Registered Nurse; RN - PRN

Overview

Rogers Behavioral Health in Denver is excited to announce an opening for a PRN RN in our PHP/IOP - Outpatient Clinic.

PRN – as needed coverage when clinic is open (M‑F). No set hours or consistent days.

Complete initial assessments and documentation as required.

• Collect, record, and analyze pertinent data for admission within prescribed timeframe.
• Assess patient strengths and limitations that can be addressed to reach health goals.
• Consider cultural, spiritual, and ethnic factors that may impact the patient's course of treatment.
• Determine patient needs to be addressed at discharge.
• Document medical/physical status.
• Record history of medication compliance, reactions, and current schedule.
• Gather age‑specific data regarding the patient's individual needs.
• Observe and document the patient's interaction with family and friends as it is pertinent to treatment.
• Obtain assessment data from support systems, when appropriate, regarding the patient's history and individual needs.
• Explain patients’ rights so they can understand and obtain appropriate signatures.
• Provide the patient with information and obtain signature on necessary consents.
• Act as a patient advocate, using knowledge of patient rights and responsibilities, and protecting patient privacy and confidentiality.
• Assist in patient orientation process.
• Know and employ hospital policies and procedures regarding unit safety, including gown/contraband search on admission, and carry out the process respectfully.
• Remain sensitive to individual patient/family stressors upon admission while providing pertinent unit information.
• Participate in planning and modifying the patient’s plan of care.
• Evaluate data obtained by others by reviewing the patient’s treatment plan and multidisciplinary assessment for assigned patients.
• Participate in care conferences and represent the nursing care component of the treatment plan to others at staffings.
• Develop and interpret plan of care with the patient/family, updating it as indicated.
• Write clear, concise, and obtainable treatment goals on the treatment plan for each problem.
• Review the treatment plan as goals are achieved, changed, or updated.
• Review current lab data and follow up with the doctor.
• Evaluate potential for falls and initiate fall precautions, as indicated.
• Identify potential for self‑abuse, suicidality and/or assaultive behavior.
• Develop age‑appropriate interventions for the patient’s plan of care.
• Assess changes in patient status and document interventions accordingly.
• Demonstrate safe and correct medication administration: right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, and right route.
• Maintain current knowledge of the medication’s purpose and effects for each patient, as demonstrated by correct documentation of medication and observations of responses.
• Accurately transcribe and implement physician medication orders.
• Maintain continual awareness of monitoring expected and unexpected medication reactions, including adverse drug reactions, drug/drug or drug/food interactions.
• Regularly conduct and document patient education about medications.
• Maintain current knowledge about new pharmacologic products, including new medications or medications with new therapeutic actions.
• Use appropriate de‑escalation techniques: quiet room, locked seclusion, restraints.
• Re‑evaluate safety level.
• Identify alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
• Identify extrapyramidal side‑effects/neuroleptic malignant syndrome signs.
• Identify significant cardiac and/or respiratory symptoms requiring immediate medical intervention.
• Implement age‑appropriate teaching interventions to meet educational needs.
• Document educational interventions in the patient record and treatment plan.
• Organize patient care activities and interventions according to patient priorities, preferences, unit needs, and time constraints.
• Implement patient care based on established care plans, hospital policies and procedures, and unit standards of care, incorporating the patient’s age‑specific and cultural needs.
• Ensure admissions, transfers, and other related patient care activities comply with EMTALA and associated regulatory requirements when required…