Registered Nurse (RN) - Hampstead Hospital

Overview

$15,000 BONUS! -Full Time Night Shift (40 hrs. per week, every other weekend required)

Hampstead Hospital and Residential Treatment Facility is an accredited specialty hospital in the State of New Hampshire. We provide inpatient and residential psychiatric care that serves the acute psychiatric and substance use-related disorder needs of children, adolescents, and young adults.

The Lincoln Unit (Adolescent Services Unit) is a 23-bed inpatient unit that provides short-term stabilization for adolescents ages 12-16 with a variety of psychiatric and behavioral disorders including depression, anxiety, mood disorders, oppositional defiance disorder, PTSD, ADHD, psychosis, and neurodevelopmental disorders. These individuals are presenting with behaviors that may include suicidal ideation, self-injurious behavior, intent to harm others, severe emotional dysregulation, and substance use. Group programming is a daily focus for our patients during their stay and focuses on building skills that may be impaired due to existing mental health issues.

The Clinical Nurse is an engaged and credentialed member of the Professional Nursing Organization and is responsible for autonomous practice directed by the professional tenets of practitioner, leader / decision maker, scientist and transferor. The Clinical Nurse is responsible for utilizing the nursing process to provide evidence-based care and to continuously monitor and evaluate practice to ensure safe passage of patients that is in the best interest of populations served.

Responsibilities

• Practitioner
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, diagnose, identify outcomes, plan, implement and evaluate an individualized plan of care.
• Utilizes critical thinking and the nursing process to anticipate and recognize changes in patient status, taking action to modify the plan of care or to elevate to the care team as necessary.
• Practices in accordance with the ANA Code of Ethics to advocate for patients, uphold their autonomy in decision-making, ensure informed consent and assist patients in families in expressing self-determination.
• Actively seeks feedback and acts to improve performance.
• Engages in the governance of practice.
• Leader / Decision Maker
• Manages interpersonal relationships for self and with others.
• Mentors colleagues for the advancement of nursing practice and the profession.
• Assumes authority and accountability for the nursing care of patients while appropriately delegating elements of care to others members of the care delivery team in accordance with laws, regulations and policies and procedures.
• Prioritizes and organizes time to optimize patient outcomes.
• Scientist
• Actively seeks out the most current evidence and standards and applies and translates to daily practice.
• Role models a culture of inquiry, developing new knowledge by contributing to research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice at the local level.
• Transferor
• Communicates effectively in a variety of formats in all areas of practice.
• Actively partners with others to effect change that produces positive outcomes through the exchange of knowledge.
• Precepts the student nurse, nurse extern, nurse resident, experienced clinical nurse and other members of the healthcare team.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications

Required Licensure / Certifications