Registered Nurse (RN) - Psych Acute
La Palma Intercommunity Hospital
La Palma, CAFull-time$46.52–62.54/hrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Registered nurses in this acute behavioral health role treat and educate patients, provide emotional support, run therapeutic groups, and respond to psychiatric crises. They document histories and symptoms, assist with diagnostic testing, administer treatments and medications, and support follow-up and rehabilitation. The hospital describes a 141-bed community acute-care setting and offers a benefits package that includes paid time off, retirement, health coverage, and tuition reimbursement.
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Overview
Join an award-winning team of dedicated professionals committed to our core values of quality, compassion and community! La Palma Intercommunity Hospital, a member of Prime Healthcare, offers incredible opportunities to expand your horizons and be part of a community dedicated to making a difference.
Founded in 1972, La Palma Intercommunity Hospital is a 141-bed acute-care community hospital and the only hospital in La Palma. Our highly qualified team is committed to providing outstanding service in a safe, comfortable, and caring environment. Patients treated at La Palma Intercommunity Hospital benefit from the expertise of a large hospital system in a smaller, more personal setting. For more information visit www.lapalmaintercommunityhospital.com.
Responsibilities
Registered nurses (RNs) perform basic duties that include treating patients, educating patients about mental and medical conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients’ and/or family members, running therapeutic groups, psychiatric crisis intervention, seclusion and restraint of patients. RNs record patients’ medical histories and symptoms, help to perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operate medical machinery, administer treatment and medications, and help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation. RNs teach patients and their families how to manage their illness or injury, diet and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and physical therapy. Other related duties.
Qualifications
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING
- Must have current and valid State license as a Registered Nurse.2. Current BLS certificate upon hire and maintain current.3. Working knowledge of Mental Health Laws and practice standards. 4. Working knowledge of interdisciplinary treatment team process, behavioral health programming and daily nursing functions for inpatient and outpatient behavioral health units. 5. Working knowledge of the continuum of care for behavioral health care.
Pay Transparency
La Palma Intercommunity 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. A reasonable compensation estimate for this role, which includes estimated wages, benefits, and other forms of compensation, is $46.52 to $62.54. 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.
Employment Status Full Time Shift Nights 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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How this job compares
Set against the 58,053 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$46.52–62.54/hr
- California median$54–75/hr1,545 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr24,426 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $54.53/hr, is 14% below the California median midpoint ($64/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,381 open Registered Nurse jobs in California and 58,053 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kaiser Permanente281 open
- Health Advocates Network206 open
- Sutter Health177 open
- Experience
- Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (28,419 postings).
- Education
- 4,384 of the 58,053 open Registered Nurse jobs (8%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 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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