Registered Nurse WEO 6a-6p

Fillmore Campus•Little Rock, AR

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) will cooperate as a member of the patient/client care team to plan, coordinate, implement, and evaluate the delivery of quality treatment according to standards. This role assists with quality assurance activities specific to United Methodist Children’s Home, Inc. to identify actual or potential problem areas and report as per department policy. The RN will demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills to facilitate collaboration with personnel and other disciplines of the treatment team. The position requires utilizing observation, interviews, and physical assessment to determine client’s health status and comprehension level, and employing advanced knowledge and/or tools to obtain data not otherwise available. The RN will establish priority of needs/problems according to actual/potential threat to the client, and organize and develop a goal-oriented health plan of care reflecting physician’s orders and identified client needs. Collaboration with significant others and the treatment team in assessing client care is essential. The RN will reassess the client and priority of needs as the condition changes to intervene appropriately. This role may perform face-to-face assessments within one hour of restraint and/or seclusion. The RN identifies crisis situations pertaining to the client’s physical and/or psychological needs and, when appropriate, collaborates with the Medical Director and/or Program Director to assess and identify treatment to prevent complications and life-threatening situations. When needed, the RN makes appropriate referrals for hospital physical and/or psychiatric in-patient treatment and coordinates with managed care/insurance companies if necessary. The RN integrates current nursing health care knowledge with competency in psycho-motor skills to make appropriate decisions and acts to render treatment in an organized, yet humanistic manner, preventing complications and life-threatening situations. Treatment implementation is done in collaboration with the client, significant others, and treatment team members to coordinate activities of other disciplines involved in client’s treatment. The RN attempts to determine the cause of significant differences in expected and actual responses of clients to appropriately plan interventions and anticipates and prioritizes nursing care delivered under changing conditions to appropriately respond to life-threatening situations. The RN can demonstrate, supervise, and assess competency for waived testing or for phlebotomy. Thorough documentation of all pertinent findings from admission assessment to discharge planning process is required to create/add to the client’s permanent record within the specified timeframe and for communication with other disciplines. Records identified problems and needs as a basis for developing the initial plan of treatment. Documents nursing interventions based on reassessment and/or evaluation findings to evidence appropriate action. Documents significant incidents, facts, or observations accurately and promptly through appropriate means as per Agency policy and procedure. Weekly staff meetings with the Program Director, Medical Director, and/or Direct Care Staff are required. Responsibility is assumed for continuing educational and professional development, and contributions are made to the professional growth of others. Continuing education, etc. will be documented and copies provided to the personnel department to be kept in the employee’s record.

Requirements

Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing.
Current Arkansas Registered Nurse license.
Physically capable of performing the proper and necessary CPI holds.
Ability to sit and stand for long periods of time and intermittently walk, stand, stoop, kneel, crouch and reach with hands and arms.
Strength and stamina to perform clinical duties.
Physically able to lift 50 pounds and hold for one minute.
Physically capable of receiving verbal and written directions.
Physically capable of sitting and standing for several hours at a time.
Good auditory, visual and olfactory ability.
Ability to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.
Ability to maintain effective audio, visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating office equipment and other treatment equipment.
Ability to use a telephone to communicate verbally and a computer to communicate through written means, to review information and enter/retrieve data, to see and read characters on a computer screen, chart or other treatment items.
Willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health.
Fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to CMS regulation 86 FR 61555, with exceptions only as required by law.
Mandatory flu shot required for all positions (subject to qualified exemptions).

Nice To Haves

Experience with adolescents and children in a psychiatric setting preferred.

Responsibilities

Cooperate as a member of the patient/client care team to plan, coordinate, implement and evaluate the delivery of quality treatment according to standards.
Assist with quality assurance activities specific to United Methodist Children’s Home, Inc. to identify actual or potential problem areas and report as per department policy.
Demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills to facilitate collaboration with personnel and other disciplines of the treatment team.
Utilize observation, interviews and physical assessment to determine client’s health status and comprehension level.
Utilize advanced knowledge base and/or advance tools to obtain data not otherwise available by observation examination or history.
Establish priority of needs/problems according to actual/potential threat to client.
Organize and develop a goal-oriented health plan of care to reflect the physician’s orders and the priority of identified client needs and changes of such.
Collaborate with significant others and treatment team in assessing client care.
Reassess client and priority of needs as condition changes to intervene appropriately.
May perform face to face assessments within one hour of restraint and/or seclusion.
Identify crisis situations pertaining to client’s physical and/or psychological needs.
When appropriate, collaborate with Medical Director and/or Program Director to assess and identify treatment to prevent complications and life-threatening situation.
When needed, make appropriate referrals for hospital physical and/or psychiatric in-patient treatment.
Coordinate with managed care/insurance companies if necessary.
Integrate current nursing health care knowledge with competency in psycho-motor skills to make appropriate decisions and acts to render treatment.
Implement treatment in an organized, yet humanistic manner, preventing complications and life-threatening situations.
Implement treatment in collaboration with client, significant others and treatment team members to coordinate activities of other disciplines involved in client’s treatment.
Attempt to determine the cause of significant differences in expected and actual responses of clients, in order to appropriately plan interventions.
Anticipate and prioritize nursing care delivered under changing conditions in order to appropriately respond to life threatening situations.
Demonstrate, supervise, and assess competency for waived testing or for phlebotomy.
Thoroughly document all pertinent findings from admission assessment to discharge planning process to create/ add to client’s permanent record within the time frame specified and for communication with other disciplines.
Record identified problems and needs as a basis for developing initial plan of treatment.
Document nursing interventions based on reassessment and/or evaluation findings in order to evidence appropriate action.
Document significant incidents, facts or observations accurately and promptly through appropriate means as per Agency policy and procedure.
Attend weekly staff meetings with Program Director, Medical Director and/or Direct Care Staff.
Assume responsibility for continuing educational and professional development and make contributions to the professional growth of others.
Document continuing education and provide copies to the personnel department.