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Job Title: Registered Nurse

FTE: 0.90
Full Time
Shift: Days

Position Summary:

As a registered nurse in our inpatient adult services department, you will provide professional nursing care for assigned patients in a mental health/psychiatric environment. You will design nursing care plans and assist in the development of overall care plans for psychiatric patients, ensuring administration of appropriate overall care in a manner conducive to recovery.

Detailed Responsibilities:

• Patient Care: Interview, examine, and assess the health status of psychiatric patients with various cognitive, emotional, developmental, social, and behavioral disorders.
• Patient Care: Observe patient behavior, activities, and mental status; perform triage and crisis intervention.
• Patient Care: Write treatment plans; coordinate patient drug and procedure activities; administer medication and treatment; provide and coordinate nursing care of assigned patients; may facilitate group therapy and/or education sessions.
• Patient Care: Chart and report observed symptoms, reactions, treatments, and changes in the patients’ conditions; collect and document data and information; may perform computerized data entry.
• Patient Care: Perform nursing intakes, draw blood and other patient specimens; may perform or coordinate laboratory tests.
• Patient Care: Educate patients and families on treatment regimens, management of side effects, and compliance with the treatment plans; provide emotional support and acts as advocate for patients and families.
• Patient Care: Provide information and facilitate communication between physicians, medical students, staff, patients, families, and community; coordinate and consult with a milieu of service providers.
• Policy & Procedure: Follow established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous quality improvement objectives, and safety, environmental, and/or infection control standards.
• Development: Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings and workshops.
• Administration: Perform various administrative functions such as monitoring expenditures and preparing reports and correspondence; may participate in a variety of research projects to develop service plans; may propose changes to program policies and procedures.
• Preceptor: Participate in orientation, and having successfully completed preceptor training, assume precepting and evaluation responsibilities of new personnel.
• Tests and Procedures: Assist with special tests and procedures, ensure proper consent has been obtained.
• Emergency Measures: Assist with or institute emergency measures for sudden, adverse developments in patients.
• Medication: Administer medication, including IV medication, via the Seven Rights; document and communicate clinical findings.
• Environment: Maintain a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic environment for patients/families in accordance with Hospitals standards.
• Patient Safety 1: Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols.
• Patient Safety 2: Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes.
• Patient Safety 3: Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk.
• Patient Safety 4: Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner.
• Patient Safety 5: Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don’t understand or may

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