Job Description
Position Status:
Full time
Shift:
12 Hour Night Shift (United States of America)
Hours per week:
36
Job Information
Exemption Status: Non-Exempt
A Brief Overview
Behavioral Health is a specialty within the nursing profession that encompasses the care of individuals across the life span who present with physical, emotional, or psychological alterations of health. Psychiatric nursing is care of acute and chronic illnesses in nature and occurs in a variety of care settings. Psychiatric nursing encompasses care of various psychiatric illnesses at varies stages in the acute setting helping prepare the patient and family for safe discharge and therapeutic continuum of care. It includes the care of patients greater than the age of and multiple psychiatric conditions. Psychiatric nurses have adapted nursing process to include components of de-escalation skills, maintaining safety, assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, a...