Registered Nurse (RN) - PHP/IOP

New employee retention bonus of $2,500 available (new employee defined as someone who has not been employed with Rogers for more than six months).

Schedule

• Full time - 40 hours/week
• Monday - Friday
• No weekends, holidays, or on-call required

Responsibilities

• Perform professional nursing activities in the care of patients to help them achieve or regain, and maintain, maximum physical, emotional, or social functions.
• Collect, record, and analyze pertinent data for admission assessment within prescribed timeframe, including:
  • Patient strengths and limitations relevant to health goals
  • Cultural, spiritual, and ethnic factors impacting treatment
  • Discharge needs
  • Medical/physical status
  • History of medication compliance, reactions, and current schedule
  • Age-specific data regarding individual needs
• Involve patient’s support systems (family, friends) in assessment and documentation:
  • Observe and document patient interactions with family and friends as pertinent to treatment
  • Obtain assessment data from support systems when appropriate
• Initiate and update treatment plan and documentation as required:
  • Participate in planning and modifying the patient’s plan of care
  • Evaluate data obtained by others by reviewing treatment plans and multi-disciplinary assessments
  • Participate in care conferences (staffings) and represent the nursing care component of the treatment plan
  • Develop and interpret plan of care with the patient/family, updating as indicated
  • Write clear, concise, and obtainable treatment goals on the treatment plan for each problem
  • Review the treatment plan as goals are achieved, changed, or updated
• On an ongoing basis, identify, interpret, and document information collected in nursing interviews, observations, physical assessments, and diagnostic data, and confer with other healthcare professionals as appropriate:
  • Review current lab data and follow up with doctors
  • Evaluate potential for falls and initiate fall precautions as indicated
  • Identify potential for self-abuse, suicidality, and/or assaultive behavior
  • Develop age-appropriate interventions for the patient’s plan of care
  • Assess changes in patient status and document interventions accordingly
• Implement patient care, including safe and correct medication administration:
  • Ensure accuracy in medication administration: right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, and right route
  • Maintain current knowledge of medication’s purpose and effects, documenting responses to medication
  • Accurately transcribe and implement physician medication orders
  • Monitor expected and unexpected medication effects, including adverse drug reactions and interactions
  • Conduct and document patient education about medications
  • Maintain current knowledge about new pharmacologic products
• Identify problems with unit systems, communication patterns, and resources impacting patient care, and suggest solutions to the Clinical Services manager.
• Identify unit educational equipment and supply needs.
• Serve on one unit-based committee or participate in unit-based projects on an ongoing basis.
• Participate in projects, tasks, and continuing education to improve professional skills and unit/department systems:
  • Develop goals and objectives for professional growth and discuss with Clinical Services manager
  • Take initiative to develop professional skills through continuing education
  • Discuss progress toward work improvement goals regularly with Clinical Services manager
  • Seek out projects and/or extra tasks based on unit or shift needs

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) preferred
• Registered nurse licensed by State Board of Nursing in the state of employment; license must be in good standing
• American Health Association Healthcare Provider CPR certification required within thirty (30) days of hire; bi-annual re-certification required
• Formal training in management of the aggressive patient required within sixty (60) days of hire; annual re-certification required
• Previous psychiatric experience with children, adolescents, and adults preferred
• May be required to hold a qualified medical professional (QMP) designation at the Hospital’s discretion; competency evaluated and renewed annually
• For Child/Adolescent Day Treatment programs licensed under HFS40: training in psychiatric nursing (including work with children with mental health disorders) or one (1) year of experience in a clinical setting with these children

Pay

Compensation for this role is between $29.76 - $47.78 per hour. Placement in the range varies based on years of experience and education.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your family
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Employee share program
• Life/disability insurance
• Flex spending accounts
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health and wellness program
• Employee assistance program (EAP)