Registered Nurse - Behavioral Health Adult Inpatient Unit

About This Role

Being a nurse at Advocate Health means delivering exceptional clinical care with purpose, compassion, and boldness. This role involves joining a unified team committed to lifting others up, embracing innovation, and creating inclusive spaces. You will be empowered to think boldly, collaborate with humility, and drive change through fearless curiosity.

Responsibilities

• Play a pivotal role in providing and coordinating comprehensive patient care through the nursing process to deliver safe, therapeutic care in accordance with established standards, policies, and procedures
• Use evidence-based practice, clinical decision making, compassion, and skilled communication while leading efforts to create the safest patient environment and the best patient experience across the continuum

Requirements

• Completion of an accredited or approved program in nursing
• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the teammate practices
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers certification issued by the American Heart Association

Important Details

• Schedule: Requires frequent sitting, standing, walking, bending, squatting, reaching, twisting, and lifting throughout the workday
• Other conditions: Must safely lift up to 35 pounds and perform patient handling tasks, including pushing/pulling up to 30 pounds and assisting with 150-pound sliding transfers; requires functional speech, vision, hearing, touch, and fine motor skills for clinical procedures, as well as the ability to operate equipment foot controls; must be able to respond quickly to changing patient conditions and perform patient safety interventions, including verbal de-escalation and restraints when necessary; exposure to blood, body fluids, communicable diseases, chemicals, and hazardous waste may occur, appropriate protective equipment must be used; physical abilities testing and additional department-specific requirements may apply

About the Company

At Aurora Psychiatric Hospital, you can count on the most comprehensive continuum of behavioral health care in the state. Located on a beautiful, 30-acre wooded campus, the facility offers an ideal healing setting for children, adolescents and adults experiencing mental health or substance concerns. From its landscaped garden areas to its use of pet therapy dogs, the company creates a patient-focused, healing treatment experience that fosters recovery.