PRN Registered Nurse - CSU

Tri-County Behavioral Healthcare is looking for a PRN Registered Nurse to join our Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) team. The ideal candidate will exercise empathy and compassion as well as perform in a manner representative of the mission and ideals of Tri-County Behavioral Healthcare in all interactions with others. This position requires the ability for independent clinical decision making within the scope of practice and applicable rules and regulations.

This position also requires excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as superb interpersonal and collaboration abilities.

What you will do:

* Processes physician's orders for medications, labs, and EKGs.

* Provides comprehensive assessments of patients at the CSU.

* Prepares and maintains examination/treatment room.

* Administers medications and monitors the effects and side effects and treatment ordered by the physician.

* Completes documentation in compliance with standards of care and Tri-County Behavioral Healthcare policy in the patient's Electronic Health Record (EHR).

* Collaborates with other professional disciplines to ensure effective patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes. This may include risk assessments as needed and patient safety monitoring checks (related to staffing limitations).

* Provide medication education and compliance teaching to all patients receiving programming at the CSU.

* Performs venipunctures

* Administers IM injections as needed

* Safely de-escalate patients that are in crisis using learned SAMA techniques

* Provides supervision to Psychiatric Nursing Assistant (PNA) staff.

* Completes patient rounds as required and as needed to ensure client safety

* This position is considered "essential staff".

* This position is required to be available for 3 (12 hour) shifts per month, including one weekend shift (Saturday or Sunday), as well as one summer and one winter holiday per year in order to maintain PRN status.

Where you will work:

* This position will work in our Psychiatric Emergency Treatment Center (PETC). For more information on where you will work .

What you'll need:

* Active, unencumbered Registered Nursing license in the State of Texas;

* Graduate of an accredited nursing school;
Bachelor of Science (BSN) preferred;

* Minimum of 2 years of nursing experience;
Psychiatric nursing experience preferred.

* Applicant will need to pass physical agility, computer literacy, and typing tests.

* Applicant must be able to navigate an electronic health record (EHR) and demonstrate computer competency

* This position requires the ability for independent clinical decision making within the scope of practice and applicable rules and regulations.

* Applicants must have a valid Driver's License and be insurable through Tri-County Behavioral Healthcare.

Payscale:

$50 Hourly Rate - Plus Shift and Weekend Differential.

Location:

Conroe, Texas

Effective January 1, 2016, all Tri-County Behavioral Healthcare campuses are smoke free.

NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES

Tri-County is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all Federal and State laws pertaining to employment. Tri-County is committed to Affirmative Action and has an Affirmative Action Plan.

The Texas Health and Safety Code, Section 533.007, allows Tri-County to check conviction records on applicants. Tri-County completes background checks in accordance with Texas State Health and Safety Code, Chapters 250-253:
Criminal history check through the Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS), Employee Misconduct Registry (EMR), Nurse Aide Registry and for Medicaid and Medicare fraud. Tri-County will check the CARE System to determine if an applicant has a confirmed allegation of abuse, neglect or exploitation and will not hire any individual with a confirmed allegation.

The Texas Administrative Code, Title 25, Chapter 414, Subsection K, has established the following list of offenses that are an absolute bar to employment: criminal homicide, kidnapping and unlawful restraint, indecency with a child, continued sexual abuse of young child or children, sexual assault, aggravated assault, injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual,…