Registered Nurse (Psychiatry) (PM Shift)

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.

• →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

• 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

• Current California Registered Nurse License
• BLS (Basic Life Support ) Certification for Healthcare Providers - American Heart Association
• Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse (PMHN) HIGHLY preferred
• 3 to 5 years of RN Psychiatric experience HIGHLY preferred