Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN) - Behavioral Health
Department: CC Floats - Nurses & MHT
Location: Ogdensburg, NY
Shift Timing: Night 3x12-Hour (19:00 - 07:30)
Duration: 3+ months contract
Skills:
Must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to adolescent, adult, and older adult patients.
Must demonstrate knowledge of key principles of growth and development of the life span; demonstrates cultural competence relative to the patient and/or resident’s status.
Must be able to interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient and/or resident’s needs relative to his/her age, culture, ethnicity, disability sexual orientation/gender identity (if applicable) by the organization’s policies and procedures.
Patient Orientation/Admission:
Nursing Admission Assessment accommodates age, culture, disability issues, sexual orientation/gender identity, and language.
Initial assessment for abuse, neglect, and domestic violence, pain assessment form, Completes Cardex (Patient Identification Card), vital signs X3 days, Suicide Assessment & Prevention, Status
Precautions Seclusion/Restraint/QA P&P, fall Assessment Form, CIWA/Narcotics Withdrawal Scale, BAL readings.
Charting/Confidentiality:
Daily Observation Record, SOAPIE, Care Notes (via computer), Patient/Family Education Record, maintains chart security, patient’s rights, and confidentiality; understands advanced directives policy.
Medications:
Transcription of Orders, Co-sign Orders, Read-back verbal telephone orders, Pour/Administer: Oral meds, Parenteral, Intradermal (PPD), Intramuscular, Subcutaneous, Inhalation, Insulin; PRN
Medications: Charts responses/Relief Scale; Ordering Medication; Variance Reporting, 24 Degree Chart Check.
Crisis management:
Knows different emergency codes & how to respond to them, Knows CPR & how to use AED, Provides care in the least restrictive manner, Understands/utilizes Solid Object philosophies, Understands & can properly implement HWC techniques.
Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing with adults and adolescents completes Incident Reporting as per organizational policy.
Care of Patients:
Maintains Therapeutic Milieu, able to set therapeutic limits, and demonstrates effective 1:1 interaction with patients.
Understands suicide prevention and assessment; status precautions; seclusion, restraint, and Quiet Area Protocols.
Provides care in the least restrictive manner. ECT; (ECT Work-up, Pre-Checklist, Post-Checklist).
Understands and maintains all different unit-specific protocols, rules, and procedures, as safe patient handling techniques.
Licenses and Certifications Required:
NY State Professional Registered Nurse license.
BLS-AHA.
NIHSS.