PSYCHIATRIC REGISTERED NURSE (RN), PART TIME

Overview

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Responsibilities

Summary

This position assists in providing psychiatry services within the facility and is a member of the multidisciplinary treatment team in providing information related to medication response, health status and observed behaviors.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepares the daily call out list; pulls charts for providers; ensures ordered lab work has been completed and filed and prepares charts with required paperwork.
• Completes required data entry into the client system for every patient that has contact with psychiatric clinician.
• Works closely with the clinician to ensure that the AIMS is completed as required for inmates who are prescribed antipsychotic medication.
• Ensures clinician orders are carried out; signs off orders, generates medication administration records, schedules lab tests, performs EKGs and schedules follow-up appointments.
• Files completed paperwork (evaluations, AIMS, medication consents, etc.) in the appropriate place.
• Ensures medications are discontinued by the psychiatric clinician when patients refused medications.
• Monitors labs and refers patients to appropriate providers.
• Participates and contributes to the development of individual treatment plans and attends the weekly multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Responsible for monthly reports via computer database to the client and employer.
• Ensures patients receive a 30-day supply of medications upon release from prison.
• Responds appropriately to negative findings from client and internal audits with timely CAPs.
• Completes intake and admission paperwork for actively suicidal patients.
• Conducts specific daily mental health screening on suicidal patients and communicates observations to providers.
• Monitors patients for extrapyramidal symptoms and gives emergency medications if ordered.
• Supervises medication compliance to oversee the general health and well-being of the patient and assures referral to the provider when the patient misses prescribed doses as required by policy
• Observes patients for signs of disorder or tension and reports such observations to a higher clinical authority. Strives to build collaborative relationships with the patients;

educates them about their treatment plan.

• Provides medication education including importance of compliance as needed.
• Responds to patients in crisis using active listening and de-escalation techniques to help patients regain emotional control and composure.
• Provides counseling in accordance with the team’s treatment plan.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Associate’s or bachelor's degree from an approved program; graduate of an accredited school of nursing required. Must have a current, unrestricted license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state the facility is located.
• Maintains current copy of license on file at the facility.
• Must have previous experience in the management and treatment of mental health patients.
• Two (2) years of direct work experience preferred.
• Must possess competence in the performance of the following services : crisis intervention, medical emergencies, physical assessment, medical and psychiatric nursing care.
• Must have the ability to work without direct, immediate supervision in performing nursing diagnosis, and be able provide appropriate follow through treatment.
• Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.
• Must have valid Arizona State Drivers License

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