RN, Peace Hospital, Day and Night Shift Opportunities, $15,000 Sign-On Bonus

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Peace - Louisville

Address: 2020 Newburg Rd. Louisville, KY 40205

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Job Description

Summary:

UofL Health is looking for dynamic RNs to work at our inpatient behavioral health facility, Peace Hospital, with child, adolescent, or adult patient populations. If you are an experienced psychiatric nurse, we have float opportunities available too! We are offering a $15,000 sign on bonus for experienced RNs for our child, adolescent, and youth units.

UofL Health – Peace Hospital is a private, not-for-profit behavioral health care hospital. Founded in 1951 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, the 363 licensed bed (261 operating) hospital is one of the largest psychiatric facilities in the nation providing care for children, adolescents and adults. Our Kosair for Kids Children’s Peace Center is the largest and most comprehensive private provider of youth inpatient behavioral health services in the country.

Peace operates a full continuum of behavioral health and substance use services for patients. Specialty programs for children and adolescents who have complex treatment needs, such as intellectual or developmental disabilities, forensic issues for females and/or co-occurring substance use issues are also offered.

• Services for patients with emotional/behavioral, psychiatric disorders and/or substance use disorders
• Specialized units for children/adolescents with intellectual and development disabilities
• Treatment for co-occurring disorders with integrated treatment
• Treatment alternatives such as partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs for children, adolescents and adults

The Registered Nurse (Hospital-Based) is a competent registered nurse that will deliver nursing care to patients of varying age groups by utilizing the nursing process and nursing practice standards.

The Registered Nurse (Hospital-Based) uses:

• Nursing Practice Competencies to intervene to achieve safe, optimal patient and family centered care health outcomes;
• Leadership Competencies to coordinate patient care and communicate with the care team;
• Professional Profile Competencies to develop professionally as a life‑long learner, and Practice Outcomes Competencies to evaluate care based on evidence, the UofL Health quality model, and patient safety goals.

The Registered Nurse (Hospital-Based) demonstrates competency caring for complex patients and participates on the care team to improve the quality of care in the clinical area.

• Under the supervision of a clinical nurse manager, this position will provide nursing care to patients, and conduct systematic, continuous and comprehensive assessments of patient health status from admission or encounter to discharge across the care continuum to ensure patient safety, collaborating with the healthcare team, patient and family; care addresses all aspects of the individual and family, including age, gender, spiritual, cultural, physical, psychosocial and patient preferences and proactively uses safety surveillance to prevent adverse outcomes.
• Independently administers medications per licensure authority, assesses and reassesses the effects of these medications, and documents administration in a timely manner per policies, procedures and regulatory requirements; consistently adheres to patient safety guidelines regarding all aspects of medication administration.
• In collaboration with patient and family, plans care using current scientific knowledge, theory, and care standards within the nursing interventions and outcomes framework and national patient safety goals; constructs individualized, age‑specific plans for optimal patient and family outcomes, as appropriate to the practice setting; incorporates data from the multi‑disciplinary care team into the plan of care to assure continuity and appropriate patient teaching.
• In collaboration with patient and family, identifies and prioritizes patient problems based on subjective and objective assessment data, patient safety considerations, patient and family goals and preferences, and nursing interventions and the medical plan of care; implements nursing care interventions to meet…