Staff Nurse-Inpatient Behavioral Health-7P-7A-SIGN ON BONUS!

Broadlawns Medical Center • Socorro, NM

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About The Position

The Staff Nurse provides nursing care to patients in the inpatient behavioral health unit. Duties include administering medications, monitoring vital signs, documenting patients’ conditions, and educating patients and families about medical conditions. The nurse works with supervising physicians to assess and monitor patient needs and ensure treatment and care follow facility procedures.

The nurse maintains nursing-care standards and facility policies, conducts ongoing assessments, develops individualized plans of care with the interdisciplinary team, implements and evaluates care, identifies learning needs, responds to emergencies, and contributes to unit operations and improvement activities.

Requirements

• Current RN license recognized by the State of Iowa Board of Nursing.

Responsibilities

• Maintain nursing-care standards and implement Medical Center, Nursing Services, and Iowa Code Chapter Six policies and procedures.
• Perform ongoing, systematic assessments and data collection, including environmental, self-care, education, and discharge-planning factors.
• Develop individualized, goal-directed, age-appropriate plans of care with the interdisciplinary team, addressing patients’ mental, physical, psychosocial, and cultural needs.
• Implement care consistently and continuously using established standards and evidence-based practices.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of care provided by the interdisciplinary care team in relation to patient needs and staff capabilities and qualifications.
• Assign nursing care team members.
• Identify patients’ and significant others’ learning needs and implement appropriate measures.
• Administer medications and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Respond efficiently to emergencies using established protocols.
• Participate in orientation of new personnel.
• Participate in developing and attaining unit and Nursing Services goals.
• Participate in developing general and unit-specific standards.
• Participate in developing and implementing performance-improvement activities.
• Participate in unit meetings and conferences to improve patient care.
• Communicate effectively, identify and resolve problems, and use lines of authority appropriately.
• Monitor vital signs, document patient conditions, and educate patients and families about medical conditions.
• Work with supervising physicians to assess and monitor patient needs and ensure care follows facility procedures.

Benefits

• $10,000 sign-on bonus (as written in the posting, the amount is displayed as “$10,0000”).
• Retirement - IPERS
• Education assistance
• Employee health and wellness
• PTO
• Free parking
• Health insurance
• Supplemental insurance
• 529 College Savings Plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed