Registered Nurse - Inpatient Psychiatry Full time Days

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Description:

BayRidge Hospital was opened in 1996, providing inpatient, partial hospitalization, outpatient behavioral health, and substance use treatment.  Located in Lynn, MA, it provides a full continuum of mental health services to public and private patients.  Centrally located in Lynn, BayRidge is easily accessible from Route 1, only 15 minutes from Boston, MA, and 10 minutes from the Northshore.  

An RN assumes responsibility for providing skilled, creative, high-quality nursing care to patients by assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care on a 24-hour basis from admission to discharge. 

32 hours/week 8-hour Shifts

Essential Functions/Key Responsibilities:

• Assess, plan and implement care on all observed symptoms, reactions, treatments, and changes in the patient’s status. Report and record any findings to the MD and charge nurse
• Perform the role of medical nurse when assigned, assist the consulting internist and Nurse Practitioner with exams and perform treatments, tests and procedures as ordered
• Monitor the patient milieu for safety issues and assist with promoting a positive therapeutic environment
• Respond to patient care needs and issues, assist patients with personal hygiene and other activities of daily living. Collaborate with and direct other nursing staff to assist with any patient nursing needs
• Admit, discharge and transfer patients to and from department/unit ensuring that patient safety is addressed and monitor patient valuables during belongings search

Qualifications

• Degree in nursing preferred from an accredited school of nursing 
• Current professional license registration (RN license) in Massachusetts
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
• Must be fluent in English (verbal and written)

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

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