Inpatient Psychiatric Registered Nurse; Sacramento

POSITION TITLE: Inpatient Psychiatric Registered Nurse (RN)

REPORTS TO: Director of Nursing

Pay Scale: $45.86 - $55.50

The Inpatient Psychiatric RN's top priority is to deliver high quality safe care to psychiatric inpatients in the acute locked hospital facility. The RN provides direct care and treatment to inpatients and coordinates the care provided by other nursing personnel. The RN plans and coordinates each patient's individual nursing care plan and implements nursing aspects of the multidisciplinary treatment plan (MDTP).

The RN embraces Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare Hospital's (SRBHH) mission, vision and values and adheres to all hospital policies and procedures. The RN understands the regulations and standards governing acute psychiatric hospital services and gives clear direction to their nursing team to meet all regulations, standards, and requirements.

• Current California RN License
• Current CPR certification or obtained within 30 days of hire
• Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) obtained within 30 days of hire
• Knowledge and experience of psychiatric diagnosis and associated risks, medications, biological systems, nursing process, treatment planning, and leadership. New RN graduates may meet these requirements if they have completed a psychiatric rotation as part of nursing school or have psychiatric experience in another role

The RN will pass initial and annual competency evaluations including suicide prevention, de‑escalation interventions, medication knowledge, code blue/emergency interventions, infection prevention, and appropriate use of seclusion and manual holds.

The RN will demonstrate leadership skills in applying knowledge and competency in daily nursing practice.

Maintain working knowledge of policies, awareness of policy changes, and know where to find additional policies and needed information.

• Stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, and stand for sustained periods of time
• Walk, push, pull, lift, carry objects from a lower to higher position or horizontally from position to position or otherwise move objects
• Feel sizes, shapes, temperatures, and textures by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips
• Express or exchange ideas orally and potentially loudly, accurately, or quickly
• Perceive the nature of sound with no less than a 40 dB loss @ 1000 Hz and 2000 Hz with or without correction
• Exert up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently
• Able to provide manual holds for patients who are physically acting out and are potentially dangerous (at times this occurs on the floor)
• Minimum standard of visual acuity with or without correction
• While worker may possibly be subjected to temperature changes, the worker is generally not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions as the work is predominantly inside

Eligible employees receive holiday premium pay, health, dental & vision insurance, 401(k), healthcare & dependent care spending accounts, generous paid time off, life insurance, company-paid short and long-term disability coverage.