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.