Psychiatric Registered Nurse

Job Description

Responsibilities/ Job Duties:

• Assesses and monitors child and adolescent patients' daily functioning and assist in mental health symptom management
• Demonstrates purposeful, informed, results-oriented critical thinking, resulting in safe, quality care and good nursing judgment
• Monitors own level of expertise continuously using ongoing self-assessments
• Collaborates with the team, seeks timely advice, and gives and always accepts feedback to ensure safe patient care.
• Effectively uses therapeutic approaches to manage milieus with a focus on reducing the use of restraint and seclusion when possible.
• Plans and facilitates nursing groups with patients when scheduled during shift
• Responsible for nursing assessment upon admission and the necessary discharge planning required in the hospital program.
• Tracks and communicates pertinent medical and psychiatric information both verbally and through written documentation in EHR. Documents patient assessment findings, behavioral and psychosocial responses to nursing interventions, and progress towards problem resolution.
• Administers medications in an accurate manner consistent with policy and good nursing practice including verifying allergies and/or contraindications and monitoring for side effects. Educates patients and families about medications
• Performs appropriate interventions as ordered by physician in an accurate and timely manner including needed testing such as lab draws, EKG, UDS, Genesight, and HcG testing. Documents results and provides safe handoffs to providers about the results
• Knowledgeable of and performs safe infection control practices including good hand hygiene, standard precautions, cleaning equipment and the environment, reporting and managing of suspected infectious/contagious diseases, and teaching patients' practices such as washing their hands and covering their cough.
• Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to the patient's developmental age and to the patient's and family's diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity, and rights.
• Maintains confidentiality in matters related to patients and families.
• Maintains current competency in child and adolescent psychiatric/mental health nursing including the safe use of restraints and seclusion and effective de-escalation of patients using collaborative problem solving, therapeutic self, relationship-based care, and trauma informed practice
• Ability to intervene in pre-crisis or crisis situations by utilizing de-escalation techniques, limit setting, and the use of least restrictive interventions
• Knowledgeable of the Joint Commission standards for restraint/seclusion use and documentation requirements.
• Leads and delegates tasks to Psychiatric Technicians that are within their scope of practice

Minimum Education and Experience Qualification Requirements:

• Graduate of an accredited nursing school with a Nursing Degree. BSN preferred. Current licensure as an RN with the Minnesota State Board of Nursing is required.
• Current licensure in state of Minnesota required
• Evidence of 1 year of psychiatric/mental health nursing experience within the past two years preferred

Schedule/ Shift:

• 8 scheduled shift in 2 week pay period
• 7am-3:30pm and 3:30-11pm will rotate in these scheduled shifts
• Weekend rotation (one weekend day shift/ month and one weekend evening shift / month)

Benefits:

• Paid Sick Leave (Medix provides paid sick leave according to state and local sick leave ordinances)

• Health Benefits / Dental / Vision (Medix Offers 6 different health plans: 3 Major Medical Plans, 2 Fixed Indemnity Plans (Standard and Preferred), and 1 Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) Plan. Eligibility for health benefits is based on verifying that an average of 30 hours per week during the first 4 weeks of the work assignment has been met. If you meet eligibility requirements and take action to enroll, you will be covered no earlier than 60 days into your assignment, depending on plan selection(s).)

• 401k (eligible on the first 401k open enrollment date following 6 consecutive months on assignment. 401k Open Enrollment dates are 1/1, 4/1, 7/1, and 10/1)

• Short Term Disability Insurance

• Term Life Insurance Plan