HOUSE SUPV (RN) Weekend Nights

UHS•Austin, TX

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Austin Oaks Hospital offers a continuum of psychiatric services for adolescents and for adults. Located in South Austin, Texas on a beautiful thirteen-acre oak lined campus. We strive to provide a home-like environment that promotes crisis resolution, positive self-awareness, social skills, and personal growth. We are proud to be your community partner in mental health. The cornerstone of our treatment rests on exceptional mental health services and clinical excellence. Austin Oaks Hospital provides inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services to stabilize symptoms of depression, anxiety and other behavioral health disorders. More than anything else, our treatment relies on exceptional mental health services and dependable clinical staff. Austin Oaks Hospital provides inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services to stabilize symptoms of depression, anxiety and other behavioral health disorders. Position Summary House Supervisor-Registered Nurse (RN) Nights key responsibilities include but not limited to: Provide clinical supervision over Nursing Services, including effective utilization of the nursing process to provide quality patient care, establish Standards of Practice, and provide effective fiscal management. Provides for patient and employee safety and well-being. Assists with staff supervision. Monitors patient care and unit processes to assure a safe customer focused approach. Maintains a high level of clinical competency and projects high standards of performance expectation from personnel on the unit. Monitors educational needs of staff and assists with on-going staff development opportunities. Maintains, follows, and understands the regulatory requirements. Manages the scheduling and staffing. Monitors documentation on a daily basis for accuracy of progress notes, charting and ensuring that the documentation is timely and complete. Participates in facility committees and projects as assigned. Conducts and documents incident investigations. Is directly or collaboratively involved in counseling disciplinary and evaluative activities for department staff. Assumes responsibility for own professional growth. Maintains professional demeanor in dress, attitude and support of facility mission and philosophy. include but not limited to: Provide nursing care for psychiatric patients using the nursing process. To assess mental health needs, develop nursing diagnoses, identify outcomes, plan and evaluate nursing care. To administer and/or monitor the effects and side effects of medications and treatments ordered by a physician. To ensure safety and provide milieu management and crisis intervention strategies. About Universal Health Services Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) is one of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services. Since our founding in 1979, UHS has grown steadily into a premier Fortune 500® corporation perennially recognized by multiple esteemed national rating entities. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates inpatient acute care facilities, inpatient behavioral health facilities, outpatient and other facilities, nationwide virtual behavioral health services, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services with physical locations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Ireland and United Kingdom. www.uhs.com.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
Licensed by the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas (or licensed in a compact state).
1- 3 yrs psychiatric nursing experience with 1 year suoervision experience

Responsibilities

Provide clinical supervision over Nursing Services, including effective utilization of the nursing process to provide quality patient care, establish Standards of Practice, and provide effective fiscal management.
Provides for patient and employee safety and well-being.
Assists with staff supervision.
Monitors patient care and unit processes to assure a safe customer focused approach.
Maintains a high level of clinical competency and projects high standards of performance expectation from personnel on the unit.
Monitors educational needs of staff and assists with on-going staff development opportunities.
Maintains, follows, and understands the regulatory requirements.
Manages the scheduling and staffing.
Monitors documentation on a daily basis for accuracy of progress notes, charting and ensuring that the documentation is timely and complete.
Participates in facility committees and projects as assigned.
Conducts and documents incident investigations.
Is directly or collaboratively involved in counseling disciplinary and evaluative activities for department staff.
Assumes responsibility for own professional growth.
Maintains professional demeanor in dress, attitude and support of facility mission and philosophy.
Provide nursing care for psychiatric patients using the nursing process.
To assess mental health needs, develop nursing diagnoses, identify outcomes, plan and evaluate nursing care.
To administer and/or monitor the effects and side effects of medications and treatments ordered by a physician.
To ensure safety and provide milieu management and crisis intervention strategies.