Behavioral Health RN
Kansas City, MO
Care Career
4x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Psychiatric RN – Behavioral Health Travel Contract

📍 Facility: Research Psychiatric Center
📌 Location: Kansas City, Missouri
🌙 Shift: Nights, 7:00 PM–7:00 AM
💻 EMR: Meditech
🏥 Specialty: Inpatient Behavioral Health / Psychiatry
👥 Patient Ratio: Approximately 1 RN to 8 patients
 

Available Units

• ADOL: Adolescent psychiatric unit, ages 12–18; 18 beds
• Serenity: Lower-acuity adult unit; 24 beds
• ITU: Higher-acuity adult unit, including patients with thought disorders; 32 beds
• SRAD: Senior adult psychiatric unit; 16 beds
• VINE: Lower-acuity adult unit; 9 beds

Note: Nurses may float to units based on staffing needs.

Job Responsibilities

• Assess patients' mental health, behavior, and substance-use concerns.
• Develop and implement individualized psychiatric care plans.
• Administer psychiatric medications and monitor for side effects.
• Provide crisis intervention and de-escalation for suicidal ideation, aggression, and behavioral emergencies.
• Use therapeutic communication to build trust and rapport with patients.
• Monitor vital signs, mental status changes, and medication responses.

Requirements

• Active Blue Card with CPI required at submission.
• Current BLS certification.
• Psychiatric/behavioral health nursing experience and skills appropriate to the assigned unit.

• Strong mental health assessment, crisis intervention, medication management, and de-escalation skills.
   

  Schedule & Additional Information

• Coverage is needed across all seven days, including weekends.
• Days off are not guaranteed unless specified in the contract.
• No on-call requirements.
• Nurse-to-patient ratio: approximately 1:8; MHT ratio: approximately 1:12.
• Scrubs: Nurses wear blue; MHTs wear green or black.
• One position listed as available.