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Acute Mental Health Registered Nurse

Halton Healthcare

Oakville, Ontario
Provide evidence-based nursing care as a Registered Nurse in Halton Healthcare’s acute mental health unit through rotating 12-hour shifts. Assess patients and support therapeutic care.
This permanent full-time RN serves adult in-patient mental health patients within a multidisciplinary team. The position requires mental status examinations, therapeutic interventions, patient and family teaching, and knowledge of mental health legislation. Case management principles support consistent care throughout each admission, with recovery and hope as critical values.
Key Responsibilities:

Assess patients with acute mental health needs
Perform thorough mental status examinations
Implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions
Provide individual and group therapeutic interventions
Apply case management principles throughout admissions
Requirements:

Current good-standing registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario
At least one year of acute mental health experience
Non-violent crisis intervention training
Knowledge of Ontario mental health legislation
Ability to establish therapeutic alliances with clients
Bring psychiatric mental health nursing expertise, empathy, and crisis resolution skills to Halton Healthcare’s adult inpatient unit.

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