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.)

Part 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.)

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

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

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

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