Psychiatric Emergency Nursing

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center - Lebanon, NH

Various shifts available

Our Crisis Behavioral Health Emergency Department unit consists of 6 beds supporting high-risk mental health patients during a critical psychiatric events. Our care team’s priority is to provide therapeutic nursing care in a safe and controlled environment to stabilize their illness while developing a healthy care plan. As the primary nurse, you will work  with our crisis team, the psychiatric and emergency physician/nursing team, care managers and security staff. An effective candidate will have a passion for critical care psychiatric nursing, empathy, and demonstrate a compassionate approach, a high level of emotional intelligence and be diligent in their work environment to provide one-on-one support for patient needs.

Key Details:

• Work alongside a high-acuity care team in a fast-paced, purpose-driven and unique setting
• Provide direct, individualized support to patients in crisis
• Ideal candidates will be emotionally resilient and deeply patient-focused

Shift Options:
We offer a variety of 12-hour rotating shifts to meet almost any schedule including: 7am–7pm, 10am–10pm, 11am–11pm, 1pm–1am and 7pm–7am

If you’re motivated to make a real impact in the lives of patients facing behavioral health challenges, we invite you to become part of our Zone B team.

Hear from one of our nurse managers in their own words:

“The Emergency Department at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is a dynamic, innovative, and ever-evolving environment, comprised of a high-acuity main ER, a cutting-edge "Landing Zone" designed for rapid intervention and specialized procedures for critically ill patients, and a dedicated Behavioral Health Emergency Department focused on providing safe, compassionate mental health care. This unique structure allows for highly specialized, efficient, and patient-centered emergency services across a wide spectrum of needs.”

~ Debra Goodrum, RN, Clinical Nurse Educator and Nurse Leader – Emergency Department

These are just a few highlights of being a psychiatric emergency nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire.

• We have loan repayment up to $20,000
• We offer Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to help take on the burden of finding a home.
• We have competitive nursing rates
• We offer generous tuition reimbursement
• We have a very popular "earned time" plan
• We have extensive CEU/Training programs
• We offer professional development pathways to advance your career

Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized health system in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We understand that “quality of life” means different things to different people, but we are confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends, family, pets, or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic is a line at the chair lift on the ski mountain.

Read more about Dartmouth Hitchcock and why YOU should work here.

We are Dartmouth Health, one integrated, award-winning health system of diverse facilities across New Hampshire and Vermont. From rural critical access clinics to academic medicine and research, you will find the opportunity, training, benefits, and support to help you thrive in your career. We are an organization focused on the success of every employee in every role and want you to be part of our team. Join Dartmouth Health and help us shape the future of healthcare.

To learn more about our Psychiatric Emergency Nursing careers, please visit us at:

https://dhnursing.org/nursing-careers/?search_keywords=emergency

Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

How can the lifestyle in New Hampshire and Vermont compliment your career? You can have amazing 4-season living with a career at one of the top health systems in the country. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock; 4 affiliated hospitals and 30 Dartmouth-Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. We are close to the urban centers of Boston, New York and Montreal, but also offer proximity to the seacoast and multiple top-tier ski mountains within a short driving distance. Throughout New Hampshire, the opportunities – both career and personal – truly make our area the ideal place to work and play.Dartmouth-Hitchcock is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without ...regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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