Nurse Behavioral Health

CHI Mercy Health offers the unique opportunity to grow professionally in a supportive highly rewarding work environment and to satisfy your soul in the surroundings of a breathtakingly beautiful natural setting. More than 100 years after the founding of our organization the core values - Compassion Inclusion Integrity Excellence and Collaboration - that guide our interactions with our patients and each other remain the same. In the welcoming embrace of these nurturing communities you will feel immediately at home. Roseburg is located on Interstate 5 in Southern Oregons scenic Douglas County. The community is nestled in a lush forested region known as the 100 Valleys of the Umpqua. In many places you’ll find it hard to maintain a healthy work-life/personal-life balance because the pace of one is indistinguishable from the other. Not here. Life never stops here but it slows to an easy welcome pace. A traffic jam means you missed the yellow and have to wait for the next green. A terrible parking space is the one across from the restaurant instead of in front of it. And the three words you may never hear are “Wow that’s expensive.” Easy is the best way to describe life here. Hard-to-beat works too.

While you’re busy impacting the healthcare industry, we’ll take care of you with benefits that may include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, adoption assistance, annual bonus eligibility, and more!

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Shift: 6:45pm - 7:15am

Core Schedule: Week 1 Sun, Tue, Wed; Week 2 Mon, Tue, Sat

Job Summary:

Performs duties by applying professional nursing theory and principles, and utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care given to patients.  Works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary health care team in providing patient care.  Demonstrates clinical, organizational and communication skills in dealing with patients, families and other health care workers.

Essential Duties:

• Performs psychiatric assessment including mental status exam, safety assessment, psychosocial data collection and functional status.

• Applies appropriate interventional techniques including, but not limited to, safety of the suicidal patient, use of less restrictive alternatives, safety monitoring, protective devices, seclusion and restraints.

• Documents observations, behavior and interventions in a timely and accurate manner, utilizing psychiatric terms/nomenclature.

• Facilitates psycho-educational groups and community meetings.

• Applies knowledge of psychiatric diagnoses, behavior and medications to the performance of job duties.

• Uses effective listening and communication skills for facilitation of individual patient interactions.

• Performs as a relief Charge Nurse when assigned.  Tasks include assigning staff to quads, overall responsibility for unit during eight-hour shift, screening of patients, placement of patients, managing complaints and problem solving with director/supervisor/designee.

• Practices intervention techniques incorporating the therapeutic concepts covered in MAB (Management of Assaultive Behavior) and NCI (Nonviolent Crisis Intervention) training.

• Coordinates care given by other disciplines to ensure that the patient’s care needs are met and progress toward goals is attained.

• Responds to emergency situations related to combative or violent people that are endangering themselves or others.

• Evaluates situations and uses de-escalation skills to resolve situations.

• Engages in active management of milieu to maintain therapeutic and safe environments.

• Provides trauma informed care and assists with patient behavior management needing physical restraints or seclusion room.  

• Provision of unit milieu safety through patient observations, visitation monitoring and de-escalation interventions.

• Implements intervention techniques incorporating the therapeutic concepts covered in de-escalation training and management of behaviors for patients exhibiting unsafe behavioral symptoms/behaviors.

• Responds to emergency situations related to combative or violent people that are endangering themselves or others.

License/Certifications:

• Current license as an RN issued by the State of Oregon.
• Must have current American Heart Association BLS for Health Care Providers within 30 days of hire.

Experience:

• Knowledge of professional nursing theory, principles, and practices to provide direct patient care appropriate to population of specialty. 
• Ability to apply nursing theory and principles and carry out the nursing process. 
• Needs to have communication and interpersonal skills in relating to public and peers.
• Preference for experience in inpatient psychiatric unit and/or working with mental health patients.

Education:

• Associate's degree in Nursing required.

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