Registered Nurse (PRN / Pool)

Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities

Cooperates as a member of the patient / client care team to plan, coordinate, implement and evaluate the delivery of quality treatment according to standards.

Assists with quality assurance activities specific to United Methodist Children’s Home, Inc. to identify actual or potential problem areas and report as per department policy.

Demonstrates good interpersonal and communication skills to facilitate collaboration with personnel and other disciplines of treatment team.

Utilizes observation, interviews and physical assessment to determine client’s health status and comprehension level.

Utilizes advanced knowledge base and / or advance tools to obtain data not otherwise available by observation examination or history.

Establishes priority of needs / problems according to actual / potential threat to client.

Organizes and develops a goal-oriented health plan of care to reflect the physician’s orders and the priority of identified client needs and changes of such.

Collaborates with significant others and treatment team in assessing client care.

Reassesses client and priority of needs as condition changes to intervene appropriately.

May perform face to face assessments within one hour of restraint and / or seclusion

Identifies crisis situations pertaining to client’s physical and / or psychological needs.

When appropriate, collaborates with Medical Director and / or Program Director to assess and identify treatment to prevent complications and life-threatening situation.

When needed, makes appropriate referrals for hospital physical and / or psychiatric in-patient treatment.

Coordinates with managed care / insurance companies if necessary.

Integrates current nursing health care knowledge with competency in psychomotor skills to make appropriate decisions and acts to render treatment.

Implements treatment in an organized, yet humanistic manner, preventing complications and life-threatening situations.

Implements treatment in collaboration with client, significant others and treatment team members to coordinate activities of other disciplines involved in client’s treatment.

Attempts to determine the cause of significant differences in expected and actual responses of clients, in order to appropriately plan interventions.

Anticipates and prioritizes nursing care delivered under changing conditions in order to appropriately respond to life threatening situations.

Thoroughly documents all pertinent findings from admission assessment to discharge planning process to create / add to client’s permanent record within the time frame specified and for communication with other disciplines.

Records identified problems and needs as a basis for developing initial plan of treatment.

Documents nursing interventions based on reassessment and / or evaluation findings in order to evidence appropriate action.

Documents significant incidents, facts or observations accurately and promptly through appropriate means as per Agency policy and procedure.

Weekly staff meetings with Program Director, Medical Director and / or Direct Care Staff.

Responsibility is assumed for continuing educational and professional development and contributions are made to the professional growth of others. Continuing education, etc. will be documented and copies provided to the personnel department to be kept in employee’s record.

Qualifications

Arkansas Licensed Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing.

Experience with adolescents and children in a psychiatric setting preferred.

Must be physically capable of performing the proper and necessary CPI holds.

Requires the ability to sit and stand for long periods of time and intermittently walk, stand, stoop, kneel, crouch and reach with hands and arms.

Requires the strength and stamina to perform clinical duties.

Must be physically able to lift 50 pounds and hold for one minute.

Must be physically capable to receive verbal and written directions. Must be physically capable of sitting and standing for several hours at a time.

Must have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability. Ability to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.

Must 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.

Must 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.

Must be willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health.

Flu shot is mandatory and required for all positions (subject to qualified exemptions).

Job 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.

When 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.