KCPC Inpatient Registered Nurse, full-time

Seven Counties Services • La Grange, KY

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About The Position

This competent Psychiatric Registered Nurse practices psychiatric-mental health nursing and performs general nursing tasks to support the holistic care and treatment of patients’ medical and psychiatric needs. The nurse uses specialized knowledge, skills, and abilities gained through education and experience caring for people with behavioral health needs, psychiatric disorders, and co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders.

The role participates in assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcomes identification, care planning and implementation, care coordination, health teaching, and health promotion for a unique patient population. Psychiatric-mental health nursing functions also include individual and group counseling and safety management of the therapeutic milieu in a secure forensic facility. The nurse provides counseling interventions such as communication and interviewing techniques, problem-solving activities, crisis intervention, stress management, supportive skill building, educational groups, relaxation techniques, assertiveness training, and conflict resolution.

Nurses are expected to provide mission-driven leadership focused on patient care and quality improvement and to follow facility policies and procedures. The role is subject to time and attendance policies, including mandatory overtime, recall to duty, being held over, and irregular day or shift rotation as needed to provide adequate facility coverage. The position is designated as essential for mandatory operations and is not eligible for Adverse Weather Leave.

Requirements

• Specialized knowledge, skills, and abilities obtained through education and experience in caring for people with behavioral health needs, psychiatric disorders, and co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders.
• Adherence to facility policies and procedures and time and attendance policies, including mandatory overtime and schedule changes as needed.

Responsibilities

• Perform general nursing tasks to support holistic care and treatment of patients’ medical and psychiatric needs.
• Participate in patient assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcomes identification, care planning and implementation, and coordination of care.
• Provide health teaching and promote health for the patient population.
• Provide individual and group counseling and manage safety in the therapeutic milieu of a secure forensic facility.
• Provide counseling interventions, including communication and interviewing techniques, problem-solving activities, crisis intervention, stress management, supportive skill building, educational groups, relaxation techniques, assertiveness training, and conflict resolution.
• Exercise mission-driven leadership focused on patient care and quality improvement.
• Follow facility policies and procedures and comply with applicable time and attendance requirements.
• Work mandatory overtime, be recalled to duty or held over, and rotate day or shift schedules irregularly when necessary to ensure facility coverage.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed