Behavioral Health Observation RN | EmPATH
Saint Cloud, MNFull-time$44.57–74.37/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Behavioral Health Observation RN provides mental health interventions to patients with acute mental health urgencies in an observation setting. The role collaborates with the EmPATH team and community partners to develop community treatment plans. EmPATH is a healing environment separate from the emergency department, staffed by a multidisciplinary psychiatric team. The position is full-time, onsite at St. Cloud Hospital, with 12-hour night shifts and rotating weekends and holidays.
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Full job description
Job Shift: Night
Assignment Category: Full-time regular
Hours per Pay Period: 60
Work From Home 100%: No
Pay Ranges: 44.57 - 74.37
Job Identification: 232506
Job Category: Nursing
Job Schedule: Full time
On-site
Find your purpose working in a dynamic, team oriented, fast paced environment providing mental health interventions to patients with acute mental health urgencies in an Observation setting! The Behavioral Health Observation RN will also appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with our EmPATH team and various community partners involved in developing Community Treatment plans.
EmPATH is a dedicated healing environment separate from the emergency department, staffed with a multidisciplinary psychiatric team providing Emergency, Psychiatric, Assessment, Treatment, and Healing to those initially presenting to emergency rooms with mental health urgencies.
Schedule
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Full-time | 60 hours every two weeks | Onsite- St. Cloud Hospital
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12-hour night shift | 7 p.m. - 7:30 a.m. | Every third weekend (Fri-Sun)| Holiday rotation
Pay and Benefits
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Pay based on experience and degree
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Associate/Diploma in nursing starting at $44.57 per hour
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Bachelor’s in nursing starting at $46.11 per hour
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Master’s in nursing starting at $47.65 per hour
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Pay range: $44.57 - $74.37 per hour
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Earn extra pay for working evening, night, and weekend shifts.
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benefits (https://jobs.centracare.com/us/en/benefits) : medical, dental, PTO, retirement, employee discounts and more!
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$3,500 hiring bonus potential!
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$5,000 relocation assistance bonus for those who qualify!
Qualifications
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Graduate from a nursing program required; Bachelors or Masters in Nursing preferred.
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A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Nursing must be obtained within three years of hire.
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Current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Minnesota required.
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4 years minimum experience as a psychiatric or chemical dependency registered nurse preferred.
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Knowledge of at least the following areas: abuse issues, chemical dependency, adult/adolescent/child clinical assessments.
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Knowledge of crisis theory and intervention, psychiatric diagnosis, psychotropic medications, including use and side effects and knowledge of community resources and intervention.
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American Nurses Association (ANA) Psychiatric – Mental Health Certification preferred.
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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NCI) initial and on-going training required and provided.
To be eligible for the hiring and relocation bonus you must be an external candidate who is hired into an eligible full or part time benefited position. Previous employees qualify if they have not worked for CentraCare for at least 9 months at the date of hire. To be eligible for the relocation bonus, you must currently reside more than 50 miles away from St. Cloud Hospital and relocate to within 30 miles of it. CentraCare hiring incentives to include but not limited to, hiring and relocation bonuses may be discontinued at any time.
CentraCare has made a commitment to diversity in its workforce. All individuals including, but not limited to, individuals with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. CentraCare is an EEO/AA employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 59,438 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$44.57–74.37/hr
- Minnesota median$40–58/hr716 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr25,237 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $59.47/hr, is 26% above the Minnesota median midpoint ($47/hr) — in the top quarter of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,058 open Registered Nurse jobs in Minnesota and 59,438 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
- Aya Healthcare, Inc.188 open
- Mayo Clinic115 open
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- 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 (29,208 postings).
- Education
- 4,229 of the 59,438 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 7, 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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