Adult Psych Nurse

Overview

As our Psych Nurse at CHI St Vincent Infirmary, you’ll help our patients and their families feel comfortable and educated when they’re making significant healthcare decisions.

Our patient population needs hands-on nursing to be able to identify patient needs when they are not able to articulate what they are experiencing.

You’ll build trust in these interactions by advocating, supporting, and educating your patients and their families. Your success in this role comes from your empathy and patience to help others during a vulnerable time in their lives.

You’ll get to be involved in patient improvement that can take a patient from disorientation to opening up and sharing their personality.

About Us :

CHI St Vincent Infirmary is a 600 bed faith-based, non-profit, acute care facility providing quality health care to patients and communities from all over the State of Arkansas.

Our level II trauma center is a regional referral center for cardiology, trauma, behavioral health, cancer care, neurosciences, and other specialties.

We have been consistently named by US News & World Report as one of the State’s best hospitals, with high performance in heart care, colorectal surgery, and joint replacement.

If you are committed to social justice, health equity, and prepared to deliver care in new, innovative ways, you belong with us.

Responsibilities

• You’ll routinely conduct rounds, physical assessments of patients, and med pass during your shift to diagnose the medical and emotional status of patients.
• You’re interacting with the patients throughout your shift so you’ll be the eyes and ears to notice any difference in patient health and behavior.

You’ll be responsible for alerting the physician of any changes you notice.

We encourage a communal patient population so you can expect to interact with patients in a group setting and lead therapeutic group meetings with them as scheduled.

You’ll also coordinate and work with the activities director for our unit.

We provide an important education component for patients and their caregivers so you’ll be expected to thoroughly explain diagnosis and plans for ongoing treatment to patients

Qualifications

• Unencumbered license to practice in the State of Arkansas
• 6 months of acute care experience is required (new graduates or nurses who have never worked in an acute care setting are hired through our residency training program)
• Previous Psych experience is preferred, but not required
• BLS through the American Heart Association is required
30+ days ago