About this role
About the Role The Registered Nurse will provide professional nursing care on Linden Oaks Flex unit (LOH Main - Naperville), part-time days, focusing on patient assessment, care planning, coordination, and interdisciplinary collaboration to support mental health patients. What You'll Do
- Regularly performs duties of professional nurse including assessing patients' condition, developing and administering patient plan of care, documenting care administered, and evaluating patient care outcomes.
- Warmly welcomes patients to the unit.
- Promotes and maintains a safe, therapeutic milieu by supervising and providing feedback to direct care staff.
- Ensures rounds are assigned and precaution records completed in real time.
- Collaborates with Resource and Referral Department to facilitate patient admissions and transfers.
- Requests and provides thorough hand-off communication upon admission, transfer, or discharge and when sending or receiving boarding patients.
- Interacts with patients, families, and appropriate health care providers to collect and analyze data regarding physical, psychosocial, environmental, self-care, educational, and anticipated discharge planning needs.
- Participates in development of interdisciplinary planning and ensures medical problems are incorporated into the treatment plan.
- Assists in development and attainment of nursing department goals and participates in activities to improve department functioning and professional competence.
- Assists in selecting and orientation of qualified personnel to provide optimum patient care; demonstrates ability to evaluate suggestions and criticisms objectively and undertakes to change behavior or seek further guidance.
- Participates in program evaluation; attends in-service programs and trainings; serves as a role model and central resource for students; explains and clarifies organization policies to staff and patients.
- Supervises direct patient care as required; works within budgetary constraints including staffing, overtime, and use of supplies and equipment. What We're Looking For
- Education: Nursing degree; Current State of Illinois Registered Nurse license; Current CPR Certification issued by American Heart Association; CPI certification within 90 days of hire.
- Experience and Skills: Maintain information as highly confidential. Nice to Have
- One-year psychiatric experience
- Basic knowledge of abnormal psychology as typically found in psychiatric population
- Familiarity with management of a therapeutic level system and understanding of system of rewards and consequences Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $36.00 - $55.80 per hour
- Benefits include premium pay such as shift, on-call, holidays; incentive pay; annual increases; career pathways; medical, dental, vision options; tuition reimbursement; free parking; wellness program savings plan; health savings account options; retirement options with company match; paid time off and holiday pay; community involvement opportunities