Rn - Inpatient Psych

Pay

Base pay range: $34.84/hr - $47.33/hr

Sign-On Bonus Available

Relocation Assistance Available

Receive 17% Weekday Night, 26% Weekend Night, and 15% Weekend Day shift differentials

Minimum

Offer:

$34.84/hr

Maximum

Offer:

$47.33/hr

Provide professional nursing care for assigned patients in a mental health/psychiatric environment. Design nursing care plans and assist in the development of overall care plans for psychiatric patients, ensuring administration of appropriate care in a manner conducive to recovery. Ensure adherence to hospital and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment may include pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric age groups.

• Interview, examine, and assess the health status of psychiatric patients with various cognitive, emotional, developmental, social, and behavioral disorders.
• Observe patient behavior, activities, and mental status; perform triage and crisis intervention.
• Write treatment plans; coordinate patient drug and procedure activities; administer medication and treatment; provide nursing care of assigned patients; facilitate group therapy and/or education sessions.
• Chart and report observed symptoms, reactions, treatments, and changes in the patients' conditions; collect and document data and information; perform computerized data entry.
• Perform nursing intakes, draw blood and other patient specimens; may perform or coordinate laboratory tests.
• Educate patients and families on treatment regimens, management of side effects, and compliance with the treatment plans; provide emotional support and advocate for patients and families.
• Provide information and facilitate communication between physicians, medical students, staff, patients, families, and community; coordinate and consult with a milieu of service providers.
• Follow established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous quality improvement objectives, and safety, environmental, and infection control standards.
• Enhance professional growth and development through educational programs, current literature, in–services, meetings, and workshops.
• Perform administrative functions such as monitoring expenditures and preparing reports and correspondence; participate in research projects to develop service plans; propose changes to program policies and procedures.
• Participate in orientation; after preceptor training, assume precepting and evaluation responsibilities of new personnel.
• Assist with special tests and procedures, ensuring proper consent is obtained.
• Assist with or institute emergency measures for sudden, adverse developments in patients.
• Administer medication, including IV medication, via the Seven Rights; document and communicate clinical findings.
• Maintain a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic environment for patients/families in accordance with hospital standards.
• Follow patient safety–related policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve safety through questioning current policies and processes.
• Identify and report/correct environmental conditions that may put a patient at undue risk.
• Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors, and/or near misses in a timely manner.
• Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they do not understand or may seem incorrect.

• Education (Essential):
  Program Graduate.
• Education (Nonessential):
  Bachelor's Degree.
• Education Specialization (Essential):
  Nationally Accredited Nursing Graduate.
• Education Specialization (Nonessential):
  Nursing.
• Experience (Nonessential):
  Bilingual English, Spanish, Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo; 1 year directly related experience.
• Credentials (Essential): CPR for Healthcare/BLS Provider or Professional Rescuer within 30 days; RN in NM or as allowed by reciprocal agreement by NM.

Heavy Work:
Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects or people. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Medium Work.

• Working Conditions (Essential):
  Sig Haz:
  Physical risk/injuries due to combative patients.
• Working Conditions (Essential):
  Sig Hazard:
  Chemicals, Bio Hazardous Materials requiring PPE.