Psychiatric Nurse, Brockton Behavioral Health Center Rotating​/Nights w

Overview

Job Title:

Psychiatric Registered Nurse

Location:

Brockton Behavioral Health Center
Shift: 36 hours, Rotating Days/Nights with occasional weekend/holiday coverage

Position Summary:

Boston Medical Center is seeking a Psychiatric Nurse for its 82-bed behavioral health hospital located in Brockton, MA. The Brockton hospital operates as a behavioral health accountable care organization providing inpatient treatment and stabilization for individuals with complex mental health and substance use needs. Inpatient Psychiatric Nurses are a critical part of a multidisciplinary team focused on delivering quality behavioral health care to acute populations.

Under the general direction of the Nurse Manager, Psychiatric Nurses are dedicated team members responsible for direct patient care, including nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation, and coordination of care for patients and their families across the health care continuum. The Psychiatric Nurse is accountable for clinical, educational, quality, and fiscal patient care outcomes using the unit’s model of care and established agency policies, procedures, protocols, guidelines, and standards of practice.

The Psychiatric Nurse works collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to care for patients with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders who are engaged in services.

Standards of Care

• Consistently and effectively utilize all steps of the nursing process in the provision of timely, safe, efficient and appropriate patient/centered care.
• Assess the patient and family in a systematic and ongoing manner for both overt and covert signs and symptoms in accordance with the standards of clinical nursing practice.
• Collect pertinent data using appropriate assessment techniques.
• Prioritize data according to the patient’s immediate condition or needs.
• Involve the patient, family/significant others, and appropriate behavioral health care providers in data collection when appropriate.
• Use clear, concise and effective written/oral communication and comply with departmental policies when sharing/documenting relevant patient care data.
• Identify emergency/crisis situations, communicate them to the appropriate behavioral health care team members, and respond appropriately when needed.

• Analyze assessment data to determine appropriate nursing diagnoses. Demonstrates use of critical thinking skills and documents appropriate diagnoses from patient and family assessment data.

• Identify expected outcomes individualized to the patient. Derive and document realistic clinical and educational patient-centered outcomes consistent with the patient’s diagnoses, capabilities, and expectations. Develop outcomes as measurable goals with time estimates and provide direction for continuity of care. Mutually formulate outcomes with the patient, significant others, and the behavioral health care team when appropriate.

• Develop a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes. Develop and document an individualized plan of care reflecting the patient’s condition, prioritizing needs, and providing for continuity of care. Involve the client, significant others, and behavioral health care providers. Ensure plan aligns with current nursing practice standards, policies, procedures, protocols, and guidelines. Plan reflects effective use of resources and appropriate internal/external referrals to provide comprehensive care.

• Implements interventions identified in the nursing and medical plan of care. Prioritize interventions based on fluctuating patient and unit needs. Delegate appropriately to co-workers with required knowledge and skills. Maintain a safe, clean psychiatric unit environment using risk management practices. Demonstrates safe technical competence (e.g., direct care skills, informatics, equipment monitoring). Administers medications in accordance with standards, policies and protocols. Educates patients and families about illness, procedures, treatments, plan of care, health maintenance, promotion, and prevention.
  
  In emergency/crisis situations, demonstrates effective decision making and directs team…