Care for Patients Needing Mental Health Care

You’ll find caring for psychiatric patients is challenging and rewarding

Meet Behavioral Health Nurse Nicole Urban-Miller, R.N.

She’ll never forget the night a colleague called her at 2 a.m. A family was upset that their loved one was admitted to the Behavioral Health Unit following a drug overdose, and they wanted to talk to someone in charge immediately. So, Urban-Miller called them and explained the benefits their loved one would receive as a patient. The family appreciated that she took the time to call in the middle of the night.

Urban-Miller loves working in Behavioral Health. “The patients we have are very special,” she says. “They have mental illnesses. It takes a very compassionate, intelligent and special person to work with psychiatric patients, and I feel that I was meant to be one of those fortunate people.”

Nicole Urban-Miller, R.N., is a recipient of the 2006 Friends of Nursing Psychiatric Award. She was nominated by her colleagues for this prestigious LVHHN award.

If you like each day to bring new challenges and want to work in a specialty that requires a high level of skills, behavioral health nursing may be for you. You’ll care for patients – either children or adults – battling mental illnesses like eating disorders, depression and autism. It’s a specialty where creative thinking and independent judgment are invaluable. You’ll work with a care team dedicated to helping people get well so they can care for themselves and their loved ones. You’ll have tremendous satisfaction knowing you’ve helped change someone’s life.

You may consider our Behavioral Health Specialty Float Pool, in which you could work with adult and pediatric behavioral health patients, depending on where you are needed during a particular day.

The Behavioral Health Science Center is located on the LVH-Muhlenberg campus. Staff care for up to 52 adults and 13 adolescent patients, as well as patients on an outpatient basis.

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