Job Description

Due to rapid expansion in all of our clinics, we are offering a $3,000 sign on bonus. We are eager to be able to continue to serve clients in our service areas and need you to make this happen!

Compass Health is looking for a Registered Nurse to work at Royal Oaks Hospital providing direct and indirect patient care in a psychiatric setting. This individual maintains standards of Professional Nursing Practice and participates as an interdisciplinary team member responsible for overall coordination of care and services delivered to clients. They will work collaboratively with members of the health care team to provide patient/family education. Demonstrating competency to provide age appropriate care to preadolescents (3-12), adolescents (13-17), adults 18 and older including geriatrics is essential in this role. This position is classified as Category I and may involve tasks with exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues.

In the absence of nurse volunteers, prn nurses, flex team nurses secured by reasonable efforts or contracted temporary agency staff and if qualified reassignments cannot be made, the hospital may require mandated overtime to fulfill obligations based on the Missouri Nurse Practice Act to perform patient care which is required.

Other responsibilities of the registered nurse:

Requires leadership and team skills
Requires effective verbal, written and nonverbal communication skills
Possesses cognitive, organizational and emotional abilities and maturity to deal effectively with multiple stressors, deadlines and difficult situations
Provides direct patient care to assigned age groups
Requires working with aggressive patients; participates in physical intervention techniques
Requires physical strength, agility, and endurance for heavy lifting, moving patients and equipment Requires bending, lifting, and transporting patients
Acts as a Preceptor and educator to new employees
Participates in mandatory overtime

Associates degree in nursing required
Bachelors degree in nursing preferred

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION

RN valid in Missouri

Compass Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and an E-Verify participant.
Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Tags

Full time, Relief, Relocation bonus, Flexible hours,

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