RN Psychiatric Nurse

Milwaukee, WI Other | Contractor
POSTED ON 5/16/2024

We are searching for a sharp-eyed psychiatric nurse to tend to inpatient and outpatient psychiatric cases. A psychiatric nurse should co-create evidence-based protocols, administer prescribed treatment, and report on prominent deviations in patients' symptomology. You should also restrain otherwise uncontrollable patients to protect them.

Psychiatric Nurse Responsibilities:

  • 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.

Psychiatric Nurse Requirements:

  • Associate's or bachelor's degree in nursing, where the latter is preferred.
  • Two years of behavioral health experience is required Two years of emergency room experience is required.
  • AHA BLS & ACLS required.

Job Types: Travel nursing, Contract

Pay: $40.00 - $44.00 per hour

Expected hours: 36 per week

Benefits:

  • Referral program

Medical specialties:

  • Emergency Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Urgent Care

Physical setting:

  • Acute care
  • Hospital
  • Long term care
  • Skilled nursing facility

Standard shift:

  • Night shift

Supplemental pay types:

  • Breakdown pay
  • Overtime pay

Supplemental schedule:

  • Holidays
  • Overtime

Weekly schedule:

  • 3x12

Experience:

  • Psychiatry: 1 year (Preferred)
  • Nursing: 2 years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

  • BLS Certification (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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