Registered Nurse (RN) Nights | $5k Sign On Bonus!

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Registered Nurse (RN)
• •Night Shift
• •Full-Time
• •Clinical oversight for day-to-day operations of the hospital
• •Work with patients in a therapeutic setting
• •Follow and carry out physician orders
• •Complete assessments
• •Initiate and update treatment plans
• •Direct patient care
• •Group and individual therapy/education
• •Referral for intake and continuum of care
• •Application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions
• •Meeting patient goals
• •Clinical documentation
• •IV administration
• •Medication administration
• •Educating family members
• •Teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers
• •Ongoing assessments of patient needs
• •Health status conditions
• •Patient response to interventions
• •Provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• •Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions
• •Documenting progress
• •Evaluates the care for each patient on admission
• •Evaluates the care for each patient on an ongoing basis
• •In accordance with accepted nursing practice
• •Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• •Makes all patient care assignments
• •Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• •Reviews staffing schedules
• •Meets patient care need
• •Make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• •Administer medications
• •IV administration
• •Venipuncture techniques
• •As authorized by state laws
• •Carry out physician orders
• •Patient/Family education regarding medication administration
• •Patient disorder needs
• •Benefits
• •Side effects
• •Disease prevention
• •Basic living skills
• •Complete comprehensive nursing assessments
• •Treatment
• •Tests
• •Complete psychiatric metric measures
• •Complete documentation in medical charts
• •Organized
• •Clear
• •Complete
• •Current
• •Legible
• •Compliance with completion
• •Filing
• •Retrieval of medical records
• •Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• •Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision
• •Supervises personnel performance
• •Nursing care for department
• •Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights
• •Anonymity
• •Confidentiality of all patient records past and present
• •Written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity
• •Address
• •Situation
• •Observes and evaluates patients' signs
• •Symptoms
• •Therapy progress
• •Identifies and interprets patient findings
• •Changes requiring attention
• •Notification of other professional staff
• •Maintains a clean safe work environment
• •Accepts orders from licensed physician
• •MD's
• •Maintains accurate inventory of medication
• •Stores them in a secure area
• •Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients
• •Staff
• •Visitors
• •Family members
• •In compliance with federal and state laws
• •Accreditation
• •Policies and procedures
• •Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights
• •Abuse and neglect
• •Seclusion and restraint
• •Infection control
• •Professional ethics
• •Cultural competency
• •Advance directives
• •As mandated by federal and state laws
• •Accreditation
• •Policies and procedures
• •Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients
• •Families
• •Physicians
• •Referral sources
• •Visitors
• •Coworkers
• •Management
• •Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• •Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• •Ensures that patient information is completed timely
• •Filed timely
• •Accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• •Ensures all entries are dated
• •Timed
• •Authenticated
• •Includes verbal orders
• •Ensure results of consultative evaluations
• •Complications
• •Hospital acquired infections
• •Unfavorable reactions of the drugs
• •Are included in the medical chart
• •Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• •Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders
• •Nursing notes
• •Care plans
• •Reports of treatment
• •Medication records
• •Radiology reports
• •Lab reports
• •Vital signs
• •Any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• •Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license
• •Education
• •Prevents transmission of infections among patients
• •Personnel
• •Visitors
• •Identifies persons who may be exposed or infected
• •Provide treatment
• •Preventative measures
• •Logistics issues
• •Staff
• •Medical supplies
• •Re-supply
• •Continued operations
• •Capacity
• •Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation
• •In accordance with CDC guidelines
• •Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment
• •Gowns
• •Gloves
• •Masks
• •Eye protection devices
• •Uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• •Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees
• •Utilization of alcohol based sanitizers
• •Measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant
• •Prevention of device associated bloodstream infections
• •Other device associated infections
• •Central venous catheters
• •Tube feedings
• •Indwelling catheters
• •Isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients
• •Care techniques
• •Burns
• •Other situations
• •Utilizing disinfectants
• •Antiseptics
• •Germicides
• •Used in accordance with manufacturers instruction
• •Appropriate use of medical equipment
• •Adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions
• •Educates patients
• •Visitors
• •Caregivers
• •Staff about infections
• •Communicable diseases
• •Methods to reduce transmission
• •Complies with reportable disease requirements
• •Demonstrates the development discharge plans
• •Reassessment of plans
• •Made before discharge
• •Arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care
• •Avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• •Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information
• •To appropriate facilities
• •Agencies
• •Outpatient services
• •As needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• •Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• •Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• •Meets all standards regarding continuing education
• •Basic qualifications
• •Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice
• •Knowledge of the persons served
• •Conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• •Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients
• •Prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• •Able to problem solve and make decisions
• •Especially during crisis situations
• •Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• •Techniques to identify patient behaviors
• •Events
• •Environmental factors
• •That may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
• •The use of nonphysical interventions skills
• •The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion
• •How to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
• •Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
• •Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded
• •Respiratory
• •Circulatory
• •Skin integrity
• •Vital signs
• •Any special requirements specified by the hospital policy
• •Associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
• •The use of first aid techniques
• •Certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• •Including required periodic recertification
• •Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• •Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies
• •Procedures regarding abuse
• •Neglect
• •Patient care
• •Patient safety
• •Reporting incidents
• •Investigating incidents
• •Compliance in regulations with federal and state laws
• •Accreditation
• •Policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint
• •Patient rights
• •Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• •Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues
• •Applicable in federal and state laws
• •Accreditation
• •Policies and procedures
• •Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions
• •The methods of controlling communicable diseases
• •Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics
• •Compliance
• •Cultural competency
• •Advance directives
• •Legal aspects
• •Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration
• •Fluid/electrolyte balance
• •Blood components
• •Venipuncture techniques
• •Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis
• •Psychotropic medication
• •Side effects of medications
• •Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans
• •Based on an inventory of needs
• •Strengths
• •Goals
• •Legal aspects of clinical practice
• •Professional standards
• •Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• •Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• •Knowledgeable of the persons served
• •Their rights
• •Advocate for the needs of the persons served
• •One (1) year of clinical nursing experience
• •Preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health
• •Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
• •With a Registered Nursing Degree
• •Current State Registered Nursing License
• •Current CPR Certification
• •Current CPI Certification
• •Position may require unscheduled overtime
• •Week-end work
• •Must be willing and able to work flexible hours
• •Travel required
• •Microsoft Excel
• •Word
• •Outlook
• •Ability to learn HRIS
• •Or scheduling systems
• •Standard Office Equipment
• •Computer
• •Job will require frequent lifting of objects up to 40 pounds
• •Standing
• •Walking
• •Sitting
• •Bending
• •Reaching
• •Kneeling
• •Pushing
• •Pulling
• •Working safely
• •Follow safety rules
• •Report unsafe working conditions
• •Behaviors
• •Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices
• •Able to gather and analyze data
• •Reach appropriate conclusion
• •Solves problems in a timely manner
• •Possesses good interpersonal skills while dealing with emotional or difficult situations
• •Responds promptly to customer's needs
• •Accepts responsibility for own decisions
• •Actions
• •Results
• •Able to maintain dependable behavior in times of crisis or complexity
• •Is consistently at work
• •And on time
• •Ensures work responsibilities are covered
• •Arrives at meetings on time
• •Returns from lunch and breaks appropriately
• •Speaks and writes clearly
• •Persuasively