RN / Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse

Specialty: Behavioral Health - Mental Health

Location: Grand Rapids, MI

Duration: Full time / permanent

Shift Notes: 40 Hour Guarantee

Shift Differentials:

• 7am-3pm: Saturday & Sunday at $1.25 extra per hour
• 3pm-11pm: Monday Thursday at $2.00 extra per hour
• 3pm-11pm: Friday Sunday at $3.00 extra per hour
• 11pm-7am: Monday Thursday at $4.00 extra per hour
• 11pm-7am: Friday Sunday at $5.00 extra per hour

12-hour shifts at 7:00am-7:00pm & 7:00pm-7:00am

8-hour shifts: 2nd:3:00pm-11:30pm & 3rd:11:00pm-7:30am

A Registered Nurse is responsible and accountable to perform the nursing process as a basis for patient care. RNs provide direction and oversight to other licensed and non-licensed staff. This RNs show compassion to recipients of services, coworkers, and surrounding communities through integrity, stewardship, empowerment, the promotion of diversity, and professional excellence. The Registered Nurse must demonstrate excellent customer service and have enthusiasm for the program and the organization.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assesses persons served care needs, develops a plan of care in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, and continually reassesses plan of care according to persons served care needs.
• In collaboration with the physician, provides/coordinates nursing care to individuals and groups of persons served.
• Assists in the teaching of persons served families, and provides milieu management. Communicates with and educates persons served families/significant others in discharge/after care planning needs.
• Provides a safe and secure environment for persons served and staff in both individual and group settings.
• Responsible for documenting, reporting, and verifying all necessary information according to established policies and procedures.
• Responsible to monitor for and report to the physician(s) any potential risk to persons served safety that could lead to an adverse outcome.
• Creates a customer/client friendly environment by following quality improvement standards, maintaining professionalism, initiating and maintaining positive relationships with departments/programs, co-workers and external customers.
• Provides care in various clinical settings with diverse persons served populations. Identifies specific persons served needs and implements persons served centered, compassionate care.
• Functions as a clinical leader, delegating/coordinating staff assignments and promoting staff development.
• Responsible for the utilization and continued review of patient care protocols, standards of practice, and standards of care. Gives input into process for improvement.
• Utilizes and promotes careful use of resources.
• May be responsible in training direct care staff.
• May be indirectly responsible for oversight of medication and physical health activities in a program.
• May be responsible for scheduling, staffing, and obtaining pre-authorizations.
• Responsible to role model the mission and values of the organization, presenting a professional image that is projected in appearance, attitudes and behaviors, time management and communication skills. Provides spiritual, emotional, social, mental and physical support to patients.
• In the community residential setting required to support and promote a recovery focused environment and person-centered approach within the program.
• Commitment to demonstrating the Hospital and Residential Services Model of Care in hospital and residential areas.
• Responsible to uphold the healing ministry of Christ through relationships that honor integrity, stewardship, empowerment, the promotion of diversity, equity, inclusion, and professional excellence.
• Must maintain annual training and demonstrate competency in the required programmatic training.
• Performs other duties or functions as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• May function as a charge nurse.

Benefits: Priority Health medical, Delta Dental, Eye Med Vision, Employer paid Life, ADD and Critical Illness with option to add additional voluntary coverage, Short Term and Long Disability, HSA and FSA options, 401(k) match and a rich paid time off benefit. Eligibility for Tuition Reimbursement and Education Loan Forgiveness. Free On-Campus parking.

Submission Requirements

By submitting your applicant to this need you are acknowledging that you have checked and have no inclination that your candidate has applied directly to this position. Any candidate that has applied directly is not eligible to be onboarded through an agency.

Required/Desired Qualifications:

Education, Training, and Experience:

• Licensed to practice in the state of Michigan, Bachelors Degree in Nursing is preferred.
• May be required to have professional knowledge of psychiatric nursing theory as required through completion of education from an accredited school of nursing.
• Satisfactory previous clinical experience.
• New grads can be considered but would prefer psych or ED experience.

Specific skills, knowledge, and abilities:

• Ability to provide care/service within the scope of: Holding a conviction to express Christs love and compassion to recipients of services, coworkers, and surrounding communities through integrity, stewardship, empowerment, the promotion of diversity, equity, inclusion, and professional excellence.
• Ability to provide culturally inclusive care with a wide range of individuals in a diverse community setting.
• Work requires professional knowledge of psychiatric nursing theory as required through completion of education from an accredited school of nursing.
• Requires physical and emotional stamina to deal with physical, emotional, social, cultural and spiritual needs of patients.
• Ability to work in a potentially adverse environment.
• Analytical skills necessary in order to collect, analyze and interpret complex patient data, to determine importance of information collected and the ability provide this data to providers and other team members as necessary.
• The candidate may be required to have a valid Michigan drivers license and ability access Transportation Vehicles for the performance of job duties.