Psych RN - Sharp Grossmont Hospital Behavioral Health - Intensive Treatment Program - Nights

Hours

• Shift Start Time: 7 PM
• Shift End Time: 7:30 AM
• AWS Hours Requirement: 12/36 - 12 Hour Shift
• Weekend Requirements:
  As Needed
• On-Call
  
  Required:
  
  No
• Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $56.580 - $70.170 - $83.760
• Pay scale reflects the range as defined by the collective bargaining agreement between Sharp Health Care and Sharp Professional Nurses Network, United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, NUHHCE, AFSME, AFL-CIO. Placement within the range is based on years of RN experience.

What You Will Do

To provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.

• Graduate of nursing school.
• 2 Years clinical experience.
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing - REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association - REQUIRED

• Delegates/assigns and communicates expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team. Knowledgeable about what can and cannot be delegated. Responsible for delegation and follows through to ensure delegated task is complete. Before delegating, analyzes each situation, determines and consistently applies levels of supervision needed.
• Documents per department/entity guidelines of care and policies and procedures. Comprehensive; representing detailed, concise picture of patient's care. Serves as a resource for other staff in managing unit specific documentation issues. Charting reflects a critical thinking/problem oriented approach to patient issues.
• Establishes a therapeutic relationship with patient and family. Anticipates problems to establishing/maintaining a therapeutic relationship. Analyzes social/cultural variables and adapts nursing interventions to meet diverse needs. Serves as a patient advocate through actions such as removing obstacles, identifying and supporting appropriate needs and wants; interpreting for patient to physician and vice versa.
• Helps coworkers improve performance offers assistance and support to coworkers. Provides positive feedback to others. Provides unit specific information to students, floats, travelers/registry personnel and documents appropriately. Provides incidental teaching to members of the team. Looks for and applies ways to improve work processes and systems.
• Provides age appropriate patient education that facilitates recovery, self-care, end-of-life care and health maintenance, health promotion, and wellness. Coordinates transfer and discharge planning and teaching in collaboration with other members of the health care team. Collaborates with other team members to identify, develop and/or revise patient education materials. Demonstrates flexibility to teaching based on assessment of learner's needs and the integration of adult learning principles.
• Uses systematic planning, appropriate methods and timely exchange of information with multidisciplinary team and patient/family to coordinate care. Demonstrates ability to focus on and manage multiple patient needs and aspects of care. Actively communicates with care team to plan patient care. Utilizes available resources to problem-solve and determine most effective approach to action.
• Utilizes the nursing process and a critical thinking approach to provide patient care that incorporates the mind, body and spirit; individualized, goal directed, consistent with current standards of safety. Identifies actual/potential problems for which the patient is tinuously evaluates interventions and care, adjusting the plan as patient and family needs change. Identifies need for referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments.
  
  Collaborates with patient, family and other team members to develop a comprehensive plan of care. Prioritizes demand for resources and collaborates with others to meet individualized patient needs. Acts as preceptor/teacher guiding other nurses. Makes appropriate referrals. Implements safe, therapeutic and efficient care for patients with complex needs due to mult-system disease and/or complications of treatment. Demonstrates accountability for achieving patient outcomes.
  
  Demonstrates an ability to quickly recognize a patient diagnosis even though presenting symptoms or situations may be dissimilar.

• Independently performs the nursing process through individualized assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of safe, therapeutic, efficient care for patients with overt and subtle needs throughout the continuum of care, and according to unit's standards of care. Performs safe nursing care for patients in more complex situations with some assistance and supervision. Demonstrates competency in all areas of the unit skills and some advanced skills.
  
  May teach some skills competencies. Coordinates patient care administered by other members of the care team. May assume the responsibility of relief charge nurse and may assist with preceptorship/professional…