Clinical Staff Nurse, Per Diem

About the role

Utilizing the nursing process, this position is responsible for providing acute and long-term nursing care needs for patients, families, and within the context of the hospital and program standards. Services are provided to children and adolescents.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct nursing and patient care services through application of the nursing process by assessing patient’s immediate and long-term needs.
• Initiates biopsychosocial assessment of patients’ acute nursing needs guided by admission procedure; documents such in required patient medical records format.
• Affirms completion of the nursing assessment form within 8 hours of admission for assigned patient.
• Communicates significant changes in assessment findings to the nurse in charge and other appropriate health care providers and summarizes the patient’s status in team meetings and reports.
• Provides direct patient care through the application of the nursing process by planning treatment interventions with the patient, family, and health care team.
• Develops and updates the patient care plan to reflect the patient status each shift: Formulates patient and family treatment goals. Identifies nursing interventions based on treatment goals. Identifies patient/family strengths. Identifies inpatient and aftercare needs of patient and family. Formulates measurable short and long-term goals with time.
• Provides direct patient care services through application of the nursing process by implementing nursing care based on individual patient needs.
• Serves as a patient advocate by supporting patient Bill of Rights and child mental health law.
• Participates in the ongoing development and implementation of the therapeutic milieu.
• Provides milieu management throughout each shift by assessing and responding to the acute needs of the patient group, including: Safety of the environment. Patient group interactions. Staff interactions.
• Provides leadership in acute or emergency situations according to Program standards; participates as a member of the Emergency Response Team.
• Maintains commitment to professional growth and competency through ongoing activities that promote professional role development.

Requirements

• Licensure as Registered Nurse in the State of Rhode Island by the Rhode Island Board of Nursing or licensure as a Registered Nurse in accordance with the Nurse Licensure Compact agreement of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
• Graduate of a school of nursing with current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Rhode Island.
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to patients with consideration of aging processes, human development stages and cultural patterns in each step of the care process.

Qualifications

• Two years of psychiatric nursing and/or pediatric nursing preferred; experience to be reviewed by Manager for determination of eligibility.

Skills

• Ability to communicate the status of the patient’s condition through the use of behaviorally oriented procedures.
• Assertively and respectfully questions any medical orders which conflict with ethical or patient care standards of nursing/medical back-up.
• Prioritizes interventions in rapidly changing patient situations as demonstrated by an organized response with an outcome that optimizes patient welfare in accordance with Program standards.
• Provides consistent leadership on unit when assigned as nurse in charge according to Program standards.
• Identifies and provides for teaching needs of patients, families, and other health care providers.
• Maintains current knowledge of the field as demonstrated by sharing knowledge and skills with members of the health care team during team meetings, report, or informal sessions.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

$35.70-$71.40

Schedule

Variable