Registered Nurse

Benefits : \n

• Competitive salary and benefits (insurance, 401k, paid sick and time off, etc.)\n
• New pay scale for Registered Nurses\n
• $7,500 Sign on Bonus\n
• $6,500 Retention Bonus\n
• Loan forgiveness eligibility\n\nRegistered nurses report directly to the nurse supervisor they work collaboratively with the health care team to provide holistic care to the acute or transitional mental health patient and their families.\n\nResponsibilities : \n\nInsures maintenance of the therapeutic environment through proper use of the Teaching-Family model of care and implementation of the treatment plan.\n\nMaintains a therapeutic milieu and a safe environment by continual assessment.\n\nEngages the patient in therapeutic communications (one-on-one).\n\nCompletes the bio-psychosocial physical assessment, develops an age specific and developmentally appropriate plan of care at admission.\n\nAssesses patient / family education and discharge needs, with the interdisciplinary team.\n\nDevelops and leads interdisciplinary care conferences in collaboration with the health care team.\n\nCommunicates plan of care to other members of the health care team.\n\nDocuments assessments, interventions and responses to care.\n\nUtilizes leadership skills through mentoring, preempting, teaching, delegating and coaching members of the health care team.\n\nDevelops, organizes and facilitates group sessions.\n\nUtilizes positive interpersonal skills, conflict management, problem solving and crisis management critical thinking to promote development of the health care team.\n\nParticipates in quality improvement processes.\n\nAttends regularly scheduled in-services to total 12 per year.\n\nResponsible for keeping all employment requirements current (i.e. TB, CPR, CPI, etc.).\n\nAttends mandatory nursing meetings.\n\nVerifies and interprets pathology reports and consults etc. and alerts the physician as to changes in the patient's condition, and activates the plan of care.\n\nCarries out physician orders regarding diet, medication and treatment.\n\nObtains physician orders and authorizes implementation of seclusion / restraints according to hospital policy.\n\nCritically evaluates the clinical status of patients using the nursing process.\n\nCan demonstrate, supervise, and assess competency for waived testing or for phlebotomy.\n\nDemonstrates knowledge and care of the mental health patient : \n
• Utilizes Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) techniques.\n
• Care of the patient related to the DSMV behavior diagnoses.\n
• Knowledge of all psychotropic medications.\n
• Provide education to patients / families based on their identified needs and limitations, such as, communication, interpersonal and social skills, as well as, the basic principles of physical health.\n
• Provide opportunities for patients and families to question, discuss and explore their feelings about prescribed therapies / interventions / diagnoses.\n
• Documents in progress notes accurate and detailed descriptions of patients' behaviors relative to treatment plan and diagnoses (Provide a sample).\n\nQualifications\n\nArkansas Licensed Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing.\n\nCurrent Arkansas Registered Nurse license.\n\nExperience with adolescents and children in a psychiatric setting preferred.\n\nLift and hold at least 50 pounds for one minute.\n\nRequires the strength and stamina to perform clinical duties.\n\nMust be physically capable to receive verbal and written directions. Must be physically capable of sitting and standing for several hours at a time.\n\nMust have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability. Ability to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.\n\nMust be able to maintain effective audio, visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating office equipment and other treatment equipment.\n\nMust be able to use a telephone to communicate verbally and a computer to communicate through written means, to review information and enter / retrieve data, to see and read characters on a computer screen, chart or other treatment items.\n\nMust be willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health.\n\nFlu shot is mandatory and required for all positions (subject to qualified exemptions).\n\nJob descriptions are not intended, nor should be construed, to be all-inclusive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.\n\nWhen an employee performs two or more different jobs, for which different straight time hourly rates are established, the employee will be paid during overtime hours as a rate not less than one and one-half time the hourly rate established for the type of work he or she is performing during the overtime hours.\n\nLevel One - Full Access : Ongoing regular access to PHI of all forms while the employee is on duty and performing within the scope of his or her job as defined by the employee's job description, and Policy and Procedure. "Such access must be for cause, consistent with job responsibilities and related to patients, claims, audits, reviews and other legitimate business purposes." (e.g. Physicians, nurses and other clinicians)\n\nEducation\nRequired\n
• Bachelors or better\n\nLicenses & Certifications\nRequired\n
• Registered Nurse\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nThis employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.