney position in the Excepted Service (series 905) who is a bona fide District resident at the time of application for the position may be awarded a 10-point residency preference over non-District applicants, unless the person declines the preference points. If selected, the person shall be required to present no less than 8 proofs of bona fide District residency and maintain such residency for 7 consecutive years from the effective date of the appointment. Failure to maintain bona fide District residency for the 7-year period will result in forfeiture of employment.