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What's It Like For Behavioral Health Professionals?
Agnieszka M., RN
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"The main attraction for me at John Muir Health is the fine quality of patient care. I can't imagine a stronger group of professionals who bend over backwards to accommodate patients' needs. What's unique is that Behavioral Health is a small hospital in big health system...so the professional and personal rapport makes coming to work a pleasure!"
Tadd T., RN, PHN
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"I was hired as a new grad and paired with a Master's prepared RN with 30 years experience who had been a Director of Nursing. Not many new grads have a mentor with that depth of experience. So I got to test my sea legs in a supervised and safe manner. I learned the ropes, and thanks to her, transitioned from new grad to staff nurse in adult psychiatric inpatient acute care nursing."
At the John Muir Behavioral Health Center, we provide outstanding support, psychiatric interventions, diagnoses, state-of-the-art treatment plans, clean and comfortable facilities, and continuing education in a warm and safe environment. The Behavioral Health Center is comprised of registered nurses; licensed vocational nurses and psychiatric technicians; mental health counselors; unit secretaries; creative therapists in art, music and movement; recreational therapists; social workers; intake/assessment and utilization review nurses; and a clinical nurse coordinator. They all work together to provide quality care to our patient population.
We offer complete inpatient and outpatient Behavioral Health programs and services throughout our fully-accredited, 73-bed psychiatric hospital located in Concord. The Center offers inpatient psychiatric treatment for adults, children and adolescents who are experiencing emotional or behavioral problems. For those who are dependent on alcohol or drugs, we offer a full array of chemical dependency treatment programs.
In the past 25 years, we've successfully treated and rehabilitated over 30,000 individuals with psychiatric problems and/or chemical dependencies. Our outpatient services include adolescent day treatment and after-school programs, adult psychiatric day treatment and CD day programs, intensive morning and evening outpatient programs as well as a residential facility.
Behavioral Health partners with four Bay area nursing schools to provide clinical training for their BSN, MSN programs as well as colleges and universities for social service, creative therapies, and counselor clinical pre-creatorship training. This offers staff the opportunity to teach new nurses, social workers, counseling staff, and creative therapists while updating their skills and knowledge.
Our staff is a mixture of experienced and new graduate nurses, and our orientation programs are individualized to meet the learning needs of every new hire. Nurses who are selected have the critical thinking skills to make decisions, and the Nurse Managers work with staff to develop required competencies in the specialty of Psychiatric Nursing. During the orientation period, new hires complete on-line courses, classroom lectures, and clinical preceptorships in their assigned unit, based on individual needs. Nurses have the opportunity to be cross-trained in other units to gain flexibility and expand their skill base.
We are committed to maintaining quality outcomes and improving our practice through collection, analysis, and utilization of data from the interdisciplinary quality indicators. Unit-based quality representatives are charged with data collection and education of peers regarding goal benchmarks to improve patient safety and patient outcomes. We also participate in the Joint Commission Psychiatric Core Measures.
To make your mark in adult psychiatric acute care nursing, consider applying to John Muir Health.