Registered Nurse, full-time night shift
Sacramento Behavioral Healthcare Hospital, United States
Job Description
The Registered Nurse’s (RN) top priority is to deliver high quality safe care to psychiatric patients in an acute facility. The RN provides direct care and coordinates the care provided by other nursing personnel. The Registered Nurse plans and coordinates each patient’s multidisciplinary treatment plan (MDTP). The RN embraces Sacramento Behavioral Healthcare mission, vision and value statements and upholds all the hospital policies. The RN understands the regulations that govern hospital services and provides clear direction to the team to meet all regulation requirements.
Requirements
Education/Licensure
- Current California RN License
- Current CPR certification
- Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) obtained within 60 days of hire
- Knowledge and experience of psychiatric diagnosis and associated risks, medications, biological systems, nursing process, treatment planning, and leadership. New RN graduates may meet these requirements if they have completed a psychiatric rotation as part of nursing school or have psychiatric experience in another role.
Skills and Competencies:
The RN will pass initial and annual competency evaluations including (but not limited to): suicide prevention, de-escalation interventions, medication knowledge, code blue/emergency interventions, infection prevention, and appropriate use of seclusion and manual holds.
The RN will demonstrate leadership skills in applying knowledge and competency in daily nursing practice.
Maintain a working knowledge of commonly used policies, awareness of policy changes and know where to find additional polices and needed information.
Physical Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, this position is frequently required to do the following:
- Stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, and stand for sustained period of time.
- Walk, push, pull, lift, carry objects from a lower to higher position or horizontally from position to position or otherwise move objects.
- Feel sizes, shapes, temperatures, and textures by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips.
- Express or exchange ideas orally and potentially loudly, accurately, or quickly.
- Perceive the nature of sound with no less than a 40 dB loss @ 1000 Hz and 2000 Hz with or without correction.
- Exert up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently.
- Able to provide manual holds for patients who are physically acting out and are potentially dangerous (at times this occurs on the floor.)
- Minimum standard of visual acuity with or without correction.
- While worker may possibly be subjected to temperature changes, the worker is generally not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions as the work is predominantly inside.
Job Description Attestation
Employee Statement of Understanding, Confidentiality, and Compliance
I agree to uphold the Missions, Vision, and Values:
I understand that this document is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. The statements in this document are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
Sacramento Behavioral Healthcare Hospital is committed to protecting the confidentiality of information concerning patients, employees, and facility operations. Furthermore, We are committed to protecting the interests of our patients, community, and organization by ensuring that we consistently provide the highest quality healthcare services at the most affordable cost.
I agree that, as an employee of Sacramento Behavioral Healthcare Hospital, I have a legal and moral responsibility to protect the confidentiality of privileged information obtained by me through the delivery of patient care and/or daily facility operations, and I agree not to share or release personal health information or other confidential information to anyone who does not have a right or need to know.
I understand that the improper communication of confidential information (i.e., the release, possession, copying, use, reading or discussion of such information inappropriately or without proper authority) is strictly prohibited and considered grounds for disciplinary actions up to and including termination of employment.
Confidential information includes facts, anecdotes, data, perceptions and other knowledge of patients, employees, physicians, patient care providers and other organizational business obtained in the work environment. This includes, but is not limited to, information learned from verbal, written, computerized, faxed, emailed, audio or videotaped, observed, or other means.
I understand my responsibility to follow the Hos