Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

Psychiatric hospital in DeSoto, Texas

Registered Nurse

Nursing & Frontline Patient CarePosted on Nov 8

Full-timeDeSoto, TX, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Must be at least 21 years old.
Must have an ADN or BSN from an accredited college or university.
Must have a minimum of 2 years of clinical experience; behavioral healthcare, phone triage, tele-health, or case management experience, or a combination of education and experience, is preferred.
Must hold a valid Texas RN license in good standing.
Must have current CPR certification upon hire and maintain current CPR and Handle with Care certifications.
Must pass a medication administration exam before administering medications.
Must provide proof of approved AHA/ARC current CPR certification and complete Management of Assaultive Behavior training, including restraint and seclusion policies, before assuming patient-care responsibilities.
Must have knowledge of patient rights and laws pertaining to mental health, regulations related to psychiatric nursing and treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed patients, and theories, principles, and techniques of group and individual psychotherapy.
Must have advanced knowledge and clinical skills in mental-health diagnosis and treatment, professional nursing principles and procedures, and the social, psychological, and physical factors of mental and emotional disorders.
Must know medical and psychological terminology, medications including psychotropic drugs and their effects on psychiatric patients, and medication control, preparation, and administration.
Must have basic knowledge of treatment procedures, interventions for acute psychosis, non-violent crisis intervention, and medical and psychiatric emergency procedures.
Must have basic knowledge of abnormal psychology in child and adolescent psychiatric populations and medical terminology associated with psychiatric care for children, adolescents, and adults.
Must be familiar with psychopharmacy and the use of psychotropic medications with child, adolescent, or adult psychiatric populations.
Must be able to apply professional nursing care principles and procedures to the evaluation and treatment of psychiatric patients and develop therapeutic interpersonal relationships with them.
Must communicate effectively with diverse individuals and function calmly in situations requiring sensitivity, tact, and diplomacy.
Must exercise appropriate judgment when answering questions and releasing information and analyze and project the consequences of decisions or recommendations.
Must handle confidential information sensitively.
Must have well-developed verbal and written communication skills in English and communicate effectively to exchange or provide information and build or maintain cooperative relationships.
Must interact effectively with people in diverse roles, backgrounds, cultures, and socioeconomic classes, including people in crisis or resistant or negative toward the organization.
Must be skilled in facilitating or co-facilitating process-oriented and didactic groups.
Must have problem-solving, prioritization, and time-management skills, crisis-intervention skills, and self-control in potentially volatile situations, including verbal or physical confrontation; must remain flexible when handling differences of opinion.
Must be able to perform the listed physical activities, including stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, and grasping, and perceive object attributes by touch.
Must be able to convey detailed or important spoken instructions accurately, sometimes quickly and loudly.
Must meet the stated hearing and visual acuity requirements, with or without correction.
Must be able to perform repetitive motions with the wrists, hands, and fingers.
Must be able to perform light work most of the time and occasional medium work at the stated force limits.
Must be able to work predominantly indoors and may be exposed to temperature changes, blood, body fluids, non-intact skin, or tissue specimens.

Responsibilities

Deliver general and psychiatric nursing care to hospitalized patients receiving treatment for psychiatric or emotional disorders, supporting the hospital and program philosophy of care and ensuring patient safety and well-being.
Assess patient-care needs; plan and implement nursing procedures; evaluate patient progress; and modify care plans as needed.
Teach patients and their families.
Direct nursing support staff work through appropriate delegation and supervision.
Render competent care based on current developmental theory and psychiatric nursing knowledge and standards, evaluate care against the goals and plan of care, and revise it periodically as appropriate.
Plan and provide nursing care through interaction with patients, their significant others, and appropriate healthcare providers; collect and analyze data on physical, psychosocial, environmental, self-care, educational, spiritual, cultural, and anticipated discharge needs.
Identify each patient's needs and incorporate them into an individualized care plan, considering disease, condition, impairment, or disability severity.
Provide direct patient care, including addressing social and emotional needs, supervising medication schedules, evaluating patient progress and access to appropriate levels and settings of care.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary professionals to determine and provide appropriate patient care.
Create and encourage opportunities for patients to receive social support through support groups, social activities, and other therapeutic measures.
Conduct intake assessments by interviewing patients and relatives to gather case histories.
Make nursing diagnoses of patients' medical and emotional status and recommend treatment options.
Consult with psychiatrists and other behavioral-health staff to design appropriate treatment plans.
Maintain accurate records of patient treatments, immunizations, laboratory results, reactions to psychotropic drugs and other medications, charts, activities, and progress in accordance with medical-record standards and hospital policies and procedures.
Help clients understand emotional disturbances and accept the need for treatment.
Comply with applicable laws, rules, regulations, protocols, and procedures.
Use professional judgment to select and apply appropriate intervention techniques with patients in crisis.
Help maintain a safe and secure environment for staff and patients.
Assess pain through vital signs, ensure pain treatment, and arrange further medical attention when necessary.
Perform administrative tasks, including filing, answering phones, and entering progress notes into the computer.
Organize activities and schedules for medical and non-medical tasks for child, adolescent, and adult patients and support staff during a shift.
Maintain patient confidentiality.
Uphold the organization's ethics and customer-service standards.

Desired Qualifications

Behavioral healthcare, phone triage, tele-health, or case management experience is preferred; a combination of education and experience is also considered.
Basic teaching and training skills are a plus.
BLS certification is a plus.

Registered Nurse - (7A-7P) FullTime - rotating weekends

Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital · Desoto, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-08

Workplace: on_site

Department: Nursing

Description

Job Summary

The RN is responsible for delivering quality general/psychiatric nursing care to patients who are hospitalized for treatment of psychiatric or emotional disorders; to support the hospital and program philosophy of care; to ensure the safety and well-being of each patient. The Psychiatric RN will provide professional nursing care to patients according to hospital policy and procedure; will assess patient care needs, plan and implement nursing care procedures, evaluate patient progress and modify care plans as necessary; will provide teaching to patients and their families; will direct the work of nursing support staff through the use of appropriate delegation and supervision skills.

Essential Duties:

§ The care and treatment of the patients are rendered in a competent manner and are based on current developmental theory and psychiatric nursing knowledge and standards; care is evaluated against the goals and plan of care and is revised periodically, as appropriate.

§ Plans and provides nursing care for patients through a systematic process of interaction with patients, the patient's significant others, and the appropriate health care providers, collects and analyzes data regarding the patient's physical, psychosocial, environmental, self-care, educational, spiritual, cultural, and anticipated discharge needs.

§ Ensures each patient's unique needs are identified and incorporated into a comprehensive, individualized care plan including the severity of the disease, condition, impairment/disability as important elements of the plan.

§ Provides direct care to patients, which includes facilitating social and emotional needs, supervising medication schedules, evaluating patient progress and patient's access to the appropriate level of care and setting.

§ Collaborate with interdisciplinary professionals to determine and provide the best possible care for patients.

§ Provides social support for patients by creating and encouraging patients to take advantage of opportunities such as support groups, social activities and other therapeutic measures.

§ Conducts intake assessments through interviews with patients and relatives to gather case history.

§ Makes nursing diagnosis of the medical and emotional status of patients and recommends treatment options.

§ Consults with psychiatrists and other behavioral health staff in designing appropriate treatment plans for clients.

§ Maintains accurate records and documentation of patient treatments, immunizations, laboratory results, notes reactions to psychotropic drugs and other medications, written charts, patient activities and progress according to standard medical record keeping and hospital policy and procedures.

§ Assists the client in understanding the nature of emotional disturbances and accepting the need for treatment.

§ Complies with laws, rules, regulations, protocols, and procedures.

§ Uses professional judgment to ascertain and to apply appropriate intervention techniques with patients in crisis

§ Assists in maintaining a safe and secure environment for staff and patients.

§ Tests for vital signs of pain and ensures treatments of pain and arranges further medical attention when necessary.

§ Performs administrative tasks such as filing, answering phones and computer entry of progress notes.

§ Organizes the activities and schedules for medical and/or non-medical tasks of the Child, Adolescent and Adult and support staff for a given shift.

§ Maintains patient confidentiality.

§ Upholds the Organization's ethics and customer service standards.

Requirements

Must be 21 years old or older

Education - ADN or BSN from an accredited college or university.

Experience – Minimum of 2 years clinical experience, preferably in a behavioral healthcare setting, phone triage, tele-health or case management or combination of education and experience. Basic teaching and training skills a plus.

Required Licenses - Valid Texas RN license in good standing is required. Current CPR upon hire. BLS and Handle with Care certifications a plus.

Additional Requirements - Must pass a medication administration exam before administering medications. Must provide proof of approved (AHA/ARC) current CPR maintain approved CPR certification prior to hire as well as successful completion of Management of Assaultive Behavior training including restraint and seclusion policies prior to assuming patient care responsibility. Must maintain current CPR and Handle with Care. Violators will be suspended up to termination if not compliant within 1 week of expiration.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

§ Knowledgeable of patient rights and laws pertaining to mental health and regulations pertaining to psychiatric nursing and the treatment of the mentally and emotionally disturbed patients. Theories, principles, and techniques of group and individual psychotherapy. Symptoms and behavior patterns of emotionally disturbed mentally ill patients.

§ Advanced knowledge and clinical skills in diagnosis and treatment of mental health, professional nursing principles, procedures, and techniques used in the care and treatment of psychiatric patients, social, psychological, and physical factors of mental and emotional disorders.

§ Knowledgeable of medical and psychological terminology, medications, including psychotropic drugs, and effects on psychiatric patients as well as control, preparation and administration of medications.

§ Displays basic knowledge of treatment procedures; interventions common to acute psychotic as well as non-violent crises intervention practice, medical and psychiatric emergency procedures.

§ Basic knowledge of abnormal psychology as typically found in the child or adolescent psychiatric population, application of this knowledge to child, adolescent or adult knowledge of medical terminology, especially those terms associated with child, adolescent or adult psychiatric care; thorough familiarity of psychopharmacy and the use of psychotropic medications with child, adolescent or adult psychiatric population, basic teaching and training skills helpful; problem-solving; organizational and time management; crisis intervention skills

§ Ability to apply professional nursing care principles and procedures in the evaluation and treatment of psychiatric patients. Develop interpersonal therapeutic relationships with psychiatric patients.

§ Communicate effectively with a variety of individuals and function calmly in situations, which require a high degree of sensitivity, tact, and diplomacy.

§ Ability to exercise appropriate judgment in answering questions and releasing information; analyze and project consequences of decisions and/or recommendations.

§ Ability to handle confidential information with great sensitivity.

§ Well-developed verbal and written communication skills in English. Skill to communicate effectively in order to exchange and/or provide information, build and/or maintain cooperative relationships.

§ Ability to effectively interact with persons of widely diverse roles, backgrounds, cultures, and socio-economic classes, those in crises or resistant or negative toward organization.

§ Displays basic knowledge of treatment procedures; interventions common to acute psychotic as well as non-violent crises intervention practice.

§ Skilled in facilitating and/or co-facilitating process-oriented and didactic groups.

§ Skilled in problem solving, prioritizing and time management

§ Crisis intervention skills and the ability to exercise self-control in potentially volatile situations such as being verbally or physically confronted in a threatening or aggressive manner; must be flexible and not easily frustrated in dealing with differences of opinions.

Physical Requirements/Environmental Conditions

§ Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, grasp, and be able to perceive the attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature, and/or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips.

§ Ability to express and exchange ideas via spoken word during activities in which they must convey detail or important spoken instructions to others accurately, sometimes quickly and loudly.

§ Hearing to perceive the nature of sound with no less than 40 db loss @ Hz, 1000 Hz, and 2000 Hz with or without correction; ability to perceive detailed information orally and make fine discriminations in sound.

§ Perform repetitive motions with wrists, hands, and fingers.

§ Light work most of the time, exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently; and occasionally medium work, that is exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently.

§ Work requires a minimum standard of visual acuity with or without correction that will enable people in the role to complete administrative and clerical tasks and visually observe patients on the unit and in therapeutic activities.

§ While worker may possibly be subjected to temperature changes, the worker is generally not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions as the work is predominantly inside.

§ Job usually involves contact with patients or patient specimens. Exposure to blood, body fluids, non-intact skin or tissue specimens, is possible.

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About the Company

Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

Psychiatric hospital in DeSoto, Texas

Dallas Behavioral is a private psychiatric hospital in DeSoto, Texas, treating children, adolescents and adults in the Dallas area. It provides inpatient care for acute mental health needs and structured outpatient treatment for people who need support while living at home. Programs address conditions such as depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder, as well as mental illness combined with substance use. Psychiatrist-led teams assess each patient and use talk therapies to build a treatment plan around the person's clinical needs. The hospital also coordinates discharge plans and follow-up appointments with patients, families and community providers.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Not listed
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