Registered Nurse (RN) Nights | $5k Sign On Bonus!
On-siteHuntsville, Alabama, United States
Job Summary
Conduct clinical oversight for day-to-day hospital operations, including patient assessments, IV administration, medication management, and treatment plan updates. Direct patient care through group and individual therapy, education for families, and supervision of non-employee nursing staff. Make patient care assignments, manage staffing schedules, and ensure compliance with infection control, safety, and legal policies regarding seclusion and restraints. Document progress, investigate incidents, and coordinate discharges while maintaining accurate medical records. Work nights with flexible hours, potential unscheduled overtime, and travel required.
Required Qualifications
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- Night Shift availability
- Full-Time employment
- Clinical oversight capability
- Therapeutic setting experience
- Physician order carrying out
- Patient assessment and treatment plan initiation
- Patient care direction
- Therapy and education group and individual
- Referral for intake and continuum of care
- Treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions application
- Patient goal meeting
- Clinical documentation
- IV administration
- Medication administration
- Family member education
- Teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers
- Ongoing assessments of patient needs
- Health status conditions evaluation
- Patient response to interventions evaluation
- Nursing care plan development and maintenance
- Patient care assignment making
- Non-employee nursing staff supervision and evaluation
- Staffing schedule review and adjustment
- Medication and IV administration authorization compliance
- Physician order carrying out
- Patient/Family education regarding medication administration
- Patient disorder needs education
- Benefits education
- Disease prevention education
- Basic living skills education
- Comprehensive nursing assessments completion
- Psychiatric metric measures completion
- Medical chart documentation organization
- Medical record compliance with completion, filing, retrieval
- Safe therapeutic environment maintenance
- Sanitized environment maintenance
- Assigned task completion with minimal supervision
- Personnel performance supervision
- Patient rights policy adherence
- Patient anonymity respect
- Patient record confidentiality respect
- Patient identity communication confidentiality
- Patient address communication confidentiality
- Patient situation communication confidentiality
- Patient signs and symptoms observation
- Patient therapy progress evaluation
- Patient findings identification
- Patient findings interpretation
- Attention or notification requirement identification
- Licensed physician order acceptance
- Medication inventory maintenance
- Medication secure storage
- Complaints and incidents investigation
- Complaints and incidents documentation
- Federal and state laws compliance
- Accreditation compliance
- Policies and procedures compliance
- Patient rights adherence
- Abuse and neglect adherence
- Seclusion and restraint adherence
- Infection control adherence
- Professional ethics adherence
- Cultural competency adherence
- Advance directives adherence
- Friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner
- Advance Directives implementation
- Prescribing order questions bringing to practitioner
- Patient information timely completion
- Patient information timely filing
- Patient information accessible retrieval
- Entry dating
- Entry timing
- Entry authentication
- Verbal orders utilization
- Consultative evaluations results inclusion
- Complications inclusion
- Hospital acquired infections inclusion
- Unfavorable drug reactions inclusion
- Medical chart inclusion
- Pharmaceutical services provision
- Infection transmission prevention
- Infection exposed persons identification
- Infection treatment provision
- Infection preventative measures provision
- Logistics issues management
- Early identification of patients requiring isolation
- CDC guidelines adherence
- Personal protective equipment utilization
- Isolation techniques utilization
- Hand washing hygiene promotion
- Hand washing hygiene monitoring
- Alcohol based sanitizer utilization
- Antibiotic resistant infection prevention
- Device associated bloodstream infection prevention
- Central venous catheters care
- Tube feedings care
- Indwelling catheters care
- Disinfectants utilization
- Antiseptics utilization
- Germicides utilization
- Manufacturer instructions adherence
- Medical equipment appropriate use
- Nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions adherence
- Communicable diseases education
- Communicable diseases methods education
- Transmission reduction education
- Reportable disease requirements compliance
- Discharge plans development
- Discharge plans reassessment
- Discharge plan arrangements
- Post-hospital care arrangements
- Unnecessary discharge delays avoidance
- Patient transfer
- Patient referral
- Necessary medical information transfer
- Appropriate facilities transfer
- Agencies transfer
- Outpatient services transfer
- Emergency care provision
- Drug and violence free workplace promotion
- Drug and violence free workplace adherence
- Drug and violence free workplace monitoring
- Continuing education standards meeting
- Basic qualifications meeting
- Standard nursing practice awareness
- Geriatric patients knowledge
- Mentally ill patients knowledge
- Violent patients de-escalation skills
- Assaultive behavior prevention
- Self-injurious behavior early intervention
- Problem solving ability
- Crisis situation decision making
- Restraint systems equipment use
- Restraint system knowledge
- Population specific needs knowledge
- Patient behavior identification techniques
- Patient event identification techniques
- Environmental factor identification techniques
- Restraint or seclusion trigger circumstances recognition
- Nonphysical interventions skills
- Restraint safe application
- Seclusion safe application
- Restraint physical distress recognition
- Restraint psychological distress recognition
- Restraint necessity identification
- Seclusion necessity identification
- Restraint patient physical well-being monitoring
- Restraint patient psychological well-being monitoring
- Respiratory monitoring
- Circulatory monitoring
- Skin integrity monitoring
- Vital signs monitoring
- Hospital policy associated one-hour face-to-face evaluation
- First aid techniques knowledge
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation periodic recertification
- Death reporting requirements knowledge
- Hospital policies knowledge
- Procedures knowledge
- Abuse knowledge
- Neglect knowledge
- Patient care knowledge
- Patient safety knowledge
- Incident reporting knowledge
- Incident investigation knowledge
- Compliance in regulations knowledge
- Federal and state laws knowledge
- Accreditation policies and procedures knowledge
- Seclusion and restraint policies and procedures knowledge
- Patient rights policies and procedures knowledge
- Universal precautions knowledge
- Communicable diseases control methods knowledge
- Ethics knowledge
- Compliance knowledge
- Cultural competency knowledge
- Advance directives knowledge
- Legal aspects knowledge
- IV administration knowledge
- Fluid and electrolyte balance knowledge
- Blood components knowledge
- Venipuncture techniques knowledge
- DSM IV diagnosis knowledge
- Psychotropic medication knowledge
- Medication side effects knowledge
- Patient treatment plans knowledge
- Needs inventory knowledge
- Strengths inventory knowledge
- Goals inventory knowledge
- Legal aspects of clinical practice knowledge
- Professional standards knowledge
- Hospital mission knowledge
- Mental illness stigma reduction promotion
- Persons served knowledge
- Persons served rights knowledge
- Needs of persons served advocacy
- One (1) year of clinical nursing experience
- Geriatrics and/or mental health experience preference
- Accredited school of nursing graduation
- Registered Nursing Degree
- Current State Registered Nursing License
- Current CPR Certification
- Current CPI Certification
- Unscheduled overtime willingness
- Week-end work willingness
- Flexible hours willingness
- Travel requirement acceptance
- Microsoft Excel usage
- Microsoft Word usage
- Microsoft Outlook usage
- HRIS learning ability
- Scheduling systems learning ability
- Standard Office Equipment usage
- Computer usage
- 40 pounds lifting capability
- Standing capability
- Walking capability
- Sitting capability
- Bending capability
- Reaching capability
- Kneeling capability
- Pushing capability
- Pulling capability
- Safety rules following
- Unsafe working conditions reporting
- Unsafe behaviors reporting
- Unsafe practices prevention
- Analytical Thinking
- Data gathering
- Data analysis
- Appropriate conclusion reaching
- Timely problem solving
- Customer Service
- Interpersonal skills
- Emotional situations dealing
- Difficult situations dealing
- Prompt customer needs responding
- Accountability
- Own decisions acceptance
- Own actions acceptance
- Own results acceptance
- Dependable behavior maintenance
- Crisis behavior maintenance
- Complexity behavior maintenance
- Attendance
- Consistent work presence
- Consistent work timeliness
- Work responsibilities coverage
- Meeting arrival timeliness
- Lunch and breaks appropriate returns
- Communication
- Clear speaking
- Clear writing
- Persuasive speaking
- Persuasive writing
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