Registered Nurse WEO 6a-10p

Fillmore Campus • Little Rock, AR

16h

About The Position

The Registered Nurse is a member of the patient/client care team and plans, coordinates, implements, and evaluates quality treatment according to standards. The role assesses clients’ health status and comprehension, establishes priorities, develops and updates goal-oriented health plans in accordance with physician orders, and delivers nursing treatment while responding to changing conditions and crises. The nurse collaborates with clients, significant others, treatment-team members, medical leadership, and other disciplines to coordinate care and prevent complications. Responsibilities also include documenting assessments and interventions, participating in quality assurance and staff meetings, and supporting ongoing professional development.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Current Arkansas Registered Nurse license.
• Physically capable of performing proper and necessary CPI holds.
• Able to sit and stand for long periods and intermittently walk, stand, stoop, kneel, crouch, and reach with hands and arms.
• Able to perform clinical duties requiring strength and stamina and to lift 50 pounds and hold it for one minute.
• Able to receive verbal and written directions.
• Good auditory, visual, and olfactory ability, including the ability to make observations and communicate effectively.
• Able to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Able to read and write, operate office and treatment equipment, use a telephone, and use a computer to review information and enter or retrieve data.
• Willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health.
• Flu shot required for all positions, subject to qualified exemptions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with adolescents and children in a psychiatric setting.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, implement, and evaluate the delivery of quality treatment as a member of the patient/client care team.
• Assist with quality assurance activities and report actual or potential problem areas according to department policy.
• Use observation, interviews, physical assessment, and advanced knowledge or tools to assess clients’ health status and comprehension.
• Prioritize client needs and problems according to actual or potential threats to the client.
• Organize and develop goal-oriented plans of care reflecting physician orders, identified priorities, and changes in client needs.
• Collaborate with significant others and treatment-team members in assessing and coordinating client care.
• Reassess clients as their condition changes and intervene appropriately; perform face-to-face assessments within one hour of restraint or seclusion when required.
• Identify crises involving clients’ physical or psychological needs and, when appropriate, collaborate with the Medical Director or Program Director to identify treatment and prevent complications or life-threatening situations.
• Make appropriate referrals for hospital physical or psychiatric inpatient treatment when needed and coordinate with managed care or insurance companies if necessary.
• Apply nursing knowledge and psychomotor skills to make decisions and deliver organized, humanistic treatment in collaboration with clients, significant others, and treatment-team members.
• Determine causes of significant differences between expected and actual client responses to plan appropriate interventions.
• Anticipate and prioritize nursing care under changing conditions, including life-threatening situations.
• Demonstrate, supervise, and assess competency for waived testing or phlebotomy.
• Document pertinent findings from admission assessment through discharge planning, identified problems and needs, nursing interventions, and significant incidents in accordance with required time frames and agency policy.
• Attend weekly staff meetings with the Program Director, Medical Director, and/or direct care staff.
• Maintain continuing education and professional development, contribute to others’ professional growth, and provide documentation of continuing education for the personnel department.
• Work with all patients of Methodist Family Health and comply with the mandatory flu-shot requirement, subject to qualified exemptions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits, including insurance, 401(k), paid sick time, and paid time off.
• Loan forgiveness eligibility.
• Quarterly retention bonuses available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time