RN Behavioral Health Unit (Casual), Forbes Hospital

About the role

Forbes Behavioral Health Unit is the largest in the Allegheny Health Network with 37 beds, serving an adult‑only population with various mental health illnesses. Allegheny Health Network (AHN) is a 9‑hospital system part of Highmark Health, committed to inclusive, patient‑centered care and offering growth and educational opportunities. Forbes Hospital is a 315‑bed Level II trauma hospital in Monroeville, providing trauma, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, interventional cardiology, obstetrics, psychiatry, and other city‑hospital service lines while maintaining community relationships.

Responsibilities

• Assesses human responses and plans, implements and evaluates nursing care for individuals or families.
• Provides leadership in a professional practice setting.
• Acts as a team player who contributes to building the team by helping others succeed through role modeling and mentoring.
• Assigns or delegates tasks based on patient needs and skill level of RN, LPN or support staff.
• Assigns duties and lunches for staff when performing charge role.
• Considers maintenance of a safe environment, patient condition, complexity of intervention and predictability of outcome.
• Provides peers with verbal and written feedback regarding clinical practice and role performance.
• Shares knowledge and skills with peers and colleagues.
• Willingly accepts mistakes of self and others, creating a culture in which risk taking is safe and expected.
• Participates on interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical care or health services.
• Promotes patient safety initiatives (e.g., National Patient Safety Goals).
• Participates in department‑specific quality initiatives (e.g., EBP population‑specific).
• Assures appropriate order sets are used.
• Supervises, delegates and evaluates assigned LPN scope of practice as appropriate.
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, evaluate and implement a patient plan of care according to individual needs as prescribed by physician, nurse and hospital policy, including patient and family involvement.
• Derives culturally and age‑appropriate expected outcomes involving the patient, family and other health‑care providers.
• Analyzes health status of individuals and families, comparing data with norms when possible, to determine patient care needs.
• Assesses patient reports/records, notes change of condition, notifies physician and/or supervisor, intervenes appropriately and documents accordingly.
• Accepts assignments in areas other than primary unit and performs duties within individualized competency.
• Demonstrates commitment to continuous lifelong learning for self and others.
• Promotes advancement of the profession through participation in professional organizations.
• Seeks formal and independent learning activities using current research and evidence to maintain and develop clinical and professional skills.
• Participates in systematic peer review and obtains informal feedback regarding one’s own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues and others.
• Identifies areas of strength and areas where professional development would be beneficial.
• Meets time and attendance guidelines per hospital policy.
• Continuously evaluates and assesses patient and family satisfaction.
• Participates in department‑specific patient satisfaction initiatives.
• Promotes compassionate, patient‑ and family‑centered communication.
• Assesses for and attempts to resolve patient/family concerns.
• Utilizes effective time‑management skills to complete assigned duties within established work shift.

Qualifications

• Current State of PA RN licensure OR current multi‑state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
• Preferred: Certification in area of specialty.
• CPR certification.
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.