Registered Nurse - Psychiatric Intervention Prevention Unit - Nights

Position Summary

The Registered Nurse is a member of the interdisciplinary team working in collaboration with the Physician. The RN utilizes the nursing care process consistent with their license and/or certification, including initiation of culturally competent continuum of care in inpatient, outpatient, and community settings. The RN is responsible for overseeing coordination of the interdisciplinary plan of care and ensuring consistency with the medical treatment plan.

The patient care process includes the nursing process steps:
Assessment, Planning, Intervention, Evaluation.

• Assessment: an orderly process consisting of identifying, gathering, and organizing subjective and objective data pertaining to the patient/family/significant other, including physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural aspects.
• Planning: an organized step that identifies actual or potential problems and desired outcomes (goals) resulting in a documented plan of care, providing direction for the patient/family/significant other and interdisciplinary team.
• Intervention: specific interventions or orders implemented consistently with the plan of care and medical treatment plan.
• Evaluation: determining the effectiveness of interventions in achieving the plan of care, concluding on the achievement or lack thereof, and initiating reassessment and revisions to problems, goals, plan of care, and interventions.
• Patients have problems identified and prioritized relative to biophysical, psychological, environmental, self‑care, educational, and social status.
• Goals are identified consistently with the problem to provide direction for patient care and health promotion.
• Education is consistent with the identified problem and associated goals and is seen as critical to creating an environment that promotes patient empowerment.

The RN may be required to perform limited laboratory services including patient identification and preparation for specimen collection, processing samples for testing, performing required quality control testing, instrument maintenance and function checks, monitoring, recording, and reporting test results to clinicians (including critical values), and maintaining competency/certification of these tasks.

• Emergency Room (City)
  • 2 years medical/surgical and/or emergency room experience preferred.
  • ACLS required within 6 months of hire or transfer.
  • Minimum 8 contact hours of education every year in basic trauma assessment, intervention, and stabilization.
  • Minimum 8 contact hours of education every year for basic stroke assessment, intervention, and NIHSS to be completed within 6 months of hire, continuously maintained thereafter.
  • PALS or ENPC attained within 12 months of hire or transfer.
  • Current staff required to obtain CPI by 6/30/24; new hires or transfers: CPI required within 6 months of hire and continuously maintained thereafter.
• Trauma Bay
  • Trauma experience required; 2 years preferred.
  • ACLS, PALS & ATCN at time of hire.
• Harmony Trauma/ICU
  • 2 years medical/surgical experience preferred; critical care experience preferred.
  • ACLS required at time of hire.
  • ATCN required within 3 years from date of hire or transfer.
• Intensive Care Unit (ICU/CTICU)
  • 2 years medical/surgical experience preferred; critical care experience preferred.
  • ACLS required within 6 months from date of hire or transfer.
  • CCRN preferred.
• Cardiovascular ICU (CVU)
  • 2 years critical care experience preferred.
  • ACLS required within 6 months from date of hire or transfer.
  • CCRN preferred.
• Heart and Vascular Unit (HVU)
  • 2 years telemetry experience preferred.
  • ACLS required within 6 months of hire or transfer.
• Harbor (PCU)
  • 2 years telemetry experience preferred.
  • ACLS required within 6 months of hire or transfer.
• Medical/Surgical Units (various locations)
  • Medical/surgical experience preferred.
  • ACLS required within 1 year of hire or transfer (or within 6 months for some units).
• Operating Room
  • Medical/surgical and operating room experience preferred.
  • All new OR team members must scrub and/or learn to scrub during orientation within six months (effective 1/1/25).
  • ACLS required by 12/31/24 for all RNs in the City OR.
  • CNOR preferred.
• PA…