RN - NMC Psychiatric

Responsibilities

• Maintains standards of professional nursing practice and creates positive therapeutic relationships with patients/families.
• Provides leadership to other team members by articulating and delegating expected standards of care, supervising, encouraging team members, and supporting their contributions.
• Supervises LPNs, PCAs, PCA/ISs, OTs, and/or US.
• Affords assessments on each assigned patient on admission and on an ongoing basis, including but not limited to the patient’s physical condition, psychological status, social status, spiritual and cultural needs, pain assessment/management, nutritional and functional status, developmental or age-related factors, and discharge planning needs.
• Plans, provides, and documents patient and/or significant other education based on physical, behavioral, psychological, developmental, and age-related factors, after identifying barriers to learning.
• Evaluates and regularly reevaluates patient care; coordinates care planning with patient, family, providers, and other disciplines to achieve patient-centered outcomes.
• Sets and delegates nursing care to team members in accordance with the patient’s needs and the capabilities of the team members.
• Applies safety principles when performing care and accurately documents observations, care provided, and changes in care plan.
• Participates in transition rounds, care planning/problem identification, and team shift reports.
• Assists in performance improvement (PI) activities by serving on PI teams as warranted, assisting with PI measures, and supporting and implementing changes necessary for improvement.
• Maintains initial and annual competency per job class.

Qualifications

• Current Alabama RN Licensure.
• Must be able to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English.

Physical Requirements

• Physical presence onsite is essential.
• Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.
• Able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Able to tolerate prolonged periods of standing and walking.
• Able to lift and carry 50 pounds with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Able to push stretcher/wheelchair with average adult patient.
• Able to do frequent stooping and on occasion crouching, crawling, or kneeling.
• Able to reach reasonable distances in any direction.
• Able to run in emergency situations.
• Able to move fingers in a coordinated manner.
• Able to feel and perceive temperature, texture, shape, and size with fingertips.

Environmental Factors

• Includes exposure to human body fluids, disease, infection, lab chemicals, and hazard materials and/or cleaning solutions.
• Requires wearing common protective or safety equipment.

Psychological Requirements

• Demonstrates leadership skills.
• Delegates to team members.
• Addresses conflict.
• Effective communication skills with all types of personalities.
• Responsible for outcomes/results.