About This Role
This position involves providing nursing care in a psychiatric intensive care unit during overnight shifts. You'll work 12-hour nights as a full-time staff member, coordinating patient care, developing treatment plans, and advocating for patients and their families. Your responsibilities include supervising care delivery, applying critical thinking to patient assessments, arranging discharge planning, and connecting patients with necessary community resources. You'll monitor patient progress, evaluate care outcomes, and work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team. This role suits registered nurses with experience in psychiatric or critical care settings who are comfortable working independently on nights and can manage complex patient situations with sound clinical judgment.
$38–$60/hr
Hospital ICU / Hospital
Nights · Days
RN license
1 year of current experience
Requirements
Active RN license required.
1–2+ years of ICU/critical care experience.
BLS and ACLS required. CCRN preferred.
Ability to stand for long shifts, lift up to 50 lbs, and assist with patient transfers.
Frequently asked questions
What ICU experience do I need?
Most ICU roles require 1–2 years of recent critical-care experience. Travel ICU contracts typically expect 2+ years. New grads can apply to ICU residency programs offered by many hospitals.
Which certifications are required?
BLS and ACLS are required. CCRN (Critical Care Registered Nurse) is preferred and often comes with a pay differential.
What does the schedule look like?
Most ICU positions run three 12-hour shifts per week — either days (7a–7p) or nights (7p–7a) — with weekend and holiday rotations.
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La Cañada Flintridge is a working healthcare town: Cedars-Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, UCSF Health, Stanford, and Sutter Health drive consistent demand year-round. Most nursing openings around La Cañada Flintridge, California fall into three buckets — staff hospital roles, per diem and PRN shifts, and travel/agency assignments tied to ICU, ER, labor & delivery, and travel nurse contracts.
Whether you want a steady staff schedule in La Cañada Flintridge or per diem flexibility across California, the mix of Cedars-Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, UCSF Health, Stanford, and Sutter Health keeps demand steady. RNs with active California licensure and 1+ year of acute-care experience tend to clear the highest pay around La Cañada Flintridge, California.
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** Internal Workers – Please log into your Workday account to apply ** Huntington Hospital Employee Login Expectations: Responsible for coordination of care to meet identified needs of the patient/family.
Supervises the management of patient care utilizing critical thinking and nursing process, discharge planning, resource identification, linking and scheduling patients with required services, monitoring care delivery, advocating for the patient, care planning and evaluating outcomes.
Coordinates patient care across the health care continuum, and assists other team members with meeting individual patient needs.
This position may require flexibility of hours.
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree (BSN) required.
Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) will be considered if enrolled in a BSN program with degree completion within 2 years of date of hire or date of transfer to an RN position.
Diploma or transcripts on highest degree earned required.
EXPERIENCE/TRAINING: Minimum 1 year of current experience in acute care area of expertise/equivalent service area, 2 years preferred.
Basic computer skills/experience with computerized documentation systems required.
LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS: Required: Current unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license issued by California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) Current Basic Life Support Provider (BLS) issued by American Heart Association Preferred: Current unrestricted Registered Nurse-Board Certified (RN-BC) SKILLS: -Ensures all patients' rights are intact.
Reports all violations and all patient complaints to Psychiatric Unit Shift Supervisor -Provides therapeutic structure and assist staff therapist in group settings. -Provides patient education. -Continually updates knowledge base in terms of the special needs of the various patient populations served. -Assists in planning and providing care to meet the developmental needs of the patient populations. -Provides supervision to every team member on the unit/shift (PCA, LVN, LPT, Sitter) -Enforces all safety policies and procedures carried out by team members. -Follows all applicable guidelines and policies during events such as Code Gray, Seclusion and Restraints, and other Codes. -Cross trained and competent to work on any DMC inpatient unit.
Job Title: Registered Nurse 12HR_Psychiatric - ICU Department: Psychiatric - ICU Shift Duration: 12 Primary
Shift: Nights Time Type: Full time Location: 100 W California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91105 Pay Range: The estimated base rate for this position is $47.88 - $74.20.
Additional individual compensation may be available for this role through differentials, extra shift incentives, bonuses, etc.
Base pay is only a portion of the total rewards package, and a comprehensive benefits program is available for qualifying positions.
At Huntington Health, we offer a highly competitive pay structure that is more rewarding than organizations that offer straight pay.
Our compensation reflects the following premium structure for every
shift: - Base rate paid for the first 8 hours of work in a day - 1.5x overtime pay for hours 8–12 worked in a workday. - 2x double-time pay for any hours beyond 12 in a workday This ensures that employees are fairly compensated for the full length of their shift, with enhanced pay as their workday progresses.
The estimated blended hourly rate, accounting for these premiums on a 12-hour shift, ranges from $55.86 to $86.57.
When you join the Huntington Health team, you are aligning yourself with an organization whose values drive our philosophy of compassionate community care.
Over the past 129 years, we’ve grown from a small 16-bed hospital to a nationally recognized healthcare leader with 619 beds.
As part of our commitment to providing equitable, high-quality care to all members of our community, we embrace differences and work hard to create a place of belonging for our patients and our employees.
When you join the Huntington family, you’ll be empowered to enact change that continuously improves our ability to deliver world-class care, with kindness and dignity, to all who need it.