POSITION SUMMARY:

Provides nursing care through physical and mental assessments, laboratory testing, treatment plans and therapeutic treatments. Knowledgeable of a wide range of disorders; cognitive, emotional, developmental, social and behavioral. Performs crisis intervention. Participates in the department's performance improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrates support for the Philosophy of the Nursing Department by adhering to policies, procedures and established standards of nursing practice.
• Health teaching to residents and their families.
• Executes procedures consistent with resident care and with the facilities Nursing Department Standard, Policy and Procedure
• Manual.
• Utilizes the nursing process to plan and provide resident care and to evaluate results of these interventions.
• Interacts appropriately with staff, physicians and other departments in a collegial relationship in order that resident and family needs are met.
• Utilizes effective communication skills in interpersonal relationships with resident, families and other members of the health care team.
• Documents and verbally communicates in a clear, concise effective format.
• Documents clearly and completely the various aspects of the nursing process on appropriate forms within required timeframes
• Makes appropriate decisions with information received from assessments
• Identifies and defines nursing diagnosis/nursing problems from assessment data.
• Demonstrates knowledge and applications of professional standards of care and nursing process in daily practice.
• Reviews physician orders on assigned residents prior to care and requests physician's orders when appropriate to plan of resident care.
• Initiates a resident/patient care plan (interim admission) Treatment plan (MTP) and full care plan on each assigned admission based on nursing assessment and identification of nursing problems within unit specific guidelines.
• Utilizes accepted techniques of infection control.

• Graduate of approved School of Nursing
• Current license to practice nursing in the State of Connecticut, Current state Registered Nurse Licensure
• A minimum of (1) year experience in a behavioral health care setting.
• Completion of mandatory in-service provided by the facility.
• Current BCLS certification, ACLS preferred
• Ability to communicate in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Additional languages preferred.
• Basic computer knowledge.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of a wide range of psychosocial, cognitive and/or developmental disorders.
• Experience in gerontological nursing preferred.
• BS in nursing or health-related field preferred or actively pursuing
• Completion of mandatory in-service provided by the facility.