Job Description: Behavioral Health Registered Nurse
The Behavioral Health Registered Nurse is specially trained to monitor and utilize therapeutic equipment necessary to provide specialized nursing care to patients with behavioral and/or mental disorders.
Responsibilities include:
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement a plan of care for a specific group of assigned patients, ensuring the coordination of care between other disciplines, physicians, and support staff.
- Performs professional nursing duties that incorporate the psychosocial, psychomotor, and age-appropriate cognitive skills of the patient/family/significant other to assess, plan, intervene, and advocate for the patient on an ongoing basis throughout the continuum of care.
- Reevaluates patient response and outcomes, effectiveness of the plan of care, and readiness for discharge and revises the plan or makes referrals as necessary.
- Acts as a role model and mentor to a variety of new graduate nurses, orientees, and support staff.
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