Registered Nurse (RN) - Mental Health
Corvallis, Oregon
Posted Aug 28
- Shift
- Nights
- Hours a week
- 36
- Unit
- Psych
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- Nights · 36 hours
- Term
- Permanent
- Setting
- Behavioral Health
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 1+ years
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- Above most OR staff postings
OR staff postings that state pay run $39/hr to $74/hr, the middle half $48/hr to $66/hr, across 242 postings.
About this role
Job summary/purpose
The Registered Nurse (RN) is accountable for utilizing the nursing process to provide safe, age-appropriate, direct and indirect patient care, while practicing within the scope of practice of the Oregon State Board of Nursing.
Assess, evaluate, and intervene in the bio-psychosocial aspects of late adolescent, adult and geriatric patients and their significant others, who are in an acute phase of mental or emotional disturbance.
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Department description
The Mental Health teams at Samaritan Health Services provide a full range of professional mental health services through a team of highly skilled psychiatrists, psychologists, nurse practitioners and licensed clinical social workers.
Experience/education/qualifications
Current unencumbered Oregon RN license required.
Healthcare Provider Level BLS required. Other certifications may be required for department specific positions.
Minimum of one year recent experience in an acute care setting preferred.
Knowledge/skills/abilities
Computer Literacy - Knowledge of electronic equipment, computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. Ability to operate applications, write software, set up functions, enter data, and manipulate and process information.
Critical thinking - Ability to analyze, organize, prioritize and make effective critical decisions.
Problem Solving - Ability to identify complex problems, review related information, employ creativity and alternative thinking to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. Possess skills to make appropriate, independent decisions or seek help appropriately. Ability to initiate proper action and accept responsibility for such actions. Demonstrates professional accountability.
Patient Care - Possess the skills and knowledge needed to assist and care for others. Ability to recognize symptoms, drug properties and interactions, treatments, and preventive health-care measures within scope of practice. Ability to assess, evaluate and reassess, using the nursing process; the ongoing needs of the patient, patient's family and organize resources to meet those needs. Knowledge of role for applicable Plain Language Alerts.
Walk - incline
- LIFT (Floor to Waist: 0"-36") 40 - 60 Lbs
- LIFT (Knee to chest: 24"-54") 20 - 40 Lbs
- LIFT (Knee to chest: 24"-54") 40 – 60 Lbs
CARRY 2-handed, 40 - 60 pounds
SQUAT Static (hold 30 sec)
KNEEL (on knees)
PUSH (40 - 60 pounds force)
PULL (40 - 60 pounds force)
Walk – level surface
- LIFT (Floor to Waist: 0"-36") 0 - 20 Lbs
- LIFT (Floor to Waist: 0"-36") 20 - 40 Lbs
- LIFT (Knee to chest: 24"-54") 0 – 20 Lbs
CARRY 2-handed, 20 - 40 pounds
SQUAT Repetitive
BEND FORWARD at waist
PUSH (0 - 20 pounds force)
PUSH (20 - 40 pounds force)
PULL (0 - 20 pounds force)
PULL (20 - 40 pounds force)
SIT
Stand
Climb - stairs
LIFT (Waist to Eye: up to 54") 0 - 20 Lbs LIFT (Overhead: 54" and above) 0 - 20 Lbs
CARRY 1-handed, 0 - 20 pounds
CARRY 2-handed, 0 - 20 pounds
ROTATE TRUNK Sitting
ROTATE TRUNK Standing
REACH - Upward
PINCH Fingers
GRASP Hand/Fist
REACH - Forward
MANUAL DEXTERITY Hands/wrists
Finger dexterity
Location: Samaritan Health Services · GSR Mental Health
Schedule
.9 (72 hrs/pp), Night
Application details and notices
Physical demands
Rarely
(1 - 10% of the time)
Occasionally
(11 - 33% of the time)
Frequently
(34 - 66% of the time)
Continually
(67 – 100% of the time)
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Requirements
- RN
- Oregon RN license
Place
- City
- Corvallis, Oregon
- Rent against this pay
- 13% of monthly gross
- Local household income
- $65,012/yr
- Metro price level
- 4% above the national average
$1,391 median rent against $10,920 a month at $70/hr for 36 hours a week, before tax. Census ACS 2024.
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Corvallis area index 104.0, where 100 is the national average.
Home to Oregon State University, Corvallis blends college-town energy with easy access to the Willamette Valley's vineyards and trails. Nurses enjoy a tight-knit community feel, seasonal farmers' markets, and a slower Pacific Northwest pace.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
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Psychiatric is open from year one. Behavioral health spans inpatient, emergency, and community settings.
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