Travel RN - Psychiatric
Cynet Health is seeking a travel nurse RN Psychiatric for a travel nursing job in Martinsville, Virginia.
Job Description & Requirements
• Specialty: Psychiatric
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: 11/07/2023
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel
Position Summary
• PSYCHIATRIC/PSYCHE NURSE is a registered nurse (RN) with expertise in mental illness.
• He or she use skills to help those with mental illness live fulfilling and productive lives.
• He or she may help in mental health crisis intervention and therapy; aid in medication management; and even assist the patient in daily activities that are stressful.
Duties And Responsibilities
• Performs head-to-toe assessments, manages/assists group/behavior therapies and other interventions within scope of practice.
• Observes for normal vs. abnormal findings and reporting of abnormal findings to Charge Nurse, M.D., if warranted
• Intervene with appropriate intervention for urgent/emergent care.
• Performs direct care to acute and chronically ill psych patients as well as pediatric, adolescent and geriatric population as related to psychiatric disorders including medication calculation & administration.
• Performs basic medical emergency procedures & care within company & facility’s policy’s & procedures.
• Identifies and manages life-sustaining physiologic and psychiatric functions in unstable patients
• Communicates therapeutically to patients.
• Able to care and manage patients with eating disorders, drug/ETOH detox, manic depressive, hallucination-delusions, suicidal, organic seizure disorders, and management of patients on seclusion procedures
• Participates in psych emergency response team including rapid tranquilization.
• Applies restraints, including 4-point, wrist and posey net full body.
Qualifications
Minimum Job Requirements:
• Current registered nurse licensure in the state of practice.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification and ACLS
Education:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Board Certified preferred, Experience A minimum of two years’ psychiatric nursing experience in a healthcare setting
Cynet Health Job ID #22669686. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36.0 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: RN:Psych,07:00:00-19:00:00
Hospitals and Health Care
Health Care Provider
Part-time