Psychiatric RN - Full Time - Sylmar

Responsible for the delivery of psychiatric nursing care/services to members being treated in the behavioral health service departments. Positions assigned to this classification are characterized by providing interventions that: promote and foster health; assess dysfuntion; assist patients to regain or improve their coping abilities; maximize patient strengths and prevent further disability. These interventions focus on the psychiatric-mental health patient and include: health promotion and health maintenance; monitoring patients and assisting them with self-care activities; monitoring psycho-biological treatment regimens; providing triage decisions and facilitating patient movement into appropriate services.

• Coordinates with pharmacy regarding approved medications.


• Provides information and education to members in a variety of forums.


• Documents Services rendered utilizing standard nursing procedures in member chart.


• Triage phone calls and refer to appropriate staff or community resources.


• Assist Psychiatrists with coordinating internal and external hospitalizations of members.


• Performs basic physical assessments of patients including vital signs and monitoring for side effects of psychiatric active medications and referring information to physicians as appropriate.


• Provides prescribed medications to patients per physicians orders following appropriate protocol.


• Utilizes electronic medical record for medication refills.


• Reviews lab results and refers to physician within protocols and guidelines.


• Performs other duties as assigned by the Department Administrator and/or Chief of Psychiatry.

• Minimum one (1) year recent (within the last three (3) years) RN Psychiatric experience.

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing School.

• Registered Nurse License (California)

• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association

• Psychiatric and chemical dependency knowledge.


• Able to triage and evaluate various aspects of the psychiatric population.


• Group leadership skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Telephone triage experience.


• BSN preferred.


• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.


• Experience in a Psych setting and message management.

• One (1) Saturday a month, one (1) evening/week.


• Will cover both clinics (SCL and Sylmar).

PrimaryLocation : California,Sylmar,Sylmar Behavioral Health
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : on, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
WorkingHoursStart : 08:30 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B11-PSC|NUHW|NUHW Psych Social Chapter
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
Department : Sylmar Medical Offices - Mental Hlth/Psychiatry-RegClin - 0806
Travel : No
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