Registered Nurse - Mental Health

Qualifications: Minimum Education AHA CPR required. Associates degree in nursing required bachelor s degree preferred Required Licenses Registered Nurse Current MA License Minimum Work Experience Experience handling crisis and emergency situations. One year acute Psychiatric Inpatient experience desired. Required Skills Ability and desire to work with Mental Health issues and patients who have identified psychiatric/mental health needs. Good interpersonal skills knowledge and skills required for the position. Experience working with substance abuse population preferred. Physical Requirements: Exerts 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction) handles (seizing holding grasping turning or working with hands) and feels (perceiving attributes of items such as size shape temperature or texture by means of fingertips). Occasionally stoops (bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist) and kneels (bending the legs at knee to come to rest on knee or knees). Rapid physical movements (walking rapidly running up and down stairs) and lifting and/or holding of patients extremities may be required in the event of responding to behavioral emergencies (i.e Code100 s).

Shift: 32 Hour Evening

Specialty Type: Nursing

Sub Specialties: Registered Nurse

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