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Prime Healthcare

Acquires and reorganizes underperforming hospitals

Behavioral Health RN

Nursing & Frontline Patient CarePosted on Nov 10
Full-timeKansas City, MO, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Maintain a current and valid state license as a Registered Nurse.
  • Have a current BLS certificate upon hire and maintain it.
  • Have working knowledge of mental health laws and practice standards.
  • Have working knowledge of the interdisciplinary treatment team process, behavioral health programming, and daily nursing functions for inpatient and outpatient behavioral health units.
  • Have working knowledge of the continuum of care for behavioral health care.

Responsibilities

  • Provide direct nursing care to patients with acute mental and behavioral health needs in an inpatient setting.
  • Observe, monitor, and document patient behavior, mental status, and safety risks.
  • Assist with crisis intervention and de-escalation to promote unit safety.
  • Collaborate with registered nurses, providers, and the interdisciplinary care team.
  • Treat and educate patients about mental and medical conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and/or family members.
  • Help manage therapeutic groups, psychiatric crisis intervention, and patient seclusion and restraint.
  • Record patients' medical histories and symptoms, help perform diagnostic tests, and analyze results.
  • Administer treatment and medications, and help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation.
  • Consult patients and their families on managing illness or injury, diet and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and physical therapy.

About the Company

Prime Healthcare

Acquires and reorganizes underperforming hospitals

Prime Healthcare operates a network of hospitals and outpatient centers across the United States, concentrating on turning around financially struggling facilities. It invests in infrastructure and technology, restructures operations, and negotiates payer terms (including pursuing higher out-of-network reimbursements) to improve financial performance, and it manages both for-profit hospitals and not-for-profit facilities through the Prime Healthcare Foundation. The company aims to raise clinical quality and patient safety while expanding access in hundreds of communities, though it has faced legal and regulatory scrutiny over billing practices and service-line decisions. Its goal is to stabilize and improve the financial and clinical performance of underperforming hospitals so they can continue serving their communities.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$2.2B
Headquarters
Ontario, CA
Founded
2001

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