RN Charge Psychiatric Acute Adult
About The Position
The RN Charge Psychiatric Acute Adult delivers compassionate, evidence-based nursing care and oversees a department of frontline nurses caring for patients. The role includes individualized, comprehensive care; critical assessments; skilled procedures; and implementation of patient care plans. The Charge Nurse collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes and adapts care to patients’ diagnoses, ages, and changing conditions. The nurse organizes and prioritizes care, advocates for patients, and applies current practice standards, guidelines, statutes, rules, and regulations. Responsibilities include assessing physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge, and cultural needs; creating individualized plans with measurable goals and time frames; involving patients and families in planning; coordinating with other disciplines; implementing and reassessing interventions; and updating care plans as needs change. The role also requires recognizing and responding to changes in patient condition in a timely, clinically appropriate manner. The position requires an Associate Degree in Nursing, graduation from an accredited RN program, at least six months of previous acute care RN experience in the same unit, an active California RN license, and American Heart Association BLS. New graduates and nurses new to the specialty are not currently being accepted. This position is represented by CNA and covered by the applicable collective bargaining agreement. The role is at Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center, a 334-bed acute care nonprofit hospital in Glendale, California.
Requirements
- Associate Degree in Nursing.
- Graduate of an accredited Registered Nurse program upon hire.
- Minimum of six months of previous acute care RN experience in the same unit.
- Active RN license from the State of California.
- BLS certification from the American Heart Association.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience in acute care, long-term care, or nursing homes.
Responsibilities
- Oversee a department of frontline nurses caring for patients.
- Provide effective, comprehensive, evidence-based nursing care to achieve desired health outcomes.
- Organize and prioritize patient care activities while considering patients’ needs and comfort.
- Collaborate with other disciplines to support a comprehensive, holistic, effective plan of care.
- Apply current practice standards, guidelines, statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Demonstrate accountability for ethical behavior and support ethical practice by addressing or escalating issues.
- Serve as a patient advocate.
- Complete competent patient assessments and identify unit-specific patient needs, including physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge, and cultural needs.
- Develop an individualized plan of care based on assessment, coordinate with other disciplines when indicated, prioritize care needs, and set measurable goals and time frames.
- Include patients and families in care planning.
- Implement interventions based on nursing and medical plans of care.
- Adapt interventions to patients’ populations, diagnoses, and age-specific needs.
- Use equipment and supplies appropriately, including following policies and procedures for transport, handling, and storage of intravenous fluids.
- Reassess patients after interventions to verify effectiveness and update plans of care to reflect current needs.
- Recognize and respond to changes in patients’ conditions in a timely and clinically appropriate manner.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
