PRN Registered Nurse (RN) Weekends Nights
About The Position
The Registered Nurse provides clinical oversight for the hospital’s day-to-day operations and works with patients in a therapeutic setting. The role carries out physician orders; completes assessments; initiates and updates treatment plans; directs patient care; provides group and individual therapy and education; coordinates intake referrals and continuity of care; and applies treatment, restraint, or seclusion interventions as appropriate. The nurse supports patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, family education, and the teaching and supervision of other mental healthcare workers. The position evaluates patients’ care on admission and on an ongoing basis, ensures nursing care plans are developed and kept current, makes patient-care assignments, reviews staffing schedules and adjusts for nursing staff absences, and provides emergency care. It also includes comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment and tests, psychiatric metric measures, pharmaceutical services within the scope of licensure and education, and discharge planning and reassessment to arrange appropriate post-hospital care without unnecessary delays.
Requirements
- One year of clinical nursing experience; experience in geriatrics and/or mental health is preferred.
- Graduate from an accredited school of nursing with a Registered Nursing (RN) degree.
- Current state Registered Nursing (RN) license.
- Current CPR certification.
- Current CPI certification.
- Must be willing and able to work flexible hours.
- Travel is required.
- Frequent lifting of objects up to 40 pounds is required.
Nice To Haves
- Clinical nursing experience in geriatrics and/or mental health.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate each patient’s care on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice.
- Ensure nursing staff develop and maintain current nursing care plans for each patient.
- Make patient-care assignments.
- Review staffing schedules and adjust nursing staff coverage to meet patient-care needs when staff are absent.
- Administer IVs and perform venipuncture as authorized by state law.
- Educate patients and families about medication administration, patient disorders and needs, benefits and side effects, disease prevention, and basic living skills.
- Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests.
- Complete psychiatric metric measures.
- Provide pharmaceutical services within the scope of licensure and education.
- Develop discharge plans, reassess plans before discharge, and arrange appropriate post-hospital care while avoiding unnecessary discharge delays.
- Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate timeframes.
- Carry out physician orders and direct patient care.
- Initiate and update treatment plans and provide group and individual therapy or education.
- Refer patients for intake and continuum of care.
- Apply treatment and restraint or seclusion interventions as appropriate.
- Complete clinical documentation, educate family members, and teach and supervise other mental healthcare workers.
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Education Level
Associate degree
