RN Behavioral Health

About the role

The RN provides quality patient and family centered care as a member of the health care team in accordance with St. Charles Health System mission, philosophy, policies, and procedures. Applies standards for professional nursing practice and focuses clinical care to enhance the experience for patients, families, and all others.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and maintains therapeutic nurse-patient relationships, assists in facilitating a structured environment and therapeutic milieu, respects the privacy and protects the confidentiality of patients while maintaining the boundaries of the professional role.
• Captures and responds to crisis situations utilizing available unit, hospital and community resources.
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of current seclusion and restraint policies, laws and regulations.
• Participates with team members in facilitating patient’s and family’s learning throughout the continuum of care.
• Maintains and demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of nursing principles, practices, standards, and techniques and applies this knowledge in accordance with St. Charles Health System policies and procedures and within laws and regulations governing nursing practice in the State of Oregon.
• Assesses the patient’s condition and needs using critical thinking and clinical judgment: sets outcomes; implements appropriate nursing actions and collaborates with other disciplines to meet the patient’s/family’s physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and intellectual needs; and evaluates patient’s progress.
• Calculates dosages and administers medications accurately in accordance with St. Charles Health System policies and procedures for medication administration.
• Documents all patient care with proficiency in compliance with hospital policies, procedures and regulatory agencies.
• Demonstrates awareness of and supports St. Charles departmental and operating unit goals through participation in continuous quality improvement and departmental activities.
• Communicates (both written and orally) effectively and maintains professional relationships with caregivers, medical staff, patients, and guests.
• Identifies work-related problems with possible solutions and implements solution(s) within scope of practice, as appropriate.
• Supports the vision, mission and values of the organization in all respects.
• Supports Value Improvement Practice (VIP- Lean) principles of continuous improvement with energy and enthusiasm, functioning as a champion of change.
• Provides a therapeutic presence in service to others by purposefully responding to the needs of patients in a caring way, including introducing oneself and explaining role in patient’s care, asking the patient his or her preferred name, sitting with the patient to determine his or her care goals, active listening, communicating effectively and appropriately through touch, eye contact, etc.
• Provides and maintains a safe environment for caregivers, patients and guests
• Complies with all applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures, supporting the organization’s corporate integrity efforts by acting in an ethical and appropriate manner, reporting known or suspected violation of applicable rules, and cooperating fully with all organizational investigations and proceedings.
• Delivers customer service and/or patient care in a manner that promotes goodwill, is timely, efficient and accurate.
• Performs stand by callback as assigned.

Qualifications

• Required: As required by RN licensure.
• Preferred: BSN
• LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION/REGISTRATION Required: Current Oregon RN license AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Provider certification.
• PREFERRED: Department specific acute care certification. (i.e. Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse, RN-BC)
• Experience Required: N/A
• Preferred: 1 year recent acute care RN.
• Recent experience in a residential or hospital-based designated psychiatric unit/area strongly
• Knowledge of basic physiological, psychological, and psychosocial concepts including commonly used psychotropic medications.
• Experience in high needs patient population problem-solving and de-escalation skills, and concepts of disease processes.
• Experience dealing with the public and some clinical knowledge in the areas of mental and substance abuse disorders, counseling, and case management skills.