8-Hour - RN II BSC - Acute-Psychosis/Subacute-ROTP Unit
Houston, Texas
Posted Aug 22 · Not open to new grads
- Shift
- 8-hour days
- Hours a week
- 40
- Unit
- Psych
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 8-hour days · 5 a week · 40 hours
- Weekends
- No weekends
- Term
- Permanent
- On the floor
- Precepting expected
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
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- Experience
- 1+ years
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About this role
UTHealth Houston’s Behavioral Sciences Campus, the largest academic psychiatric hospital in the nation, is hiring Staff Nurse II Behavioral Sciences Campus positions to work 8-hour (Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm), 40-hour workweek shifts. There will be one (1) 8-hour nurse/unit to work alongside the team of 12-hour nurses. Join a team committed to compassionate care, professional growth, and making a meaningful impact in behavioral health.
About the unit for this position: 1D is an acute-Psychosis and subacute-ROTP unit. The Recovery-Oriented Treatment Program (ROTP) is a voluntary, extended inpatient program providing individualized, recovery-focused care for adults with psychosis.
What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.
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Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:
- 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
- Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
- The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
- Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
- Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...
- Free financial and legal counseling
- Free mental health counseling services
- Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
- Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
- Resources for child and elder care
- Plus many more!
Position
Summary
Assesses patients' medical and psychiatric needs and provides professional nursing care in response to this assessment. Directs and supervises the delivery of care by other nursing team members (LVNs and Psychiatric Technicians) in an inpatient psychiatric setting.
Position Key Accountabilities
- Assesses patient needs, plans and implements patient care activities and evaluates the patient's response to the treatment.
- Assists patient and families in discharge planning, including instructions concerning medications, safety issues post-discharge, home care, potential problems and appropriate follow-up for additional support needed.
- Participates in regularly scheduled team conferences and collaborates with the related health care providers in treatment, discharge planning and provisions of care.
- Functions as the liaison between patients and physicians, other multidisciplinary team members and community agencies/resources.
- Documents patient care and outcomes per hospital policy and accrediting agencies.
- Administers medication and other therapeutic interventions, as ordered by the physician.
- Makes decisions based on experience and training as to whether emergency situation exists and responds to emergency situations. May administer CPR and/or other first aid measures.
- Remains abreast of developments in the field of nursing by attending seminars and workshops, communicating with peers and reading pertinent literature.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Certification/
Skills
- None
- Manages Human Resources activities of department in regards to: recruiting and selection, hiring and termination, training, professional development, mentoring, counseling, performance evaluations, and salary planning.
- Registered Nurse (RN) State Licensure or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) by Texas Board of Nursing (BON) required
- Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) by American Red Cross or American Heart Association (AHA) required
Minimum
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an accredited nursing school with one year nursing experience required Associate's Degree in Nursing from an accredited nursing school with three years of nursing experience required Nursing Diploma (3 year program) with two years of nursing experience required ADN with two years of experience at HCPC as a Staff Nurse I required
Minimum
Experience
Years of experience varies based on education level required
Physical
Requirements
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive
This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C. F. R. §791.4.
Residency Requirement
Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.
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Requirements
- Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Place
- City
- Houston, Texas
- Median rent
- $1,361/mo
- Local household income
- $64,813/yr
- Metro price level
- 1% below the national average
- Address
- 7000 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030, USA
rent and tenant-paid utilities
all local households, not nurse pay
Houston area index 98.6, where 100 is the national average.
Houston is a sprawling, diverse metro where world-class medical centers anchor a booming healthcare economy. The nation's fourth-largest city offers no state income tax, year-round warmth, and a food scene as varied as its population. Bayou-side greenways and museum districts balance the urban energy for nurses seeking opportunity in a place that never stops growing.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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UTHealth Houston (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) is Texas' resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. As one of the nation's most comprehensive academic health centers with more than half a…
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Psychiatric is open from year one. Behavioral health spans inpatient, emergency, and community settings.
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