Psych Nurse Jobs in San Diego, CA

About The Position

Requirements

• Graduate of nursing school.
• 1 Year clinical experience (RNs with less than 12 months experience will complete the new grad requirements).
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Nice To Haves

• Psych Empath- CSU experience
• RNs with less than 12 months experience will complete the new grad requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.
• Utilize the nursing process and critical thinking to provide individualized, goal-directed patient care.
• Identify actual/potential problems for which the patient is at risk.
• Continuously evaluate interventions and care, and adjust the plan as patient and family needs change.
• Collaborate with patient, family, and other team members to develop a comprehensive plan of care.
• Prioritize demand for resources and collaborate with others to meet individualized patient needs.
• Act as preceptor/teacher in guiding other nurses on how to apply the nursing process with a particular unit population.
• Implement safe, therapeutic, and efficient care for patients with complex needs.
• Demonstrate accountability for achieving patient outcomes.
• Document per department/entity guidelines of care and policies and procedures.
• Delegate/assign and communicate expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team.
• Assess appropriateness of physician orders and to question physician when appropriate.
• Help coworkers improve performance, offers assistance and support, and provides positive feedback.
• Provides unit specific information to students, floats, travelers/registry personnel and documents appropriately.
• Provides incidental teaching to members of the team.
• Looks for and applies ways to improve work processes and systems.
• Offers and accepts constructive feedback/criticism.
• Seeks out opportunities to assist and support coworkers.
• Establish a therapeutic relationship with patient and family.
• Analyze social/cultural variables and adapt nursing interventions to meet diverse needs.
• Serve as a patient advocate.
• Provide age-appropriate patient education.
• Coordinate transfer and discharge planning and teaching in collaboration with other members of the health care team.
• Collaborate with other team members to identify, develop and/or revise patient education materials.
• Demonstrate flexibility to teaching based on assessment of learner's needs and the integration of adult learning principles.
• Perform safe nursing care for patients in more complex situations with some assistance and supervision.
• Coordinate patient care administered by other members of the care team.
• May assume the responsibility of relief charge nurse and may assist with preceptorship/professional development of new nurses and students.
• Use common equipment and medications safely in the practice setting and consults others when unfamiliar.
• Recognize inconsistencies in patient care and manages potential complications.
• Demonstrate consistent organization and prioritization of workload; confident management of emergency situations.
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives.
• Comply with all regulatory and accreditation standards.
• Demonstrate professional behavior through participation in unit activities and committees as appropriate.
• Teach skills as necessary.
• Coordinate patient care administered by other members of the nursing staff.
• Utilize a variety of teaching/coaching strategies to assist family through disease process/experience.
• Promote clinical effectiveness, efficient use of resources, and quality care in practice setting.
• Transfer knowledge and mentors others to improve clinical practice.
• Demonstrate complex problem solving and the use of critical thinking skills.

Benefits

• 401k
• 401k_matching
• health_insurance
• dental_insurance
• vision_insurance
• life_insurance
• disability_insurance
• paid_holidays
• tuition_reimbursement
• professional_development