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Psychiatric Registered Nurse (RN)

Contract Associate

Job Overview

You'll provide psychiatric nursing care within an inpatient behavioral health setting, helping patients with complex mental health conditions and developmental disabilities while working alongside an experienced interdisciplinary treatment team.

In this role, you'll assess patients, contribute to individualized treatment planning, provide therapeutic interventions, and support crisis response efforts while helping maintain a safe, patient-centered care environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assess patients during admissions and throughout treatment, developing and implementing individualized plans of care.
  • Deliver therapeutic nursing interventions, administer medications, monitor treatment effectiveness, and respond to changes in patient condition.
  • Collaborate with physicians, behavioral health professionals, and interdisciplinary team members to coordinate care and support positive patient outcomes.
  • Guide and oversee delegated activities performed by LPNs and nursing assistants while maintaining a safe treatment environment.
  • Educate patients and families, advocate for patient rights, and support effective communication with approved stakeholders while maintaining confidentiality standards.
  • Respond to behavioral and medical emergencies, initiate appropriate interventions, and maintain accurate clinical documentation.

If you do your best work in an environment where the team is as invested as you are, this role was built for that.

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