RN - Behavioral Health

Job Title: RN – Behavioral Health
Location: Brooklyn, NY, 11213
Duration: 12/30/2025 – 03/28/2026
Shift: All Shifts Needed – 3x11.5
Additional Notes: Inpatient and Psych ER experience required; 2 years’ experience
Pay Range: $60-$65/hr.

• The Registered Professional Nurse is responsible for prescribing, delegating, and coordinating all nursing care using standards of care and practice.

• Provides comprehensive mental health nursing care to adult psychiatric and substance abuse patients aged 16 and older.

• Functions within the nursing process in collaboration with the healthcare team to meet patient and family needs.

• Assesses physical, social, and psychological status through observation, patient interview, and review of medical data.

• Documents a complete nursing assessment including fall risk, pain, suicide risk, nutrition, psychosocial and environmental factors, educational level, and discharge needs.

• Identifies care needs related to substance abuse, prolonged neuroleptic use, and mental illness.

• Continuously reassesses patient condition and communicates findings with the healthcare team.

• Formulates, prioritizes, and documents nursing diagnoses aligned with assessment data.

• Includes physiological, psychosocial, emotional, and educational needs.

• Creates and documents patient-centered, measurable goals aligned with nursing diagnoses.

• Identifies patient education needs and discharge planning requirements on admission.

• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to execute the plan of care.

• Provides nursing care including identifying withdrawal symptoms, managing agitated or suicidal patients, administering medications, and managing psychiatric emergencies using non-violent crisis intervention.

• Maintains infection control standards.

• Provides health teaching and counseling individually and in groups.

• Participates in treatment planning, medical rounds, and interdisciplinary meetings.

• Performs procedures per mental health nursing standards and demonstrates competency.

• Investigates, resolves, and documents unusual occurrences.

• Delegates and guides ancillary personnel appropriately.

• Performs other duties as required.

• Interprets, communicates, and documents patient responses to nursing and medical interventions.

• Revises the care plan based on evaluation and interdisciplinary input.

• Evaluates patient and family understanding of discharge teaching.

• Includes standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing, bending, and some repetitive motions.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made if they do not compromise patient care.

• Knowledge in PMCS.

• Inpatient and Psych ER experience required (per schedule notes).

• One year medical/surgical nursing experience preferred.

• NYS RN License.

• BCLS required.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred.

• NYS RN License

• BCLS