REGISTERED NURSE, RN - ADOLESCENT INPATIENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

Job description

Job Summary/Overall Objectives The RN assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the area of all assigned psychiatric patients. The RN coordinates, directs and participates as an effective interdisciplinary team member. Essential Job Functions: Competency and Experience [Knowledge, Skills and Abilities] - Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending education workshops, review professional publications, establish personal networks, and participate in professional societies. - Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following system/hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations. - Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations. - Document patient care services by charting in patient and department records. - Maintain continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irre...