Job Description
Job Description
Schedule : Days Vary, every other weekend & holidays required
3 shifts per week
Float Population
Key Functions
Patient care
- Assessment and care planning
- Sets appropriate goals; including the physical, psychological, social, and continuing care needs of each patient; evaluates nursing actions to meet those goals;
and makes recommendations for any changes.
- Demonstrates effective bio-psycho-social assessment skills
- Develops comprehensive nursing care plans based on nursing diagnosis and standards of care, clearly written with expected outcomes
- Effectively utilizes nursing process in directing and providing patient care
- Modifies plan of care based on ongoing patient assessment
- Insures effective health teaching for patients and families
- Insures comprehensive discharge planning relative to nursing care needs
- Effective member of interdisciplinary team
- Observes, documents and communicates patient responses and effectiveness of nursing intervention and medication; documents in patient’s medical record according to established policy and procedure
- Insures safety by making patient and safety rounds according to policy, regularly assessing physical environments, and follow-up for identified concerns
- Seeks constructive feedback from co-workers regarding performance, interpersonal relations, nursing skills and abilities;
recognizes limitations through self-appraisal and peer review. Effectively utilizes management and clinical supervision
- Supports and encourages constructive working relationship with program and other disciplines / departments while valuing opposing ideas
- Responds to patients, staff and visitors in professional manner
- Demonstrates good judgment and behavior appropriate to the hospital, including such characteristics as grooming and personal appearance, speech, and personal hygiene
- Participates in performance improvement activities
- Relieves charge nurse in his / her absence as assigned
- Provision of nursing interventions
- Demonstrates knowledge of medication action, mode of administration, side effects and contraindications by successfully completing annual medication examination.
- Provides safe and timely administration of medication and prescribed treatments, insuring prompt reporting of all errors
- Effectively engages patients in full participation of treatment program
Hospital operations
- Seeks opportunities to participate in hospital committees, performance improvement initiatives, and activities
- Participates in orientation and training of students and new staff
Education Required : BSN
License / Certification : Current license to practice as RN in state of Texas
Experience : Two years experience in psychiatric nursing
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