Staff RN - Behavioral Health / Emergency - Part Time / Days

About the role

Functions as a member of the interdisciplinary team. Primary responsibility to care for patients with behavioral health needs. Utilizes the nursing process in the delivery of comprehensive and developmentally appropriate care to high-risk behavioral patients and their families. Acts as a psychiatric resource to the bedside teams by providing clinical support, monitoring compliance with system policies, guidelines, and documentation, and by maintaining a safe environment for patients with mental health needs.

Responsibilities

• Conducts individualized age-specific patient/family assessments according to defined unit scope and nursing practice standards, appropriate collaborative problems (CPG's)/nursing diagnoses (ND's), or protocols.
• Admission/Initial Assessment: Collects and documents data related to patient’s individualized care.
• Develops individualized patient/family plan of care using CPG/ND’s, and practice guidelines/protocols to meet identified needs in collaboration with Behavioral Health Team.
• Implements and evaluates nursing actions in accordance with the individualized patient/family plan of care and patient condition/needs.
• Ensures that the nursing and interdisciplinary plan of care/goals are coordinated, implemented, evaluated, and revised as needed.
• Reviews and updates computerized careplan to accurately reflect the plan of care.
• Completes and verifies accurate order entry in the computerized careplan.
• Ensures that discharge instructions clearly state patient care needs after discharge.
• Provides and/or coordinates with other disciplines patient/family education according to identified care needs, considering assessment of patient/family’s readiness to learn.
• Delivers competent and skilled nursing care to patients and families according to their identified needs.
• Provides content expertise and education to staff caring for high-risk patients and assists staff in finding available resources related to behavioral health patients.
• Audits BERT documentation and assists in collecting, inputting, and sharing BERT data in real time.
• Attends BERT events in the role of the Psychiatry RN.
• Assists with patient de-escalation, restraints application if needed, thorough and accurate documentation, and participates in the debriefing afterwards.

Requirements

Associate's Degree from an accredited school of nursing Required or Bachelor's Degree from an accredited school of nursing Required
2 years of psychiatric nursing experience Required
Preferred Previous experience with EPIC
Preferred Previous experience with ENPC (Emergency Nursing Pediatric Certification)

Qualifications

• BLS - Basic Life Support through the American Heart Association Upon Hire Required
• PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support within 180 Days Required
• ENPC - Emergency Nursing Pediatric Certification (ED only) within 1 Year Required

Skills

Must be able to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature, without loss of efficiency or composure, and be able to perform under stressful conditions when confronted with multiple requests, demonstrating prioritizing skills.

Benefits

Children’s is the very best for kids and the very best for your career! At Children’s, we put YOU first so together, we can improve the life of every child!

Pay

N/A

Schedule

7a-7:30pm with weekend and holiday rotation - 12 hours