Registered Nurse -Youth Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Registered Nurse - Youth Neurodevelopmental Disorders

We are excited to launch a 4-bed pilot program within our Child and Adolescent Unit, focused on providing specialized inpatient care for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability. This innovative program will lay the foundation for a future 10-bed unit at Pine Rest's Pediatric Center of Behavioral Health, opening in March 2026.

The average patient stay is expected to be 25 days. The program emphasizes reducing challenging behaviors (such as aggression, self-injury, and property destruction) using a behavior analytic approach and closely monitored behavioral data. Family and caregiver training are a core part of the care model. You will be part of a collaborative team that includes psychiatrists, behavior analysts, therapists, social workers, and technicians—all working together to help patients build functional skills for successful reintegration into home, school, and community settings.

As a Registered Nurse at Pine Rest, you'll be part of a tight-knit team that believes in the healing power of your expertise and compassion. An RN 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. Pine Rest RNs show compassion to recipients of services, coworkers, and surrounding communities through integrity, stewardship, empowerment, the promotion of diversity, and professional excellence.

Our RNs are driven to make an impact in the lives of those we serve and are motivated by the healing they witness first-hand each day. They are dedicated to excellent customer service, enthusiastic about the care we offer, and foster a sense of belonging and empowerment in a diverse workplace.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assesses person's served care needs, develops a plan of care in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, and continually reassesses plan of care according to person's served care needs.
• In collaboration with the physician, provides/coordinates nursing care to individuals and groups of person's 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 person's 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 person's served populations. Identifies specific person's served needs and implements person's 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.
• 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.
• Must maintain annual training and demonstrate competency in the required programmatic training.