Opening Date: January 4, 2024
Closing Date: February 29, 2024
Job Class Code: 4134
Grade: 20
Salary: $34.63 - $42.08/hr (Salary is inclusive of stipends)
The starting salary is based on education and experience. Starting salary for promotional candidates will follow contractual requirements.
Additional shift differential $3.00/hour while working 2nd shift hours
Additional shift differential $4.50/hour while working 3rd shift hours
Additional weekend differential $2.10/hour while working weekend hours
In addition, the selected candidate may qualify for a $200/month nursing student loan reimbursement.
A Typical Day Includes:
As our newest Hospital Nurse II, you will oversee and provide psychiatric nursing care at Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center (DDPC). Supervision may be exercised over paraprofessional staff or assigned as a unit group leader. You will apply proper nursing principles, practices, and techniques in the care and custody of hospital patients who are emotionally, mentally, and/or physically ill.
These positions require a highly-motivated individual who can adapt quickly in a fast-paced, demanding work situation. You must demonstrate a high level of critical-thinking skills that allow you to process a large amount of information, discern the overall scope of a situation, and make sound decisions based on the information, experience, and knowledge of systems and your scope of practice.
You must demonstrate good communication skills, exceptional attention to detail, and be able to articulate and employ the Mission, Vision, and Values of DDPC with our staff as well as with community providers.
To be successful you must be able to:
- Plan and oversee work on the unit including psychiatric nursing care in accordance with nursing practices.
- Administer medications and treatment to ensure patients receive proper medication and treatment in a timely manner.
- Write patient progress reports to maintain patient medical records and document unusual behavior.
- Assess emergency situations and take appropriate action to overcome and resolve patient issues.
- Intervene therapeutically when patient exhibits signs of behavioral escalation to overcome the situation.
- Assess patient's health status, plan care, or make appropriate referrals to ensure patient needs are met.
- Recommend changes to patient treatment plans, if applicable.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
A Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing or related field -OR- graduation from an accredited school of nursing plus one (1) year of professional nursing experience.
A license as a Registered Nurse as issued by the Maine State Board of Nursing.
APPLICATION INFORMATION:
For additional information about this position please contact Jennifer Iverson, Assistant Director of Nursing at 207-561-5425 or jennifer.iverson@maine.gov.
To apply, please upload a resume and cover letter. To request a paper application, please contact Theresa Peppard at theresa.m.peppard@maine.gov.
