What You Will Do

To provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.

Required Qualifications

• Graduate of nursing school.
• 1 Year Acute Psychiatric RN experience
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) - Various-Employee provides certificate -REQUIRED
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Essential Functions

• Clinical advancement
• Uses systematic planning, appropriate methods and timely exchange of information with multidisciplinary team and patient/family to coordinate care.
• Demonstrates ability to focus on and manage multiple patient needs and aspects of care.
• Actively communicates with care team to plan patient care.
• Utilizes available resources to problem-solve and determine most effective approach to action.
• Clinical judgment and decision making
• Utilizes the nursing process and a critical thinking approach to provide patient care that incorporates the mind, body and spirit; is individualized, goal directed, and consistent with current standards of safety.
• Identifies actual/potential problems for which the patient is at risk.
• Continuously evaluates interventions and care, and adjusts the plan as patient and family needs change.
• Identifies need for referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation.
• Collaborates with patient, family and other team members to develop a comprehensive plan of care.
• Prioritizes demand for resources and collaborates with others to meet individualized patient needs.
• Acts as preceptor/teacher in guiding other nurses on how to apply the nursing process with a particular unit population.
• Makes appropriate referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation.
• Implements safe, therapeutic and efficient care for patients with complex needs due to multi-system disease and/or complications of treatment.
• Demonstrates accountability for achieving patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates an ability to quickly recognize a patient diagnosis even though presenting symptoms or situations may be dissimilar.
• Documents per department/entity guidelines of care and policies and procedures.
• Comprehensive; representing detailed, concise picture of patient's care.
• Serves as a resource for other staff in managing unit specific documentation issues.
• Charting reflects a critical thinking/problem oriented approach to patient issues.
• Clinical leadership
• Delegates/assigns and communicates expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team.
• Knowledgeable about what can and cannot be delegated to each different health care team member.
• Responsible for delegation and follows through to ensure delegated task is complete.
• Before delegating, analyzes each situation, determines and consistently applies levels of supervision needed (unsupervised, initial direction and periodic inspection, continuous supervision, or should not be delegated).
• Assesses appropriateness of physician orders and to question physician when appropriate.
• Helps coworkers improve performance.
• Offers assistance and support to coworkers.
• Provides positive feedback to others.
• Provides unit specific information to students, floats, travelers/registry personnel and documents appropriately.
• Provides incidental teaching to members of the team.
• Looks for and applies ways to improve work processes and systems.
• Offers and accepts constructive feedback/criticism in a non-judgmental, positive and confidential manner.
• Seeks out opportunities to assist and support coworkers.
• Nurse-patient/family relationship
• Establishes a therapeutic relationship with patient and family.
• Anticipates problems to establishing/maintaining a therapeutic relationship with a specific patient and takes actions to enhance quality of nurse/patient/family interaction (problems may include: spiritual, cultural, language or other communication barriers; those imposed by nature of illness or health issue).
• Analyzes social/cultural variables and adapts nursing interventions to meet diverse needs.
• Serves as a patient advocate through actions such as: removing obstacles, identifying and supporting appropriate needs and wants; interpreting for patient to physician and visa/versa.
• Provides age appropriate patient education that facilitates recovery, self-care, end-of-life care and health maintenance, health promotion, and wellness.
• Coordinates transfer and discharge planning and teaching in collaboration with other members of the health care team.
• Collaborates with other team members to identify, develop and/or revise patient education materials.
• Demonstrates flexibility to teaching based on assessment of learner's needs and the integration of adult learning principles.