Psych Registered Nurse
Company: Mount Sinai Hospital
Location: Chicago
Posted on: January 12, 2026
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Job Description:
Registered Nurse - Psychiatry Department The Albert J. Lurie
Psychiatric Unit (6 East) is a 28-bed adult inpatient acute
psychiatric unit for patients 18 years of age and older admitted
voluntarily or involuntarily with a primary diagnosis of acute
mental illness and present as a danger to self and/or others. The
most common psychiatric diagnoses we treat include depression,
schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar affect
disorder. We provide our patients with a safe and therapeutic
treatment environment. We reintegrate patients into the community
in the safest and most appropriate setting and with links to the
most appropriate outpatient treatment resources. Services we offer
include multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment, psychotropic
medication management, group activities, activities of daily
living, therapeutic milieu, electroconvulsive treatment and linkage
to outpatient services. Multi-disciplinary treatment involves a
medical director, attending psychiatrists, internist, advance
practice nurses, registered nurses, mental health workers, unit
secretaries, occupational therapist, activities coordinator,
Thresholds hospital liaison staff, patient care coordinator and
unit director. General Summary Provides nursing care by
individualizing interventions for patients with problems of routine
nature Utilizing the nursing process, identifies complex variables
and inter-relationships of the assessment data Participates in
discharge planning needs into plan for care and initiates processes
to obtain necessary referrals to assist patient / family and
expedite discharge Implement physician and nursing orders as
appropriate involving patient, family and significant others
Minimum Requirements Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. 1
year of nursing experience. Currently licensed as a Registered
Professional Nurse in the State of Illinois. CPR
Keywords: Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago , Psych Registered Nurse, Healthcare , Chicago, Illinois
