PSYCHIATRIC NURSE
Company: Rogers Behavioral Health
Location: Arlington
Posted on: October 26, 2024
Job Description:
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
- Complete initial assessments and documents as required.
- Collect, record, and analyze pertinent data for admission
assessment.
- Involve patient's support systems in assessment and
documentation.
- Act as an advocate for patients by explaining rights and
providing necessary consents.
- Initiate and update treatment plan and documentation as
required.
- On an ongoing basis, identify, interpret, and document
information collected in nursing interview, observation, physical
assessment and diagnostic data, and confer with other healthcare
professionals.
- Implement patient care, including safe and correct medication
administration.
- Identify potential patient care problems, abrupt changes, or
impending instability in the patient's condition, and intervene
appropriately.
- Identify health education needs of the patient/family that will
be addressed before discharge.
- Assist in the development and implementation of unit standards
of care.
- Carry out leadership function in patient care, staff
operations, and department organization.
- Participate in projects, tasks, and continuing education
opportunities to improve professional skills and unit/department
systems.
- Promote department goals and the mission of the hospital.
- Participate in Hospital committees, performance improvement
team meetings and team projects, as directed.
- Participate in the Performance Improvement program.
- Conduct self in a professional manner, demonstrate
understanding of Joint Commission and other regulatory agency
compliance regulations. Additional Job Description:
Education/Training Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) preferred. Registered nurse
licensed by State Board of Nursing in the state of employment.
- American Health Association Healthcare Provider CPR
certification or is required within thirty (30) days of
date-of-hire. Bi-annual re-certification is required.
- Formal training in management of the aggressive patient is
required within sixty (60) days of date-of-hire.
- Previous psychiatric experience with children, adolescents and
adults is preferred.
- At the Hospital's discretion, may be required to hold a
qualified medical professional (QMP) designation.
- Employees at the Child/Adolescent Day Treatment programs
licensed under HFS -40 are required to have either training in
psychiatric nursing, including training in work with children with
mental health disorders, or one (1) year of experience working in a
clinical setting with these children.
Keywords: Rogers Behavioral Health, Racine , PSYCHIATRIC NURSE, Healthcare , Arlington, Wisconsin
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