REGISTERED NURSE I (UMP)

Registered Nurse I (Ump)

The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is seeking to hire an independent, highly organized, and detail-oriented licensed registered nurse for the Alton Mental Health Center located in Alton, Illinois. This position will be responsible for performing direct nursing care for people with mental illness. The successful candidate shall demonstrate good oral and written communication skills, be a self-starter, and be able to carry out nursing assignments pursuant to the direction of medical personnel.

Essential functions include utilizing the nursing process, providing professional nursing care to mentally ill patients on a living unit, providing guidance to lower-level staff for adherence to treatment plans and compliance with applicable operational policies and procedures, current professional standards of psychiatric mental health patient care, performing a variety of nursing care functions including preparing and administering medication, laboratory specimens, preparing patients for specialized diagnostic testing, providing basic life support (bls), consulting with physicians and other professional staff regarding patient treatment and care, monitoring the use of appropriate techniques to ensure a safe, secure therapeutic and sanitary environment of care and general performance of duties, completing mandatory nursing training requirements and continuing education workshops and seminars to maintain professional competency, and performing other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum qualifications require graduation from an approved nursing education program resulting in an associate or diploma degree in nursing or a bachelor's degree in nursing, licensure as a registered nurse in the state of illinois, the ability to work after business hours, weekends, and holidays on a rotation basis, the ability to serve on an on-call basis, the ability to lift up to 50 pounds unassisted, the ability to acquire and maintain cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) certificate, the ability to pass cpi (crisis prevention institute) training, the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers and basic computer skills, the ability to physically restrain patients as necessary to prevent injury to patient or others, the ability to travel in the performance of duties, the ability to pass the idhs background check, and the ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under illinois law.

Work hours include various shifts. 30-minute paid lunch. See below.