Mental Health Registered Nurse (RN) - Night Shift

Area of Interest: Nursing

Shift: M-F 8-4:30; Occasional evenings (until 7 PM); Make a Real Impact as a Psychiatric Nurse on Our ACT Team

If you want a nursing role that feels purposeful and hands-on, this is it. As a Psychiatric Nurse on our Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team, you’ll work closely with individuals with complex mental health needs and play a key role in helping them build stability and independence.

This is community-based work where relationships matter. You’ll meet clients in their homes and out in the community, offering consistent support through assessments, treatment planning, medication education, and ongoing psychiatric care. Monday through Friday schedule, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, with occasional evenings and weekends

• Why UnityPoint Health?

At UnityPoint Health, you matter. We’re proud to be recognized as a Top 150 Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare several years in a row for our commitment to our team members.

Dental and health insurance, paid holidays, short and long-term disability and more. Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement to help further your career and adoption assistance to help you grow your family .

Find a fulfilling career and make a difference with UnityPoint Health.

Direct Client Care and Medical Services:

• Under the direction of the team medication prescriber and in collaboration with the other registered nurses on the team, develop, revise, maintain, and supervise team psychopharmacologic and medical treatment and medication policies and procedures including transcribing, administering, evaluating, and recording psychotropic medications prescribed by the medication prescriber.
• Takes a lead role in providing medication administration and nursing care, evaluating and charting psychotropic medication effectiveness, complications, and side effects as prescribed by ACT psychiatrist or ARNP.
• Administer IM injections according to protocol, properly destroy medications according to protocol, and assure client attendance and follow-up with psychiatric prescriber.
• Arranges for required lab work according to protocol, tracking collections and results.
• Provides individual and group treatment, as part of a team, in the office and community settings. In collaboration with the team psychiatrist or ARNP coordinate, schedule, and administer medical assessments of client physical health, making appropriate referrals to community physicians for further assessment and treatment, and coordinating psychiatric treatment with medical treatment.
• Provides individual, couple, family and group services/skill teaching in a community setting to teach patients behavioral symptom management as a means of coping with internal and external stressors.
• Performs shift management in coordination with other ACT staff according to established policy and procedures.
• Provides on-call crisis interventions covering after business hours, overnights and weekends as scheduled.
• Initiates and maintains relationships, in coordination with other staff, with law enforcement, other human service agencies, and informal community resources, (e.g. landlords, employers, etc.), Advocate for clients to help meet their needs, desires and best interests.
• Functions as a practicing clinician on the team and provides service coordination (case management) for an assigned group of patients. o Assumes primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluation and revising treatment goals and plans in conjunction with client. o Provides supportive therapy and symptom management. o Ensures immediate changes are made in treatment plans as a patients’ needs change. o Help maintain patients’ entitlements.
• Manage pharmaceuticals and medical supplies Documentation/Assessment:
• Track and document monthly outcome objectives.
• Participates in patient-centered comprehensive assessment o Identifies psychiatric history o Mental status and diagnosis o Physical and dental health o Use of drugs or alcohol o Education and employment o Social development and functioning o Activities of daily living o Family structure and relationships

Associates degree or Bachelor’s degree in nursing with current RN License required.

License(s)/Certification(s): Licensed in the state of Iowa as a RN.