Registered Nurse (RN) - $5k SIGN-ON
Wichita Falls, Texas
Red River Hospital is looking to add compassionate RNs to our nursing team! Red River Hospital is a specialty hospital.
- Eligibility
- Shift and hours
- 12-hour nights
- Unit and setting
- Psych · Behavioral Healthdedicated military personnel
- License
- RN license Must possess a current Registered Nurse (RN) license as required by Texas or be eligible to practice nursing in accordance with state requirementsTexas RN license or eligibility to practice per state requirements
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- New grads
- Welcomed New Graduates welcome to apply!
- License
- Texas RN license or eligibility to practice per state requirements Must possess a current Registered Nurse (RN) license as required by Texas or be eligible to practice nursing in accordance with state requirements Check your license
- Certification
- First aid First aid may be required based on state or facility requirements.
- Education
- graduation from an accredited school of nursing Must have graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
- Experience
- one year of nursing experience One year of nursing experience; previous psychiatric, mental, behavioral, or substance use disorder (SUD) nursing experience a plus
Preferred
- Experience
- psychiatric, mental, behavioral, or substance use disorder nursing experience
Your six-month RN application plan
Start about six months before graduation. Some programs open earlier; use each employer’s application dates.
6 months before
Shortlist units
Check application windows. Gather clinical experience, references and your expected graduation date.
Find residencies4–6 months before
Apply as windows open
Apply before graduation when the program allows it. Keep the cohort date and license deadline with each application.
Explore new grad jobs2–3 months before
Meet the unit manager
Ask about overtime, a shadow shift, preceptor continuity and the schedule after orientation.
Prepare your questionsAround graduation
Confirm your start
Coordinate NCLEX, the required license and your start date. Get relocation and repayment terms in writing.
Plan your license
Why start this early?
Advocate describes a 6–9 month application runway for several regional RN programs. These milestones are a planning guide, not deadlines for every employer. See program calendars.
What it pays
- Pay differential
- Evening Differentials - ($2/hr) Evening Differentials - ($2/hr)
- Weekend differential
- Weekend Differentials - ($3/hr) Weekend Differentials - ($3/hr)
- Sign-on bonus
- $5,000
- Bonus
- $5,000 $5,000 SIGN ON BONUS
- Extra pay
- $2/hrEvening
- Extra pay
- $3/hrWeekend
- Pay reviews
- salary based on experience, paid bi-weekly Competitive Salary based on experience, paid out on a bi-weekly basis!
Benefits
- Sign-on bonus
The role and schedule
- Patients
- adolescents ages 12 through 17 Adolescents (ages 12 through 17)
- Day to day
- assess physical and behavioral health needs and coordinate care Provide and coordinate care by assessing patients’ physical and behavioral health needs.
- Day to day
- develop and implement nursing care plans Develop and implement nursing care plans.
- Day to day
- maintain medical records and educate patients and families Maintain medical records and educate patients and their families about various physical and behavioral health conditions.
- Day to day
- provide nursing care within professional standards and regulatory scope
- Day to day
- verify verbal physician orders are legible and transcribe them per policy Ensure physicians’ orders are legible if taken verbally and transcribed appropriately per policy and procedure.
- Day to day
- assess patient status continuously and document pertinent information Ensure patients’ status is assessed on an ongoing basis and pertinent information is gathered and documented.
- Day to day
- notify physicians of significant changes in patient status
- Day to day
- complete initial nursing treatment plans upon admission Ensure that initial nursing treatment plans are completed upon admission and that all nursing treatment plans are specific to assessed needs.
- Day to day
- utilize universal precautions in direct patient care Demonstrate knowledge and utilization of universal precautions in providing direct patient care.
- Day to day
- administer medications accurately per orders Accurately administer medications per ordered note.
- Day to day
- document controlled substance administration counts Document accurate count of controlled substance medication administration on required documents.
- Day to day
- process admissions and discharges accurately Complete admission and discharge processing efficiently and accurately as directed.
- Day to day
- maintain therapeutic rapport and professional boundaries with patients Exhibit therapeutic rapport with patients by maintaining professional boundaries, respecting personal space, giving patients direct attention, and maintaining rational detachment.
- Day to day
- provide unit direction and coordinate unit activities Provide direction or coordinate the activities of the unit as directed.
- Day to day
- communicate therapeutically and professionally with patients, visitors, and co-workers Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patients, visitors, co-workers, and others involved inpatient treatment.
- Hours stated
- 7:00 - 7:00
- Details
- 96-bed acute psychiatric facility We are a private 96-bed acute psychiatric facility in Wichita Falls, TX. and are the leading provider of inpatient and outpatient behavioral healthcare in the area.
The workplace
Job listings for this hospital have advertised a $5,000 sign-on bonus for registered nurses. Wichita Falls runs on roughly twelve-minute commutes with little congestion, so getting to a shift rarely eats into your morning.
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range and sign-on bonus repayment terms?
- What should I expect for weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
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Your fit
On your path
Psychiatric is open from year one. Behavioral health spans inpatient, emergency, and community settings.
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Red River Hospital is looking to add compassionate RNs to our nursing team!
$5,000 sign on bonus
We are a private 96-bed acute psychiatric facility in Wichita Falls, TX. and are the leading provider of inpatient and outpatient behavioral healthcare in the area.
Our treatment services & specialized programs address drug and alcohol addiction and co-occurring mental illness.
Available schedule
- Full-Time
- Night shift
- 7:00 - 7:00
Evening Differentials - ($2/hr)
Weekend Differentials - ($3/hr)
Red River Hospital provides mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment to the following populations:
- Dedicated military personnel
- Adults
- Seniors
- Adolescents (ages 12 through 17)
Competitive Salary based on experience, paid out on a bi-weekly basis!
New Graduates welcome to apply!
Excellent career advancement opportunities!
Registered Nurse Essential Functions
Provide and coordinate care by assessing patients’ physical and behavioral health needs. Develop and implement nursing care plans. Maintain medical records and educate patients and their families about various physical and behavioral health conditions.
Provide nursing care and services within the standards and scope of nursing practice as defined within the state Nurse Practice Act regulations, policies, procedures, and protocols, as well as facility and corporate policies and procedures. Ensure physicians’ orders are legible if taken verbally and transcribed appropriately per policy and procedure. Ensure patients’ status is assessed on an ongoing basis and pertinent information is gathered and documented.
Notify physicians of significant changes in status such as difficulties with detox, medical emergency, change in medical status regarding response to medications, and related challenges. Ensure that initial nursing treatment plans are completed upon admission and that all nursing treatment plans are specific to assessed needs. Demonstrate knowledge and utilization of universal precautions in providing direct patient care.
Accurately administer medications per ordered note. Document accurate count of controlled substance medication administration on required documents. Complete admission and discharge processing efficiently and accurately as directed.
Exhibit therapeutic rapport with patients by maintaining professional boundaries, respecting personal space, giving patients direct attention, and maintaining rational detachment. Provide direction or coordinate the activities of the unit as directed. Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patients, visitors, co-workers, and others involved inpatient treatment.
Education/Licensure/Experience/Skill Requirements
Must have graduated from an accredited school of nursing. Must possess a current Registered Nurse (RN) license as required by Texas or be eligible to practice nursing in accordance with state requirements One year of nursing experience; previous psychiatric, mental, behavioral, or substance use disorder (SUD) nursing experience a plus CPR and de-escalation and restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility). First aid may be required based on state or facility requirements.
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What's around it?
Wichita Falls, TXFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 11% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,022/mo
- Household income
- $60,177/yr, all local households, not nurse pay