About This Role
This inpatient Psychiatric Nurse 2 position provides professional nursing care to individuals with developmental delays, developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, or social, emotional, and/or behavioral disorders in an institutional setting. The role involves assessing patient needs, preparing care plans, administering medications, and participating in a multidisciplinary team.
Responsibilities
- Identify patient health care needs utilizing physical and behavioral professional nursing assessment skills
- Make comprehensive clinical observations and evaluations of health needs, including subtle abnormalities and changes in condition
- Record and report indicative signs and symptoms of physical and mental condition
- Prepare nursing care plans by assessing patient’s psychological and physical condition and conferring with other health care professionals
- Evaluate needs and develop nursing diagnoses, plans for treatment, services, and health education based on the present and predicted needs of the patient
- Identify immediate and long-term care goals
- Review and revise care plans as needed
- Participate in multi-disciplinary treatment teams by coordinating health services and treatment
- Collaborate with professional and paraprofessional staff to ensure optimum health care
- Administer medications intravenously, subcutaneously, intramuscularly, topically, and orally as prescribed by a physician or designee
- Ensure correct time, dosage, and appropriate route of administration
- Count controlled medications to ensure security
- Monitor patient for medication side effects and/or allergic reaction
- Observe patient to determine if medication is effective for prescribed treatment and document
- Notify appropriate personnel of action taken if necessary
- Maintain safety, health, and well-being of individuals in the therapeutic environment
- Assist in physically restraining patients who are a threat to themselves or others and may be hostile and combative
- Follow facility procedures regarding techniques
- Provide crisis intervention
- Help develop safety plan recommendations for patients
- Actively participate in a multidisciplinary team managing a wide variety of patients and diagnoses
- Ensure compliance with CMS standards, as well as established laws, regulations, and NNAMHS policies
Requirements
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse
- Two years of professional nursing experience, one of which included working in a facility or institution with individuals with mental illness, developmental disabilities, or intellectual disabilities; OR one year of experience as a Psychiatric Nurse I in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
