Registered Nurse (RN) - Psych Intake
National City, CAFull-time$48.48–66.83/hrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Registered Nurse (RN) - Psych Intake role at Paradise Valley Hospital assesses walk-in and phone callers and connects them with appropriate services or resources. The nurse coordinates and prioritizes inpatient bed reservations and placement to support admission to the appropriate level of care, and advises, informs, and assists physicians and their offices before and during hospitalization regarding hospital policies and procedures.
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Overview
Join an award-winning team of dedicated professionals committed to our core values of quality, compassion and community! Paradise Valley Hospital, a member of Prime Healthcare, offers incredible opportunities to expand your horizons and be part of a community dedicated to making a difference. Paradise Valley Hospital is the South Bay’s oldest hospital, the second oldest hospital in all of San Diego County, and the largest employer in National City. For more than 100 years, Paradise Valley Hospital has served San Diego faithfully, proud of our heritage and providing numerous programs and services to meet the changing needs of our community. Our 291-bed, acute care hospital features the San Diego Spine & Joint Center, a highly credentialed acute rehabilitation center, our Paradise Health & Senior Center, a fully equipped and modern cardiac catheterization lab, and comprehensive inpatient and outpatient surgical services, and 24-hour emergency services. In addition to our healthcare services, we offer comprehensive behavioral health services on the hospital campus and Bayview campus in Chula Vista. Services include psychiatric continuum of care for adult patients, inpatient services, and intensive outpatient services. Learn more at https://www.paradisevalleyhospital.net/.
Responsibilities
Assesses the needs of walk-in and phone callers and ensures their referral to the service or resource that best addresses those needs. Coordinates and prioritizes in-patient bed reservations and placement; ensure the seamless admission of the patient to the appropriate level of care. Is responsible for advising, informing and assisting the physician and the physician’s office before and during hospitalization; informs them of hospital policies and procedures relative to their patient’s stay.
Qualifications
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING
- Must have current valid license as a Registered Nurse issued by the State.2. BSN/Master’s degree in health-related field preferred.3. Current BCLS certificate upon hire and maintain current.4. Minimum two (2) years’ experience with Inpatient Psychiatric Care and two (2) years’ experience in coordinating level of care assessment.
Pay Transparency
Paradise Valley Hospital offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that provides employees the flexibility to tailor benefits according to their individual needs. Our Total Rewards package includes, but is not limited to, paid time off, a 401K retirement plan, medical, dental, and vision coverage, tuition reimbursement, and many more voluntary benefit options. Benefits may vary based on collective bargaining agreement requirements and/or the employment status, i.e. full-time or part-time. The current compensation range for this role is $48.48 to $66.83. The exact starting compensation to be offered will be determined at the time of selecting an applicant for hire, in which a wide range of factors will be considered, including but not limited to, skillset, years of applicable experience, education, credentials and licensure.
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Equal Employment Opportunity
Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. Company prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (subject to applicable law), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Know Your Rights: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_screen\_reader\_10\_20.pdf
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Privacy Notice for California Applicants: https://www.primehealthcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Notice-at-Collection-and-Privacy-Policy-for-California-Job-Applicants.pdf
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FacilityParadise Valley Hospital
LocationUS-CA-National City
ID2026-288059
CategoryRN
Position TypeFull Time
ShiftNights
Job TypeNon-Exempt
How this job compares
Set against the 58,608 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 9, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$48.48–66.83/hr
- California median$54–75/hr1,494 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr24,816 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $57.66/hr, is 9% below the California median midpoint ($63/hr) — in the middle half of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,345 open Registered Nurse jobs in California and 58,608 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kaiser Permanente286 open
- Health Advocates Network219 open
- Sutter Health162 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (28,761 postings).
- Education
- 4,108 of the 58,608 open Registered Nurse jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 9, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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