- Specialty
- Psych
- Type
- Travel
- Shift
- Days
- Hours
- 36/week
- Duration
- 13 weeks
Job description
Care Career is seeking a travel nurse RN Behavioral Health for a travel nursing job in Louisburg, North Carolina.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Behavioral Health
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
Position: Registered Nurse – Behavioral Health / Psychiatric Nursing
Job Type: Travel Contract
Shift: Nights | 12-hour shifts
Weekly Guaranteed Hours: 36 hours
Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend
Openings: 1
Experience Required: Minimum 1 year
Start Date: Based on available facility orientation dates
Contract Duration: 13 weeks
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 1 year of nursing experience
- Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
- Current CPI, NVCI, or HWC certification
- Strong behavioral de-escalation skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to provide safe psychiatric nursing care
- Willingness to float between adult and geriatric behavioral health units
- Availability for night shifts and every other weekend
An active RN license appropriate for practice in North Carolina will need to be verified before assignment.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide nursing care to adult and geriatric behavioral health patients.
- Assess and monitor patients' psychiatric and physical health.
- Administer medications and monitor treatment responses.
- Recognize behavioral changes and implement appropriate nursing interventions.
- Apply crisis prevention and verbal de-escalation techniques.
- Maintain a safe and therapeutic environment.
- Collaborate with psychiatrists, physicians, therapists, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Document assessments, interventions, and patient progress in the electronic health record.
- Educate patients and families about treatment plans and ongoing care.
- Float between adult and geriatric behavioral health units as needed.
Schedule Details
- Shift: Nights, 12-hour shifts
- Guaranteed Hours: 36 per week
- Weekend Rotation: Every other weekend
- On-Call: None
- Floating: Between adult and geriatric behavioral health units
Travel Eligibility
- Candidates must reside at least 60 miles from the facility to qualify for travel consideration.
- Candidates within the local radius may be considered under separate local-rate terms, subject to facility approval.
- Assignment start must align with an available orientation date.
About Care Career
Care Career brings together a portfolio of leading healthcare staffing organizations, each delivering specialized talent solutions across the industry. Wherever you want to go, We Make It Happen.
With travel nursing jobs across the country, you can discover the possibilities that create the lifestyle and financial position that you have dreamed of.
Care Career is a modern, transparent staffing firm creating the ultimate community of US.
Benefits
- Referral bonus
- Weekly pay
- Medical benefits
- Continuing Education
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits