RNWEO

Overview

Registered nurses report directly to the nurse supervisor they work collaboratively with the health care team to provide holistic care to the acute or transitional mental health patient and their families.

• Ensure maintenance of the therapeutic environment through the proper use of the Teaching-Family model of care and implementation of the treatment plan.
• Maintain a therapeutic milieu and a safe environment by continual assessment.
• Engage the patient in therapeutic communications (one-on-one).
• Complete the bio-psychosocial physical assessment and develop an age-specific and developmentally appropriate plan of care at admission.
• Assess patient/family education and discharge needs with the interdisciplinary team.
• Develop and lead interdisciplinary care conferences in collaboration with the health care team.
• Communicate plan of care to other members of the health care team.
• Document assessments, interventions and responses to care.
• Utilize leadership skills through mentoring, precepting, teaching, delegating and coaching members of the health care team.
• Develop, organize and facilitate group sessions.
• Utilize positive interpersonal skills, conflict management, problem solving and crisis management to promote development of the health care team.
• Participate in quality improvement processes.
• Attend regularly scheduled in-services totaling 12 per year.
• Maintain current employment requirements (e.g., TB, CPR, CPI, etc.).
• Attend mandatory nursing meetings.
• Verify and interpret pathology reports and consults, alert the physician to changes in the patient’s condition, and activate the plan of care.
• Carry out physician orders regarding diet, medication and treatment.
• Obtain physician orders and authorize implementation of seclusion/restraints according to hospital policy.
• Critically evaluate the clinical status of patients using the nursing process.
• Demonstrate, supervise, and assess competency for waived testing or phlebotomy.
• Demonstrates Knowledge And Care Of The Mental Health Patient

• Utilize Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) techniques.
• Care of the patient related to DSMV behavior diagnoses.
• Knowledge of all psychotropic medications.
• Provide education to patients/families based on identified needs and limitations, such as communication, interpersonal and social skills, and the basic principles of physical health.
• Provide opportunities for patients and families to question, discuss and explore their feelings about prescribed therapies/interventions/diagnoses.
• Document in progress notes accurate and detailed descriptions of patients’ behaviors relative to treatment plan and diagnoses.

• Arkansas Licensed Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing.
• Current Arkansas Registered Nurse license.
• Experience with adolescents and children in a psychiatric setting preferred.
• Lift and hold at least 50 pounds for one minute.
• Requires the strength and stamina to perform clinical duties.
• Must be physically capable to receive verbal and written directions and to sit and stand for several hours at a time.
• Must have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability; ability to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.
• Must be able to maintain effective audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for observations, communication, reading and writing, and operating equipment.
• Must be able to use a telephone and computer to communicate, review information, enter/retrieve data, and read characters on screens.
• Must be willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health.
• Flu shot is mandatory and required for all positions (subject to qualified exemptions).

Job descriptions are not intended to be all-inclusive lists of responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions. Management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties as necessary.

Level One - Full Access: Ongoing regular access to PHI of all forms while on duty and performing within the scope of the job as defined by the job description and Policy and Procedure. Access must be for cause, consistent with job responsibilities and related to patients, claims, audits, reviews and other legitimate business purposes (e.g., Physicians, nurses and other clinicians).