Registered Nurse - Behavioral Health
UnityPoint Health
Summary
Join our Behavioral Health Nursing Team at the Robert Young Center, where you'll provide compassionate, patient-centered care to individuals experiencing mental health crises. Work alongside a collaborative, multidisciplinary team in a supportive environment focused on trauma-informed care, mental wellness, and helping patients achieve positive outcomes.
Job description
Overview
Join our Behavioral Health Nursing Team at the Robert Young Center, where you'll provide compassionate, patient-centered care to individuals experiencing mental health crises. Work alongside a collaborative, multidisciplinary team in a supportive environment focused on trauma-informed care, mental wellness, and helping patients achieve positive outcomes.
Shift Available: Full-Time: 2:45 PM – 11:15 PM or 6:45 AM - 7:15 PM
Provide acute nursing care to patients experiencing a wide range of behavioral health conditions and co-occurring disorders. Guided by the Robert Young Center's Trauma-Informed Care principles, nurses play an essential role in assessing patient needs, developing individualized treatment plans, administering medications, and supporting patients throughout their recovery.
Our Behavioral Health nurses work closely with psychiatrists, mental health professionals, and other members of the interdisciplinary care team to provide comprehensive psychiatric and medical care. From crisis stabilization and ongoing treatment to discharge planning and coordination of care, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients while expanding your behavioral health nursing skills and expertise.
Responsibilities
- Uses the nursing process to deliver high quality care appropriate to the age and educational level of the patient.
- Collects and synthesizes comprehensive health data that are pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health and/or situation.
- Develops a plan to attain expected outcomes.
- Analyzes the assessment data to determine diagnoses, problems, and areas of focus for care and treatment, including level of risk.
- Implements a specified plan: Coordinates care delivery, employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment; uses knowledge of pharmacological, biological and complimentary interventions to restore health and prevent further disability; provides structure and maintains a safe therapeutic recovery oriented environment; uses the therapeutic relationship and counseling interventions to assist health care consumers.
Qualifications
Education: Diploma from an RN program.
License(s)/Certification(s): Current licensure in good standing to practice as a Registered Nurse in primary state. Must apply within 90 days for licensure in secondary state. Must possess and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification. Must possess and maintain ACLS.
Requirements
- Diploma from an RN program
- Current licensure in good standing to practice as a Registered Nurse in primary state
- Must apply within 90 days for licensure in secondary state
- Must possess and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
- Must possess and maintain ACLS
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- 401(k) Matching
- Employee recognition program
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid holidays
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Pet insurance
- Daily Pay
- Tuition reimbursement
- Adoption assistance
- $10,000 Sign-On Bonus
Company overview
UnityPoint Health is a leading integrated non-profit health system serving communities across Iowa, western Illinois, and southern Wisconsin. As the nation's 13th largest nonprofit health system and fourth largest nondenominational health system in America, UnityPoint Health operates a comprehensive network of 18 regional hospitals, 17 community network hospitals, and over 400 clinics and healthcare facilities. The organization provides a full spectrum of healthcare services including primary care, specialty care, emergency services, surgical procedures, maternity care, cancer treatment, heart care, and home health services. Each year, UnityPoint Health serves nearly 8 million patient visits, performs approximately 100,000 surgeries, and delivers more than 20,000 babies. With more than 29,000 team members, the health system is recognized for its coordinated care approach, shared electronic medical record system, and commitment to making healthcare easier and more personal for patients. UnityPoint Health has been consistently recognized as a Top 150 Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare for four consecutive years, reflecting its strong organizational culture and commitment to team member development.