Resource Nurse/Rn

Northern Light Acadia Hospital

Department: Nursing Administration

Position is located: Acadia

Work Type: Full Time

Hours Per Week: 36.00

Work Schedule: 7:00 PM to 7:30 AM

This position is eligible for a $10,000 sign on bonus for New Graduate Nurses or $15,000 for experience Nurses (minus applicable tax, with work commitment)

Summary:

The Psychiatric Resource Nurse works independently in collaboration with the House Administrator and unit staff to meet the clinical needs of all inpatient hospital units. The Psychiatric Resource Nurse is able to respond quickly to patient, family and unit needs. They are able to engage in cost effective, clinically sound decision making while acting as a leader and mentor to other staff. The Psychiatric Resource Nurse is adept at negotiating conflict, collaborating with others and applying self-reflection to their practice. This nurse provides daily clinical leadership and provides education to nursing staff. The Psychiatric Resource Nurse orients to and performs the role of House Administrator when needed.

Responsibilities :

• Is a role model for efficient and patient centered approaches to care
• Takes a mindful and thoughtful approach to all interactions while maintaining appropriate, professional boundaries
• Attitude reflects an emphasis on internal and external customer service
• Maintains an active, mindful and energetic presence on the unit and is proactive with ensuring tasks are completed, assists others whenever possible
• Uses self-reflection to continually improve practice with emphasis on maintaining empathy, compassion, collaboration and patient dignity
• Facilitates educational and community groups and encourages patient participation in offered activities
• Makes frequent rounds on patient units to assess milieu, staffing needs and to maintain communication with unit staff and supervisors
• Responsible for managing patient and staff safety during psychiatric and medical emergencies, continually assesses for imminent risk and ensures safe use of physical interventions
• Anticipates unit needs and independently collaborates to provide support. Able to efficiently prioritize among competing needs
• Directs all aspects of milieu management through active participation and delegation
• Provides supportive, real time feedback to nurses and techs to ensure a safe and therapeutic environment
• Communicates effectively with providers, staff and hospital and unit leadership using techniques such as SBAR
• Actively involved as a leader with unit based and hospital wide quality improvement initiatives such as infection prevention and restraint reduction
• Documentation is thorough, accurate and adheres to hospital policy
• Administers medications in accordance with hospital policy using sound clinical judgement. Carries out LIP orders in same fashion, seeks clarification when needed.
• Provides formal and informal education on hospital wide and unit based performance improvement initiatives.
• Effectively utilizes the electronic medical record to formulate and document a plan of care taking into consideration biopsychosocial needs
• Develops individualized plans of care in collaboration with the patient and significant others that takes into consideration patient's chronological age and stage of development
• Collaborates with Nurse Manager, Shift Supervisor or House Administrator to ensure optimum staffing for current and subsequent shifts
• Anticipates unit needs and independently provides support. Able to efficiently prioritize among competing needs. This can include nursing, tech, housekeeping and safety tasks when needed
• Provides a positive, educational experience to all students, provides individual instruction as needed
• Acts as a preceptor and mentor to department and unit staff
• Proactively identifies and responds to reported safety concerns, including investigating and reporting allegations of abuse or neglect
• Acts as Charge nurse when needed

Other Information:

Competencies and Skills

• Basic Life Support
• Behaves with Integrity and Builds Trust: Acts consistently in line with the core values, commitments and rules of conduct. Leads by example and tells the truth. Does what they say they will, when and how they say they will, or communicates an alternate plan.
• Blood Pressure Measurement
• Catheterization
• Electronic medical record software.
• Cultivates Respect: Treats others fairly, embraces and values differences, and contributes to a culture of diversity, inclusion, empowerment and cooperation.
• Demonstrates Adaptability: Learns quickly when facing a new problem or unfamiliar task; is flexible in their approach with changing priorities and ambiguity. Manages change effectively and does not give up during adversity. Capable of changing one's behavioral style and/or views in order to attain a goal. Absorbs new information readily and puts it into practice effectively.
• Develops Self and Others:Takes responsibility for engaging in professional self-development activities and programs. Strives to gain insight into their own values, strengths and weaknesses, interests and ambitions and takes action in order to enhance competencies and skills when possible. As a leader, encourages and guides employees towards growth opportunities to enhance performance and help them reach goals. Reviews and analyzes employees' strengths and weaknesses to distinguish their talents and development needs, and to ensure they are enhanced appropriately.
• Effectively Communicates: Listens, speaks and writes appropriately, using clear language. Communication methods are fitting to the message(s), audience, and situation and follow-ups are regular and timely. Shows that important (non-) verbal information is absorbed and understood and asks further questions to clarify when necessary. Expresses ideas and views clearly to others and has ability to adjust use of language to the audiences' level.
• Exercises Sound Judgment & Decision Making: Understands and processes complex information, which allows for appropriate and accountable conclusions. Does not react too quickly or slowly. Balances facts, goals, and potential approaches taking the appropriate criteria into account. Makes active decisions and commits oneself by communicating confidently and respectfully.
• Fax
• Fosters Accountability: Creates and participates in a work environment where people hold themselves and others accountable for processes, results and behaviors. Takes appropriate ownership not only of successes but also mistakes and works to correct them in a timely manner. Demonstrates understanding that we all work as a team and the quality and timeliness of work impacts everyone involved.
• Experience supporting hardware including computers, laptops, network devices and telephones.
• Injection Administartion
• Experience browsing, researching and finding information on the internet.
• Types at 60+ words per minute. (only to be used as a condition of employment)
• Ability to understand the language used to precisely describe the human body including its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it.
• Spreadsheet application with the ability to use calculations, formulas, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming.
• Word processing, spreadsheets, data entry, database experience and other computer related skills.
• Email application with the ability to manage email as well as calendars, managing tasks and contacts, note taking, journaling, and web browsing.
• Presentation software with the ability to create presentations with the ability to incorporate animation, audio, video, time delays, as well as designing themes and variants with animations and effects.
• MS Teams
• Word process application with the ability to create and edit documents, format, use tables, apply footnoting, create table of contents and mail merge techniques.
• Multi-line Phone
• Obtain Vital Signs
• Performing an ECG
• Photocopier
• Practices Compassion: Exhibits genuine care for people and is available and ready to help; displays a deep awareness of and strong willingness to relieve the suffering of others.
• Promotes Health and Safety: Promotes a healthy and safe environment for patients, employees and visitors. Advocates and models healthy physical and mental health behaviors even in challenging circumstances. Sets high quality standards and strives for continuous improvement and quality assurance by reporting and encouraging others to report near misses and safety issues.
• Provides Patient-Centered Care: Demonstrates understanding of patient care quality and service as organizational priority. Proactively supports change to improve patient experience and results. Exhibits the ability and willingness to find out what the patient wants and needs and to act accordingly, taking the organizational and outside resources into account. Cooperates, collaborates, communicates, and integrates care within and between teams to ensure that care is continuous and reliable.
• Resolves Conflict: Promptly acts to find alternatives/solutions when team members disagree. Addresses issues in a direct, honest, and appropriate manner. Handles conflicting interests diplomatically and helps to solve them. Transforms difficult situations into teachable moments using respect and accountability .
• Scanner
• Seeks Process Improvement & Applies System Thinking: Possesses and gains insight into situations, problems and processes. Understands the interconnection between organizational elements. Deconstructs problems and systematically investigates the various components. Considers the impact of actions on the entire process/system. Detects problems and opportunities, recognizes important information, and links various data to trace potential causes and relevant details.
• Serves Others: Strives to understand, meet and exceed the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers which may include the people and communities in our service areas. Develops and maintains relationships, alliances and coalitions within and outside the organization and leverages them in order to obtain information, support, and promote cooperation and collaboration.
• Specimen Collection
• Sterile Gloving Technique
• Troubleshooting
• Utilizes Resources Effectively: Understands how to get the most out of available resources and uses cost-benefit thinking in decision-making and in setting priorities. Monitors and analyzes resource usage to identify and eliminate areas of waste and maximize resources. As a leader, defines targets and provides appropriate means; oversees progress and makes adjustments when necessary. Appropriately delegates work, sets clear direction and manages workflow and time.
• Wound Care
• Zoom

Credentials

• Required Registered Nurse

Education

• Required Associate's Degree

Required Experience

• 2 year/years of Clinical Experience
• 2 year/years of Relevant Work Experience

Working Conditions

• Potential exposure to abusive and/or aggressive people.
• Potential exposure to diseases or infections.
• Potential exposure to hazardous materials.
• Lifting, moving and loading 20 to 30 pounds.
• Prolonged periods of standing.
• Prolonged periods of walking.
• Lifting, moving and loading 30 to 50 pounds.
• Potential exposure to noise levels being uncomfortable.
• Work beyond the regularly scheduled hours.
• Extend body and limbs to reach items.
Prolonged periods of kneeling.

Northern Light Acadia Hospital is a broad behavioral health delivery system centrally managed from its location in Bangor, Maine. Acadia Hospital is a leader in providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, tele-psychiatry, consultations to regional emergency departments, school-based and employer-based services, and integration into primary and specialty care practices. Northern Light Acadia Hospital offers innovative programming in the form of eating disorder services and a geriatric mood and memory clinic, which is involved in multiple clinical trials for promising Alzheimer's medications. The hospital is also the parent organization of Northern Light Acadia Healthcare which provides a substance use disorder treatment program, case management, and other outpatient mental health services serving patients from all corners of Maine. Acadia Hospital embraces service excellence and high quality care as evidenced by its commitment to achieve Center of Excellence status in the delivery of behavioral health services.
Northern Light Acadia Hospital is a member of Northern Light Health, an integrated statewide health delivery system that is raising the bar with no-nonsense solutions that are leading the way to a healthier future for our state. Northern Light Health offers a broad range of providers and services, including ten hospitals, primary care and specialty physician practices, long-term care, home health and hospice agencies, and emergency ground and air transport.
Bangor, Maine is a vibrant small city with easy access to Maine's spectacular coast, mountains, and lakes. Schools rank among New England's best with the flagship campus of the University of Maine located in the neighboring town of Orono. Bangor serves as the regional hub for medicine, the arts, and commerce. Bangor International Airport offers direct and one-stop service to many major destinations.