RN | Behavioral Health | Full-Time | Days (Laconia/Franklin)

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care.
• Bases nursing actions by applying principles of purposeful, organized thinking to make clinical judgment/decisions.
• Gathers data through history taking and physical assessment and interprets data in order to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.
• Develops, evaluates and revises patient's plan of care and nursing actions in response to patient's needs.
• Documents care provided and patient's progress toward attainment of desired outcomes.
• Directs and supervises others in the performance of delegated nursing activities.
• Teaches the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care.
• Prepares patients to manage their care after discharge, transfer or preparation for procedure/test.
• Manages time and resources to deliver patient care.
• Administers medications to patients.

Requirements

• One year prior clinical nursing experience.
• Evidence of experience in working effectively and positively with patients, care providers, and the multi-disciplinary team.
• Evidence of the ability to perform as a member of a team.

Qualifications

• Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing, BSN preferred.
• Certified, Registered Nurse - New Hampshire Board of Nursing.
• Basic Life Support - American Heart Association.

Skills

• Knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• Ability to interpret data in order to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.
• Ability to develop, evaluate and revise patient's plan of care and nursing actions in response to patient's needs.
• Ability to teach the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care.
• Ability to prepare patients to manage their care after discharge, transfer or preparation for procedure/test.
• Ability to manage time and resources to deliver patient care.
• Ability to administer medications to patients.

Benefits

Refer to "Management of Mandatory Required Certification, Competencies, Education/Training-Nursing" Policy for department specific certifications.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

N/A

Concord Hospital is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Physical And Work Requirements

• The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is MEDIUM.
• The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 - 25 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 - 50 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to do fine motor, hear, speak, and walk.
• The employee is frequently required to bend, reach, sit, squat, and stand.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb, do repetitive motion, kneel, and smell.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.
• The employee is frequently exposed to airborne pathogens, blood borne pathogens, and bodily fluids.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne contaminants, chemotherapeutic agents, electrical hazards - shock, moving mechanical parts, non-weather related heat or cold, slippery surfaces, and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.