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About The Position

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
• Eligible for or currently licensed as a Registered Professional Nurse in Pennsylvania.
• CPR certification required.
• Experience applying customer service behaviors and communication skills required.
• Evidence of participation in educational programs to maintain current knowledge and clinical skills.
• For the behavioral health inpatient role, the posting lists restraint, de-escalation, and group therapy competencies or training/renewals among the role-specific expectations.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred.
• Previous nursing experience in the specialty area preferred.
• Certification in the specialty preferred.
• PMH-BC preferred for Behavioral Health Services, inpatient and outpatient.

Responsibilities

• Implement, direct, and coordinate patient care through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Recognize and address physical and psychosocial changes specific to the age and population served.
• Demonstrate safe medication practices, administer medications as prescribed, and accurately transcribe physician orders.
• Complete chart checks to ensure no orders are missed.
• Use therapeutic communication and assess patients’ education needs, using available education resources.
• Attend at least 50% of staff or committee meetings and area in-services.
• Demonstrate leadership through the nursing process and supervision while remaining accountable for treatment and patient outcomes.
• Serve as a resource for patient care, the specialty area, staff orientation, and teaching.
• Analyze assessment data, identify priority problems, and document plans of care for patients and their families or significant others.
• Use problem-solving skills to plan care and recognize changes in patient condition, responding appropriately.
• Complete and document discharge assessments against plan-of-care goals.
• Initiate and maintain intravenous therapy according to IV standards.
• Respond appropriately to emergency situations, including behavioral health emergencies, mock emergencies, medical emergencies, and rapid response team events.
• Use proper body mechanics and safely position, transfer, and transport patients.
• Function as a virtual nurse when assigned, including admissions, discharges, education, documentation through a virtual platform, and collaboration with bedside nursing staff.
• Apply physical and mechanical restraints and complete RN face-to-face assessments, or complete the restraint competency for the behavioral health unit.
• Use least-restrictive alternatives to restraints and demonstrate de-escalation techniques.
• Facilitate group therapy and individual support, and provide individual and group psychoeducation to patients.
• Follow responsibilities for assessing and reporting physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and neglect across populations.
• Understand unit-level leadership roles and identify the Manager on Call.
• Perform CIWA, AIMS, DAST/AUDIT, and suicide risk assessments.
• Perform accurate physical and psychosocial assessments and participate in developing and reviewing patient safety plans.
• Follow the level-of-care policy, including the role and handoff process for every 15-minute safety checks.
• Demonstrate knowledge of growth and development across the lifespan and provide appropriate age-specific assessment and treatment.
• Promote patient, visitor, and staff safety by following regulations, reporting actual and potential errors and hazards, supporting error reduction and standardized processes, and participating in safety education and root-cause analyses as required.
• Maintain established policies and procedures, objectives, quality assessment, safety, environmental, and infection-control standards.

Benefits

• Flexible self-scheduling
• Eligible for shift and weekend differential
• Educational support for nursing certifications
• Mentorship from a dedicated Nursing Educator, Clinical Managers, and a Licensed Professional Counselor leader
• Nursing leadership pathways
• Preceptorships
• Graduate nurse residency program