RN Acute Psychosis PT (32 hrs per week)

Medical University of South Carolina

16h•Onsite

About The Position

MUSC Leatherman Behavioral Care Pavilion is seeking a Registered Nurse to join their Acute Psychosis Team. This role involves providing comprehensive nursing care to patients by utilizing the nursing process, which includes assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The Registered Nurse will also direct and lead other assigned team members and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver age and developmentally appropriate care in accordance with established nursing standards. Key aspects of the role include providing patient/family-centered care that addresses physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs. This encompasses developing nursing diagnoses, identifying outcomes, planning and implementing interventions, coordinating care, providing health teaching and promotion, and evaluating goals, all consistent with MUSC policies. The nurse is responsible for maintaining a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment by ensuring patient privacy and demonstrating responsive, respectful, accepting, and professional behavior. The position requires active participation in a professional practice model, including shared governance, adherence to standards of care, peer review, and professional development to foster leadership and clinical excellence, effective team skills, autonomous practice, accountability, and critical thinking. The RN will also coordinate the efficient delivery of patient care services using care management principles, identify clinical priorities, and initiate actions to improve patient outcomes. The facility is a non-MAGNET hospital.

Requirements

Associate's Degree
A minimum of one year of work experience as a registered nurse
Licensure as a registered nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing or a compact state
Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers certification

Responsibilities

Provides nursing care to patients using the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation)
Directs and leads other assigned team members
Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members to provide age/developmentally appropriate care in accordance with nursing standards of care and practice
Provide patient/family centered care using the nursing process and focusing on the physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs
Providing for the assessment, development of nursing diagnoses, outcome identification, planning, implementation of interventions, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion and evaluation of goals and interventions consistent with the policies of MUSC
Maintains a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment through ensuring patient privacy and responsive, respectful, accepting, and professional behavior
Demonstrates the ability to function in a professional setting through active participation in a professional practice model
Participating in shared governance, adherence to standards of care, participation in peer review and professional development promoting leadership and clinical excellence, effective team skills, autonomous practice and acknowledgment of accountability for actions and critical thinking
Coordinates the effective and efficient delivery of patient care services through the application of care management principles
Identifies clinical priorities and initiates action to improve patient outcomes
Demonstrates ability to function in a professional practice model through active participation in shared governance, promotion of a healthy work environment and acceptance of personal responsibility for professional growth