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RN - Registered Nurse - Full-Time
South County Mental Health CenterDelray Beach, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Jun 2025
About the role
Come grow with us! South County Mental Health Center, Inc. is a private, non-profit Joint Commission Accredited Behavioral Healthcare provider located in South East Palm Beach County, Florida. Situated in the nationally designated city of Delray Beach, the Center provides a broad spectrum of inpatient and outpatient care to clients and their families in surrounding communities.
Job Summary: Provides in-patient psychiatric nursing care to all clients in crisis with the goal of stabilization.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
DIRECT NURSING / CLIENT CARE
Medical specialties:
Job Summary: Provides in-patient psychiatric nursing care to all clients in crisis with the goal of stabilization.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
DIRECT NURSING / CLIENT CARE
- Administer medication.
- Educate clients on medication.
- Intervene verbally and/or physically with clients who are out of control.
- Lead Hygiene – HIV/AIDS – Nutrition – Substance Abuse Groups, etc.
- Assist clients with activities of daily living.
- Answering questions from families and involve families in treatment when feasible, and promote wellness within the family unit.
- Complete nursing physical assessment on each client.
- One-to-one care, as indicated.
- Monitor restraints, suicide and homicide precautions, close observations and timeouts, etc., and follow all standards.
- Place client on 24 hour nursing precautions, as needed.
- Monitor special diets.
- Draw blood and/or collect other laboratory specimen samples.
- Minor wound care as indicated.
- Assess clients’ somatic complaints.
- Evaluate medical emergencies
- Team meeting with staff.
- Admit clients to CSU – Administrative admission.
- Develop treatment plans with clients.
- Monitor client charts for doctors’ orders and accuracy reviews.
- Write progress notes on clients’ symptoms, activities, or significant behaviors.
- Initiate and record restraint and seclusion process.
- Record medications and side effects or lack thereof.
- RN Licensed in Florida
- Must be knowledgeable in areas of client rights, Baker Act, confidentiality regulations, and abuse regulations.
- Knowledge of medications and side effects; risk of addiction, blood borne pathogens, OSHA Standards.
- 1 year experience in Psychiatric/Mental Health
Medical specialties:
- Psychiatry/Mental/Behavioral Health
- Acute care – Crisis Stabilization Unit
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