Psychiatric Registered Nurse Crisis Stabilization and Resource Center

Job Category: Therapeutic

Requisition Number: PSYCH
003519

• Posted :
  October 12, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site

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Papillion, NE, USA

Be the steady presence when it matters most. At The Crisis Center, people arrive in the middle of a mental health crisis - and your nursing care is often the first thing that helps them feel safe again. As a full-time Psychiatric RN, you blend psychiatric and physical health nursing to help people stabilize, heal, and get back to their lives.

This is voluntary, community-based crisis care - a warm, respite-style setting, not a hospital ward or a revolving door. You'll work at the bedside and alongside a close-knit team, using every part of your license: assessment, medication management, de-escalation, health monitoring, teaching, and care coordination. If you want hands-on nursing where your presence genuinely changes someone's day, this is the place.

Why you'll want this role

You use your whole license. Psychiatric and physical health nursing, medication management, teaching, and coordination - all in one role.

You're at the bedside. Real, hands-on care with real people - not paperwork from a distance.

You're part of a tight team. Psychiatric providers, therapists, and crisis staff work shoulder-to-shoulder with you in a trauma-informed environment.

You help people get home. You guide individuals and families from crisis through stabilization and back into the community.

Compensation
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Salary to discussed upon interview.

THE ROLE AT A GLANCE

You'll plan, implement, and evaluate programs of nursing care and therapeutic intervention that support stabilization, promote wellness, and help people reintegrate into the community - always in step with the Nebraska Nurse Practice Act, Nebraska DHHS behavioral health regulations, and facility policies.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Assess & deliver nursing care

• Provide comprehensive psychiatric nursing assessments - routine and urgent/emergent as clinically indicated.
• Conduct physical health screenings, assess ongoing medical needs, and screen for health risks at intake and periodically.
• Identify conditions requiring referral, consultation, or transfer to a higher level of care.
• Plan, implement, and evaluate individualized nursing care plans consistent with the interdisciplinary treatment plan.

Manage medications

• Administer and manage medications in collaboration with the CSRC psychiatric provider and other licensed providers, per the Nebraska Nurse Practice Act and orders.
• Perform medication reconciliation at admission and discharge, and monitor therapeutic response, side effects, and effectiveness.
• Ensure secure storage and accurate documentation of medications, including controlled substances.
• Provide medication education to individuals and families.

Monitor health & withdrawal risk

• Monitor vital signs and overall physical health status.
• Watch for indicators of substance use complications or mild withdrawal. The program is not a detox facility - individuals needing medical detox are referred or transferred per policy.
• Provide crisis health intervention within scope of practice, and implement preventive and remedial wellness plans.
• Coordinate referrals for external medical services when indicated.

Stabilize the crisis

• Provide crisis health and psychiatric intervention to support stabilization.
• Use approved de-escalation techniques and the least restrictive interventions.
• Participate in ongoing risk assessment, safety planning, and multi-agency service coordination grounded in best practice.

Support people & families

• Provide therapeutic nursing interventions to individuals and families.
• Teach education groups on medication management and basic health…