Registered Nurse (RN) / Behavioral Health AC

Registered Nurse

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH) is a private, nonprofit community-based healthcare system that provides care to a 22-county region in North Florida and South Georgia. We are a career destination with over 6,000 colleagues who reflect the diversity of our community. TMH is the region's healthcare leader and top provider of advanced care with a 772-bed acute care hospital and the region's only Level II Trauma Center, Primary Stroke Center, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care, and Pediatric Intensive Care. Our system also includes a psychiatric hospital, multiple specialty care centers, six residency programs, and more than 50 affiliated physician practices.

Job Description

• Assumes direct and indirect responsibility for the patient's care environment.
• Provides care through collaboration with team members and the autonomous application of the nursing process.
• Provides leadership, mentoring, and role modeling for other members of the health care team.
• Responsibilities include coordination and delegation of care in a safe, secure, and clean environment.
• Ensures care provided displays respect for the patient's rights, dignity, values, confidentiality, and expressed needs.
• Is adaptable, using evidence-based practice and information technologies while maintaining focus on providing comfort, relieving pain, and alleviating anxiety.
• Practices under the Department of Nursing and within the scope of the Florida Nurse Practice Act.
• Follows all policies, procedures, and requirements, and actively supports a commitment to the mission and vision of TMH, consistently displaying behaviors in harmony with the ICARE values.

Requirements

• Required Education: Graduate of approved school of nursing
• Preferred Education: Bachelor Degree in Nursing
• Required Experience: None
• Preferred Experience: Two (2) to five (5) years experience as a RN
• Required Certification/License/Registry: Current licensed in the State of Florida to practice professional nursing (RN). Must have a current Basic Life Support (BLS) or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification from an accredited instructor from the American Heart Association (AHA) and/or other specialized life support requirements designated by work area.