Registered Nurse - Psychiatric

A Registered Nurse - Psych (Psychiatric Nurse) is a healthcare professional who specializes in providing nursing care to patients with mental illness or emotional disorders. Requirements for this position typically include a bachelor's degree in nursing and a current registered nurse (RN) license. Additionally, psychiatric nurses must have experience in mental health care and a strong understanding of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatments.

Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills are also necessary.

• Gauging patients' psychiatric states.
• Collaborating on psychiatric intervention plans.
• Administering psychotropic and similar medications.
• Monitoring adherence to non-medicinal treatment regimens.
• Removing potentially harmful and triggering environmental features.
• Restraining, consoling, and sometimes medicating highly unsettled patients.
• Recording patients' health journeys and reporting on notable alterations.
• Conducting targeted psychoeducation, particularly within families.

• Associate's or bachelor's degree in nursing, where the latter is preferred.
• PMHNP-BC is preferred.
• Receipt of BLS training.
• Familiarity with cultural perceptions about psychiatric difficulties.
• Well-honed triaging, diagnostic, and clinical judgment capacities.
• Superb interpersonal and collaboration abilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Resilience, immense empathy, and resolution.