RN - Psych Behavioral Health

Registered Nurse (RN) – Behavioral Health

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Position Overview

Under the supervision of the Nurse Manager or Clinical Coordinator, the Registered Nurse (RN) provides comprehensive, patient-centered nursing care to individuals across a diverse behavioral health population. Our Behavioral Health program offers opportunities across several specialized inpatient and psychiatric emergency settings, including Adolescent Psychiatry, Transitional Age Youth, Mood Disorders, General Adult Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, and Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES).

The RN is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating individualized patient care in accordance with established policies, procedures, and standards of nursing practice. The RN collaborates closely with psychiatrists, advanced practice providers, social workers, therapists, mental health workers, patients, families, and other members of the interdisciplinary team to promote stabilization, recovery, safety, and successful transition to the next level of care.

Depending on patient needs and staffing priorities, RNs may be asked to support multiple behavioral health units. This provides an opportunity to work with patients across a broad range of ages, diagnoses, and levels of psychiatric acuity.

Our Behavioral Health Units

Adolescent Psychiatry – 23 Beds

The Adolescent Psychiatry unit provides specialized inpatient behavioral health care for adolescents ages 13–18. Caring for this population requires an understanding of the unique emotional, cognitive, developmental, family, and social needs of adolescents.

The interdisciplinary team works collaboratively with patients and families to address psychiatric symptoms while supporting healthy development and building skills that promote long-term well-being. Treatment incorporates biological, family systems, psychological, social, and life-skills approaches.

Transitional Age Youth (TAY) – 25 Beds

The Transitional Age Youth unit provides specialized behavioral health care for young people ages 16–26 who are navigating the critical transition from adolescence into adulthood.

This period of life can be particularly challenging and is frequently when individuals experience the first onset or significant escalation of mental illness. The unit provides a positive, structured, and healing environment focused on psychiatric stabilization while helping patients develop the skills needed to successfully transition into adulthood.

Mood Disorders – 26 Beds

The Mood Disorders unit provides comprehensive inpatient behavioral health care for adults experiencing mood disorders, including major depression and bipolar disorder.

RNs work with an interdisciplinary team to provide individualized care based on each patient's clinical presentation, treatment goals, and recovery needs. Care may include monitoring psychiatric and physical status, medication administration and education, suicide and safety assessment, therapeutic communication, crisis intervention, and coordination of treatment and discharge planning.

General Adult Psychiatry – 24 Beds

The General Adult Psychiatry unit provides care for adults experiencing some of the most common and disabling psychiatric conditions, including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other major psychiatric disorders.

This unit offers RNs the opportunity to care for a diverse adult population with varying levels of psychiatric acuity and clinical complexity. Nurses work as part of an interdisciplinary team to provide individualized treatment focused on safety, stabilization, symptom management, and recovery.

Geriatric Psychiatry – 20 Beds

The Geriatric Psychiatry unit provides specialized inpatient behavioral health care for older adults who frequently present with both psychiatric and medical conditions, creating additional complexity in…