Clinical Nurse III - Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Services

About the role

Under supervision, to apply the theoretical concepts of the nursing profession while providing routine direct patient care within the parameters of established nursing policies and procedures in controlled patient care situations required by the assigned clinical setting.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments, develop personalized treatment plans, and manage medication while ensuring patient safety and comfort.
• Collaborate with psychiatrists and other behavioral health professionals to design optimal care, educate patients and families, and advocate for their needs.
• Perform new procedures and/or function in unfamiliar situations, coordinate activities needed to implement the plan of care, and coordinate patient and family teaching.
• Coordinate discharge plans with appropriate support personnel, comply with external and internal regulations pertaining to nursing practice, recognize legal and ethical duties and responsibilities of registered nurses, and participate in conducting research activities.
• Assist in teaching students and staff, assume role of primary nurse with accountability to specific assigned patients, and may be assigned as a Disaster Service Worker (DSW).

Requirements

• An active California Registered Nurse License without restrictions.
• Three (3) years of full-time Registered Nurse (RN) experience, of which one (1) year must have been within the last three (3) years, in an accredited acute care hospital setting, Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital, Partial Hospitalization Program, or Custody Health.
• One (1) year of full-time RN experience, within the last three (3) years, in Child / Adolescent Behavioral Psychiatric Services, or Adult Psychiatric Services, a Partial Hospitalization Program - Psychiatric (PHP), Emergency Department, Pediatrics, or Custody Health Services.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is preferred.
• Possession of a nationally recognized certification in a specialty area is preferred.

Skills

• Knowledge of California Nurse Practice Act;
• Knowledge of American Nursing Association Code of Ethics;
• Knowledge of Nursing Professional Practice Model;
• Knowledge of Federal and State healthcare laws and regulations appropriate to the operation of California hospitals;
• Knowledge of current nursing and related medical theory necessary to administer nursing care within assigned clinical setting;
• Knowledge of principles, practices, and methods of acute and primary care clinical nursing, including community aspects and continuity of patient care;
• Knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of common medical problems as related to a clinical specialty area;
• Knowledge of clinical systems, supplies, and equipment;
• Knowledge of safety and Infection Control practices;
• Knowledge of sciences basic to nursing (anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, microbiology);
• Knowledge of English usage, style, grammar, punctuation, and spelling;
• Knowledge of common computer systems and charting applications.

Benefits

• The Eligible List created from this recruitment will be used for current and future openings within this competency area (Child / Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Services).

Pay

• Not specified.

Schedule

• Not specified.