Registered Nurse - Medical Unit I Medical Behavioral Specialty Unit
Monmouth Medical Center - Southern Campus
Lakewood, New Jersey
RN · Psychiatric · Mental Health
Posted Jul 23
- Shift
- Days
- Unit
- Psych
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- Days
- Term
- Permanent
- Practice
- Epic charting
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- $11/hr below the median
The median for Psychiatric in New Jersey is $57/hr, across 8 postings.
About this role
Registered Nurse (RN) role at RWJBarnabas Health - Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus, Medical Behavioral Specialty Unit (2 West), an 18-bed inpatient unit caring for patients with both acute medical conditions and co-occurring behavioral health conditions. Responsibilities include conducting comprehensive patient assessments, providing evidence-based medications and treatments, serving as clinical partner to physicians, providing patient and family education, ensuring accurate EMR documentation, and contributing to interdisciplinary rounds.
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Requirements
- RN
- New Jersey Registered Nurse license
- Active New Jersey Registered Nurse license in good standing
- Current American Heart Association BLS certification
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (strongly preferred)
- Prior patient care experience
- Comfort with electronic medical record systems (EMR) like EPIC
- Acute care experience
- Telemetry
- Cardiac rhythm analysis
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Prescription drug insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
Place
- City
- Lakewood, New Jersey
- Median rent
- $1,718/mo
- Local household income
- $56,968/yr
- State price level
- 9% above the national average
- Address
- 600 RIVER AVE, LAKEWOOD, NJ, 08701
- CMS overall rating
- 3 of 5 stars (Care Compare, Sep 2026)
- Beds
- 201
- RN residency
- ANCC-accredited: Rwjbarnabas Health Graduate RN Residency Program at Monmouth Med Ctr Southern, through Jul 2029
rent and tenant-paid utilities
all local households, not nurse pay
New Jersey index 108.8, where 100 is the national average.
Lakewood sits in Ocean County within reach of the Jersey Shore's beaches. The township blends quiet residential blocks with a bustling downtown anchored by one of the world's largest yeshivas. Nurses here serve a tight-knit, fast-growing community where suburban convenience meets coastal New Jersey living.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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The building runs all-private inpatient rooms and serves Ocean and Monmouth counties, with a geriatrics institute, senior membership programming, expanded cancer services, and a Lantern Award–recognized ED. On the floor you might land med-surg telemetry with postoperative surgical patients, the…
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Psychiatric is open from year one. Behavioral health spans inpatient, emergency, and community settings.
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