Registered Nurse, 36 Hrs Weekly, 1st Shift, Crisis Stabilization Unit (Kalamazoo)

$8,000 Start Up Bonus

Cost Center

Scheduled Weekly Hours

36

Work Shift

First Shift (United States of America)

Shift & Status

12-Hour shift (7am-7:30pm)
Every other weekend required

Who Are We?

We at Pine Rest believe in the power of healing and that everyone in our community has the right to expert care for mental health and substance use disorders. We are much more than just the third largest non-profit behavioral health system in the country, our 220-acre main campus, and our network of clinical sites across Michigan. We are a tight-knit community of healers who witness the impact of our life-changing work each day.

Each day, we are closing the gaps in access to care. We are innovating through leading-edge research, testing, programs, and treatment modalities that others replicate across the country. Our services include a state-of-the-art psychiatric urgent care center and a soon-to-be-built pediatric behavioral health center, outpatient, inpatient, partial hospitalization (day programs), assessment and testing, residential, addiction treatment and specialty services such as crisis response, employee assistance programs, forensic psychiatry and psychology, and neuromodulation. On-the-job educational programs for nurses, psychologists, advanced practice providers, psychiatrists, and chaplains are equipping the next generation of care providers.

We are passionate about serving and are honored to be a part of this incredible work.

About the Unit:

CSU's provide a short-term alternative to emergency departments and psychiatric hospitals, where patients experiencing a mental health crisis can receive immediate care. The first CSU in Kalamazoo, located at 1701 Olmstead Road, is currently under construction and expected to open July 1st, 2025.

The goal of implementing the CSU is to eliminate stress on hospital staff who handle overcrowding in emergency departments, while connecting mental health patients with the correct care. Once a patient arrives to the CSU, they will undergo a 15-minute assessment. Length of stay could range from 2 to 72 hours. The CSU will be open 24 hours, and equipped with 12 bedrooms, lounge spaces and a dining area.

What Will You Do?

As a Registered Nurse at Pine Rest, you’ll be part of tight-knit team that believes in the healing power of your expertise and compassion. An RN is responsible and accountable to perform the nursing process as a basis for patient care. RNs provide direction and oversight to other licensed and non-licensed staff. Pine Rest RNs show compassion to recipients of services, coworkers, and surrounding communities through integrity, stewardship, empowerment, the promotion of diversity, and professional excellence. 

Our RNs are driven to make an impact in the lives of those we serve and are motivated by the healing they witness first-hand each day. They are dedicated to excellent customer service, enthusiastic about the care we offer, and foster a sense of belonging and empowerment in a diverse workplace.
 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assesses person’s served care needs, develops a plan of care in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, and continually reassesses plan of care according to person’s served care needs.

• In collaboration with the physician, provides/coordinates nursing care to individuals and groups of person’s served.

• Assists in the teaching of persons’ served families, and provides milieu management. Communicates with and educates persons’ served families/significant others in discharge/after care planning needs.

• Provides a safe and secure environment for persons served and staff in both individual and group settings.

• Responsible for documenting, reporting, and verifying all necessary information according to established policies and procedures.

• Responsible to monitor for and report to the physician(s) any potential risk to person’s served safety that could lead to an adverse outcome.

• Creates a customer/client friendly environment by following quality improvement standards, maintaining professionalism, initiating and maintaining positive relationships with departments/programs, co-workers and external customers.

• Provides care in various clinical settings with diverse person’s served populations. Identifies specific person’s served needs and implements person’s served centered, compassionate care.

• Functions as a clinical leader, delegating/coordinating staff assignments and promoting staff development.

• Responsible for the utilization and