Registered Nurse PRN Days

Oceans Healthcare • Midland, TX

104d

About The Position

At Oceans Behavioral Hospital Permian Basin, healing is our focus. We are passionate about helping adults and seniors manage the challenges associated with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. Utilizing proven, innovative and progressive therapies, our qualified professionals strive to promote long-term wellness through a range of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric counseling and treatment options. The Registered Nurse assumes primary leadership accountability and responsibility for milieu management and directing patient care activities of other nursing staff. The Registered Nurse maintains standards of professional nursing practice in accordance with facility policy and procedures, other external governing and credentialing bodies, performance improvement standards, and psychiatric nursing standards. The Registered Nurse assesses the patient utilizing the nursing process to formulate an individualized plan of care for each patient, implements interventions, and evaluates outcomes consistent with policy and appropriate to the current client's condition, which promote, maintain, and restore physical and mental health, and prevent illness.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse licensure.
• Experience in psychiatric nursing.
• Knowledge of psychiatric disorders and appropriate nursing interventions.
• Ability to administer medications safely and provide education on prescribed medications.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with inpatient and outpatient psychiatric counseling.
• Continuing education in psychiatric nursing.
• Leadership experience in a nursing role.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes the nursing process: assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation to formulate nursing interventions directed towards development of an individualized plan of care and treatment modalities.
• Identifies risk levels, precautions, and expected outcomes individualized to the client to include discharge planning.
• Prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes and evaluates the effectiveness of interventions in relation to expected outcomes.
• Conducts ongoing assessment of clients from admission to discharge and initiates medical/psychiatric crisis intervention to stabilize and ensure the well-being of the patient's conditions.
• Demonstrates knowledge of psychiatric disorders and appropriate nursing interventions.
• Implements nursing interventions identified in the plan of care that is individualized to the patient needs.
• Administers medications as prescribed safely and provides education on prescribed medications.
• Recognizes signs and symptoms of adverse drug reactions.
• Demonstrates professionalism, accountability, and responsibility for decision making, quality nursing care, and knowledge base of psychiatric nursing care.
• Reviews, revises, and updates medical records within facility guidelines and timeframes.
• Transcribes and implements physician's orders according to facility policy.
• Documents care, progress, response to intervention in medical record in an accurate, thorough and concise manner.
• Follows up on client care responsibilities, communicates incomplete assignments, and current client needs to staff to assure continuity of care.
• Implements staff assignments and delegation of duties using appropriate judgment and knowledge.
• Demonstrates positive willingness to assist staff and patients; functions as an advocate for patient needs/safety.
• Utilizes nursing knowledge to successfully meet the needs of the facility, patient population, and staff members.
• Utilizes nursing resources to enhance evidence-based practice.
• Floats among various clinical services, where qualified and competent, and performs other duties and projects as assigned.

Benefits

• Sponsorships for Registered Nurses.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree