Inpatient Psychiatric Registered Nurse (Santa Rosa) (Nursing)

Northern California Behavioral Health System•Santa Rosa, CA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare Hospital (SRBHH), formerly Aurora Santa Rosa Hospital, opened in 2016 and is a key part of the mental health system of care in Northern California. Located in the North Bay, this acute psychiatric inpatient facility has 144 beds and serves adolescents and adults with mental health conditions and co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse issues. The Inpatient Psychiatric RN's primary responsibility is to provide high-quality, safe care to psychiatric inpatients in an acute locked hospital setting. This role involves direct patient care, coordinating other nursing personnel, and planning and implementing individual nursing care plans and the multidisciplinary treatment plan (MDTP). The RN must adhere to SRBHH's mission, vision, and values, as well as all hospital policies and procedures. They must also understand the regulations governing acute psychiatric hospital services and ensure their team meets all requirements. Maintaining knowledge of and training in occupational health hazards, such as bloodborne pathogen exposures, is also crucial.

Requirements

Current California RN License
Current Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification required, or obtained within initial orientation period.
Verbal de-escalation and physical intervention program as approved by the CNO.
Knowledge and experience of psychiatric diagnosis and associated risks, medications, biological systems, nursing process, treatment planning, inpatient hospital unit operations, and leadership.
New RN graduates may meet these requirements if they have completed a psychiatric rotation as part of nursing school or have psychiatric experience in another role.
English proficiency required.

Nice To Haves

The Inpatient Psychiatric RN will pass initial and annual competency evaluations including (not limited to): suicide prevention, safe use of restraints, de-escalation interventions, medication knowledge, code blue/emergency interventions, infection prevention, and appropriate use of seclusion and restraints.
The Inpatient Psychiatric RN will demonstrate skill in applying knowledge and competency in daily nursing practice.
Maintain a working knowledge of commonly used policies, awareness of policy changes and knows where to find additional polices and needed information.

Responsibilities

Assess inpatient needs, nursing staff resources and complete inpatient/unit assignments based on acuity, inpatient treatment plan goals, and unit operations.
Assess all inpatients’ status, provide direct care to assigned group of inpatients, documents patient care and assessments rendered, prepares and administers medications as needed, and ensure necessary documentation is completed at the end of each shift.
Provide clinical summary information to other team members at treatment team meetings, shift reports and other hand-offs.
Provide continual oversight of all inpatients and inpatient psychiatric unit operations.
Work with nursing and other clinical staff to plan and document patient care.
Document care plans on the MDTP and include inpatient problems, goals for hospitalization, and short-term goals.
Include interventions provided by team members to assist inpatients in returning to a reasonable mental health status and ultimately lower level of care.
Provide patient care by routinely demonstrating knowledge of mental health diagnoses, standards of care, evidenced based practice, medications (including old and new psychotropic medications), high risks for mental health patients, National Patient Safety Goals, and models of care.
Apply nursing process and process improvement principles to all levels of the organization, from patient needs to hospital-wide needs.
Assess, collect data, define problems, set goals, initiate interventions and evaluate interventions.
Complete timely Incident Reports and submits them to the Nurse Manager or RN House Supervisor.
Identify staffing needs based on staffing plan and acuity assessments.
Provide direct clinical oversight to other nursing staff throughout the shift in conjunction with the Nurse Manager, RN House Supervisor, or Director of Nursing (DON) as appropriate.
Coordinate team members’ immediate response during psychiatric crises of inpatients and provide effective leadership at all times.
Perform other related duties as assigned.