Registered Nurse (RN) - Behavioral Health - RNBH23-08549

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.