RN Psych Acute
About The Position
As an RN Psych Acute, you will be a central member of the patient care team, providing compassionate care and collaborating on comprehensive screenings, conducting risk assessments, providing preventative health education, and coordinating care for diverse patient populations. You will use technology to streamline processes, guide patients through instructions, and address their concerns. The role requires clinical knowledge, technological proficiency, compassion, strong communication, adaptability, and a patient-centered approach. You will complete assessments, admissions, transfers, shift assessments, and discharge assessments within hospital policy time frames, and reassess patient status as needed. You will identify psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, learning, and discharge-planning needs; recognize predictable and high-risk patient problems and initiate appropriate interventions; and consider how physiological and environmental factors affect patients and families. You will also identify patients’ and families’ coping mechanisms and support systems and assess their effectiveness.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited Registered Nurse (RN) program.
- Associate of Nursing.
- One year of RN experience.
- Active RN license from the State of California.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) - CPR.
Responsibilities
- Complete assessments, admissions, transfers, shift assessments, and discharge assessments within hospital policy time frames.
- Reassess patient status as indicated.
- Identify psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, learning, and discharge-planning needs.
- Identify predictable patient problems, life-threatening situations, and low-volume/high-risk problems; anticipate less predictable problems and initiate appropriate interventions.
- Recognize the relationship between physiological and environmental factors and their effects on patients and families.
- Identify current patient and family coping mechanisms and support systems, and assess their effectiveness.
- Collaborate on screenings, conduct risk assessments, provide preventative health education, and coordinate patient care.
- Guide patients through instructions and address their concerns.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
