RN Behavioral Health / Behavioral Health Inpatient

Now hiring for the region's first-of-its-kind Behavioral Health & Wellness Center. A place where innovation meets compassion. Positions are anticipated to start in October of 2025.  

Schedule:   Part time or Full time, Days or Nights - 12hr Shifts

Hiring Bonus: $10,000

At Children’s Nebraska, our mission is to improve the life of every child through exceptional care, advocacy, research and education. As the state’s only full-service pediatric healthcare center, we provide comprehensive, holistic care to our patients and families—from primary and specialty care to behavioral health services and everything in between. Dedicated to a People First culture, we foster an environment with joy, belonging, wellbeing, learning and growth. Turn your passion into purpose and make a difference where it matters most. 

A Brief Overview
Functions as a member of the interdisciplinary team. Primary responsibility to care for patients with behavioral health needs. Utilizes the nursing process in the delivery of comprehensive and developmentally appropriate care to high-risk behavioral patients and their families. Acts as a psychiatric resource for the team by providing clinical support, monitoring compliance with system policies, guidelines, documentation, and by maintaining a safe environment for patients with behavioral health needs. Responds to behavioral emergencies throughout the building and collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to ensure patient and staff safety. Is knowledgeable of the regulatory standards related to the care of hospitalized patients with behavioral health needs and ensures compliance with those standards.

Essential Functions

• Conducts individualized age-specific patient/family assessments according to defined unit scope and nursing practice standards, appropriate collaborative problems (CPG's)/nursing diagnoses (ND's), or protocols. (Individualized refers to the patient’s developmental, cognitive, cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, and educational/family influences and physical/medical care needs.) 
• Admission/Initial Assessment: 
  • Collects and documents data related to patient’s individualized care. 
  • Demonstrates age-specific competency in assessment of patients by the ability to obtain and interpret information in terms of the patient needs, knowledge of growth and development, and understanding of the range of treatment needed by these patients. 
  • Assesses patient/family need for education and uses an individualized approach in delivery style. 
  • Assesses family expectations for, and involvement in the assessment and continuous care or treatment of the patient. 
  • Identifies nursing diagnoses, collaborative problems, and/or protocols for each patient, based on assessment, at the time of admission. 
• Shift Assessment/Reassessment 
  • Performs reassessment based on unit standards, CPG's/ND's, protocols and changes in patient condition. Communicates changes to appropriate persons (MD, Charge RN, family) as indicated. 
  • Utilizes appropriate telephone etiquette.
• Develops individualized patient/family plan of care using CPG/ND’s, and practice guidelines/protocols to meet identified needs in collaboration with Behavioral Health Team. (Plan of Care includes current and anticipated actions focused on care, education, discharge needs.) 
  • Utilizes assessment data from the healthcare team to individualize appropriate goals and actions for the patient, including collaboration with the family and the healthcare team. 
  • Utilizes individualized assessment data to develop the patient/family’s plan of care. 
  • Formulates goals and outcomes based on assessment data. 
  • Revises plan of care based on patient’s condition, interdisciplinary input, and family needs. 
  • Demonstrates ability to prioritize patient interventions based on assessments/reassessments
• Implements and evaluates nursing actions in accordance with the individualized patient/family plan of care and patient condition/needs. 
  • Oversees that the nursing and interdisciplinary plan of care/goals are coordinated, implemented, evaluated, and revised as needed. Identifies the need for interdisciplinary involvement/outside resources and follows through. Uses appropriate resources (Charge Nurse, CNS/Educator, Director, MD, etc.) to ensure that clinical outcomes are achieved. 
  • Incorporates critical thinking into the delivery of clinical skills and in analyzing patient response to orders, tests, labs, medications, and treatments. 
  • Demonstrates clinical competence in administering interventions according to identified standards and age specific needs. 
  • Provides and/or coordinates wit