Care Career is seeking a travel nurse RN Behavioral Health for a travel nursing job in Des Moines, Iowa.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Behavioral Health
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 10/11/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
Psych/BH RN – Inpatient Psych
Shift: Nights, Monday–Friday, 11:00 PM–7:00 AM
Hours: 40 hrs/week
Weekend: Every other weekend
EMR: Epic
Contract: 13 weeks
Must Have:
- 15 months Psych/Behavioral Health experience
- Recent/current inpatient Psych experience highly preferred
- 24 months current Psych/BH experience on resume/work history required
- Epic experience
- Experience with adolescents, adults & geriatrics
- Active Iowa RN license or Compact/Multistate license
- AHA/ARC BLS
- Driver’s license
- First-time travelers accepted with 12 months Psych/BH experience
Preferred:
- Active MOAB, MAB, CPI, or SAMA de-escalation certification
- Can be obtained during onboarding
- Professional reference from charge/supervisor/manager/director/CNO/COO within the last 24 months
Unit Details:
- 10-bed unit
- Ratios up to 1:3–5
- Acute psychiatric patients
- Major mental health illnesses
- Chronic behaviors including violence, aggression, mania & self-harm
- Restraint competency required
- Navy blue solid scrubs
- Home unit is Geri
Important:
- No locals — must live 50+ miles from facility based on driver’s license
- Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s
- Quick interview process — candidate should expect a phone call/text from a 405 area code.
About Care Career
Care Career brings together a portfolio of leading healthcare staffing organizations, each delivering specialized talent solutions across the industry. Wherever you want to go, We Make It Happen.
With travel nursing jobs across the country, you can discover the possibilities that create the lifestyle and financial position that you have dreamed of.
Care Career is a modern, transparent staffing firm creating the ultimate community of US.
Benefits
- Referral bonus
- Weekly pay
- Medical benefits
- Continuing Education
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits