Registered Nurse - Mental Health

Mental Health Registered Nurse (RN)

The Mental Health (MH) Registered Nurse (RN) executes their position duties to improve patient and organizational outcomes by providing patient-centered and recovery-oriented care, maintaining self-awareness while caring for patients living with MH conditions, and managing the milieu. Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Facilitates shift reports, warm hand-offs, and develops content as well as facilitates nurse-led psycho-educational groups.
• Use therapeutic communication techniques, practice de-escalation techniques, and utilize recovery-oriented language.
• Coordinates and actively participates in MH interdisciplinary treatment team, MH Environment of Care rounds, directs team response to psychiatric emergencies, reports safety concerns, and assists in safety concern resolution.
• Documents nursing assessments, nursing plan of care, patient safety observations, and environmental safety rounds according to facility policy.
• Maintains professional boundaries to protect patient vulnerabilities and act in the best interest of the patient.
• Collaborates in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines.
• Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for MH patients.
• Provides peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement.
• Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals.
• Evaluates MH outcomes of evidence-based decisions and practice changes for individuals, groups, and populations.
• Responsible for the documented MH outcomes at the program or service level. Program or service level outcomes must be broad and complex and can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility.
• Transports patients to community outings.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm

Compressed/Flexible: Yes

Telework: Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

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Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized