Travel Nurse RN - Psychiatric
Cincinnati, OH
Protouch Staffing
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Travel RN: Pediatric Behavioral Health, Night Shift

Location: Cincinnati, OH 45229
Specialty: Pediatric Behavioral Health / Inpatient Psychiatry (Psychiatric Resource Unit)
Start date: Dec 1, 2026
Contract length: 14 weeks
Shift: 12-hour nights, 3x12 (7:00 PM to 7:00 AM), 36 hours/week
Weekends/Holidays: Every other weekend and every other holiday required

About the Role

A nationally recognized children's hospital in Cincinnati is seeking a travel RN for night shift on its locked, inpatient child and adolescent psychiatric unit. The unit is a crisis stabilization setting for hospitalized children and adolescents ages 4 to 18, with a daily census of about 15 and a 1:4 patient ratio.

What You'll Do

• Pass medications and complete nursing assessments

• Handle admissions and discharges

• Perform nursing interventions for acute and chronic mental health diagnoses, with documentation in Epic

• Facilitate therapeutic groups

• Complete safety checks

• Assist with ADLs (meal supervision, bathing, toileting, laundry)

• Engage patients in recreational play, such as games and gym time

• Respond to codes and use de-escalation techniques

• Provide 1:1 sitter supervision for high-risk or acute patients on the unit or in the Emergency Department

• Attend rounds and share updates with the team

• Build 1:1 connections with assigned patients and provide patient and family education

• Take charge duties if you have charge experience (a plus, with charge pay)

Patient population: ADHD, DMDD, bipolar disorder, psychosis, intermittent explosive disorder, depression and aggression. You will also care for moderately to severely intellectually disabled adolescents with autism, including some who are non-verbal.

Requirements

• Active Ohio RN license or compact license

• 2 years of RN experience in the specialty, including 1+ year in a psychiatric setting

• Pediatric experience (required)

• 1 year of travel experience

• Current BLS

• 2 manager references within the past 12 months at the time of submission

• Strong communication and relationship-building skills

• Able to lift 25 lbs and take part in physical holds and restraints (securing a patient's arm or leg while on the ground)

• Willing to wear behavioral PPE (provided by the hospital) at all times

• Epic charting experience

• Flu vaccine required, with no exemptions (medical or religious). No declinations allowed.

Preferred:

• Experience with bipolar, anxiety, eating, psychotic and depressive disorders

• Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) certification. If you don't have it, training is provided within the first month of your contract.

• Previous charge experience

• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) training for select positions

Schedule

• 12-hour night shifts, 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM

• Every other weekend

• Every other holiday

• Floating within inpatient psychiatry may be required

• Block scheduling cannot be guaranteed, but the team will try to work with requests. The only block request allowed is weekends only (Fri to Sun).