Provide support to patients with mental health issues.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for monitoring and treatment of patients.
- Conducted chart audits and administered medication per treatment protocol
- Assisted with patient intake, including insurance authorization, medical assessment, and notification of providers.
- Assisted in the behavioral management of patients, which included verbal redirection and active listening.
- Administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with approved nursing techniques.
- Implements crisis intervention measures when indicated to escalate and control aggressive patients.
- Prepares equipment and aids physicians during the treatment and examinations of patients.
- Functions as a role model to reinforce the development of adaptive behaviors.
- Directs therapeutic milieu and provides supportive individual, group, and family therapy.
- Utilizes psychotherapeutic intervention to assist patients in regaining or improving their nervous coping abilities and prevent further disability.
- Utilizes activities of daily living in a goal-oriented way to foster adequate self-care and physical and mental well-being.
- Provides appropriate level of patient education to improve patients' level of understanding regarding illness, treatments, patient rights and responsibilities, and acquisition of adaptive coping behaviors.
- Maximizes the security and safety of units. Provides special attention/monitoring of those patients at risk for suicidal attempts or elopements.
- Takes temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and other vital signs to detect deviations from normal and assess the patient's condition.
- May rotate among various clinical services of the institution.
Requirements:
- Hospital-psychiatric settings experience a minimum of 1 year
- RN current/active license
- CPR
- CPI
Compensation-Rewards: starting at $32.00 plus a competitive shift differential full-time- part-time staff.
Starting at $34.00 plus a competitive shift differential per diem, staff
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