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What began as an idea between two brothers to open a Mexican restaurant has since grown into one of the largest, privately held Taco Bell franchisees in America. At Border Foods, we work with a people-first mantra. From cooks to cashiers to restaurant managers and beyond, we work together to bring to life the Core Values of Border Foods. Welcome to our family where you will continue to learn, evolve, and shape what comes next on our mission of making lives better.

As an Assistant Manager your mission is to reinforce the Border Foods CORE values, to include Accountability, Integrity, Family, Excellence, Teamwork, and Empowerment.

At Border Foods, we will unlock the full potential of our employees and guest’s restaurant experience by creating safe welcoming and supportive environments where everyone can thrive.

The purpose of the Assistant Manager is to make the lives of the employees and the guests better by creating opportunities to positively impact life experiences. You are responsible for the operation of the entire restaurant and building a strong team that consistently provides customers with great food and a friendly experience.

What’s in it for you? 

-Flexible scheduling 

-Top pay in the industry 

-Bonus program! Assistant General Managers have the potential to make up to an extra $20,000 annually in bonus alone! 

-Education programs, including GED and Tuition Reimbursement offerings  

-Scholarship opportunities 

-Medical/Dental/Vision benefits offered for all positions – even part-time! 

-Free food! 

-Vacation Time (Paid Time Off), Sick, and Holiday Pay 

-Vacation Donation Program 

-An incredible culture that encourages career growth and support

Assistant Manager Core Values:

Accountability & Integrity:

• Consistently demonstrates integrity in actions and expectations
• Guides team members and Shift Leaders, ensuring they complete all assigned duties and serve safe, quality food in a friendly manner
• Scheduling and deploying the Team correctly monitors the performance of each Team Member and hold them accountable for standards and expectations.
• Ensures a quality customer experience by driving fast and friendly service
• Maintains point of sale system by reporting all system failures and verifies download accuracy (e.g. pricing updates, menu changes).
• Ensure health and safety standards are met    
• Adheres to all local, state, and federal laws and guidelines.

Family & Teamwork:

• Creates unity in the team by building cross functional relationships     
• Respond to Team Member questions and resolves employee issues in a timely manner.
• Provide a restaurant that is a safe place for team members to work and customers to visit
• Able to navigate challenging situations and provide appropriate guidance
• Motivates and supports the team through active listening and the ability to communicate to a wide variety of audiences  
• Represents Border Foods in handling customer complaints and/or issues; demonstrating a sincere approach and desire to find an effective solution.
• Instills a recognition culture that creates a positive work environment

Excellence:

• Strategic planner creates short term and long-term strategies for restaurant success  
• Delivers profit by utilizing and interpreting the P&L in order to make the appropriate financial adjustments     
• Sourcing, hiring, and developing excellent Team Members
• Conducting New Hire orientation and developing the training plan for each new hire   
• Minimizes loss through strict observance of cash handling policies, proper training of Team Members, and complying with all accounting/banking requirements.
• Demonstrates efficient labor control, inventory control, and waste management.

Empowerment:

• Builds the capabilities of their team
• Provides learning and development opportunities for all Team Members.     
• Offers guidance to Team Members     
• Consistently demonstrates active and timely coaching capabilities.   
• Bringing others along, operationally, through use of tools.

Required or Preferred Experience:

• Minimum of one years restaurant or retail experience, or combined experience and education.    
• Experience with sales building, P&L statements, recruiting, and training.   
• Proven track record of successful hiring and retention.  
• Required when needed, the ability to work early morning, evenings, late night, weekends, and some holidays. Schedule demands may change.      
• ServeSafe Certified    
• Must be at least 18 years of age.   
• Valid Driver’s license and vehicle insurance.
• High school diploma or equivalent.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands for this position are sits, stands, bends, lifts, and moves intermittently during working hours. These physical requirements may be accomplished with or without reasonable accommodation.

The duties of this position may change from time to time. Border Foods reserves the right to add or delete duties and responsibilities at the discretion of Border Foods or its managers. This job description is intended to describe the general level of work being performed. It is not intended to be all-inclusive.

Border Foods is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Women, Protected Veterans, and individuals with Disabilities and does not discriminate based on gender identity or sexual orientation. 

“You are applying for work with a franchisee of Taco Bell, not Taco Bell Corp. or any of its affiliates. If hired, the franchisee will be your only employer. Franchisees are independent business owners who set their own wage and benefit programs that can vary among franchisees.”

$14 per hour - $35 per hour

PandoLogic. Keywords: Assistant General Manager, Location: Felton, MN - 56536

What began as an idea between two brothers to open a Mexican restaurant has since grown into one of the largest, privately held Taco Bell franchisees in America. At Border Foods, we work with a people-first mantra. From cooks to cashiers to restaurant managers and beyond, we work together to bring to life the Core Values of Border Foods. Welcome to our family where you will continue to learn, evolve, and shape what comes next on our mission of making lives better.

As a General Manager your mission is to reinforce the Border Foods CORE values, to include Accountability, Integrity, Family, Excellence, Teamwork, and Empowerment.

At Border Foods, we will unlock the full potential of our employees and guest’s restaurant experience by creating safe welcoming and supportive environments where everyone can thrive.

The purpose of the General Manager is to make the lives of the employees and the guests better by creating opportunities to positively impact life experiences. You are responsible for the operation of the entire restaurant and building a strong team that consistently provides customers great food and a friendly experience.

What’s in it for you? 

• -Top pay in the industry: Make up to $100,000 a year with base pay plus top-tier bonus potential.
• -Trip to Mexico! Every year, we reward our top performers on our Best of the Best trip to Mexico. In 2020, we’ll be taking 85 General Managers! 
• -Bonus program! General Managers have the potential to make up to an extra forty thousand dollars annually in bonus alone. 
• -Education programs, including GED and Tuition Reimbursement offerings  
• -Scholarship opportunities 
• -Medical/Dental/Vision benefits offered for all positions – even part-time! 
• -Free food! 
• -Vacation Time (Paid Time Off), Sick, and Holiday Pay 
• -Vacation Donation Program 
• -An incredible culture that encourages career growth and support 

General Manager Core Values:

Accountability & Integrity:

• Consistently demonstrates integrity in actions and expectations
• Guides team members and Shift Leaders, ensuring they complete all assigned duties and serve safe, quality food in a friendly manner
• Scheduling and deploying the Team correctly
• Monitors the performance of each Team Member and hold them accountable for standards and expectations.
• Ensures a quality customer experience by driving fast and friendly service
• Maintains point of sale system by reporting all system failures and verifies download accuracy (e.g. pricing updates, menu changes).
• Ensure health and safety standards are met
• Adheres to all local, state, and federal laws and guidelines.

Family & Teamwork

• Creates unity in the team by building cross functional relationships
• Respond to Team Member questions and resolves employee issues in a timely manner.
• Provide a restaurant that is a safe place for team members to work and customers to visit
• Able to navigate challenging situations and provide appropriate guidance
• Motivates and supports the team through active listening and the ability to communicate to a wide variety of audiences
• Represents Border Foods in handling customer complaints and/or issues; demonstrating a sincere approach and desire to find an effective solution.
• Instills a recognition culture that creates a positive work environment

Excellence:

• Strategic planner creates short term and long-term strategies for restaurant success
• Delivers profit by utilizing and interpreting the P&L in order to make the appropriate financial adjustments
• Sourcing, hiring, and developing excellent Team Members
• Conducting New Hire orientation and developing the training plan for each new hire
• Minimizes loss through strict observance of cash handling policies, proper training of Team Members, and complying with all accounting/banking requirements.
• Demonstrates efficient labor control, inventory control, and waste management.

Empowerment:

• Builds the capabilities of their team while identifying teams’ strengths and opportunities
• Provides learning and development opportunities for all Team Members.
• Offers guidance to Team Members regarding personal development opportunities and career path.
• Consistently demonstrates active and timely coaching capabilities.
• Seeks and shares ideas to help others succeed creating and leveraging tools, resources, and information that fosters personal and business growth.
• Bringing others along, operationally, through use of tools.

Required or Preferred Experience:

• Minimum of three years restaurant or retail experience, or combined experience and education.
• Experience with sales building, P&L statements, recruiting, and training.
• Proven track record of successful hiring and retention.
• Required when needed, the ability to work early morning, evenings, late night, weekends, and some holidays. Schedule demands may change.
• ServeSafe Certified
• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Valid Driver’s license and vehicle insurance.
• High school diploma or equivalent.

What’s in it for you? 

• -Top pay in the industry 
• -Trip to Mexico! Every year, we reward our top performers on our Best of the Best trip to Mexico. In 2020, we’ll be taking 85 General Managers! 
• -Bonus program! General Managers have the potential to make up to an extra forty thousand dollars annually in bonus alone. 
• -Education programs, including GED and Tuition Reimbursement offerings  
• -Scholarship opportunities 
• -Medical/Dental/Vision benefits offered for all positions – even part-time! 
• -Free food! 
• -Vacation Time (Paid Time Off), Sick, and Holiday Pay 
• -Vacation Donation Program 
• -An incredible culture that encourages career growth and support 

Physical Demands:

The physical demands for this position are sits, stands, bends, lifts, and moves intermittently during working hours. These physical requirements may be accomplished with or without reasonable accommodation.

The duties of this position may change from time to time. Border Foods reserves the right to add or delete duties and responsibilities at the discretion of Border Foods or its managers. This job description is intended to describe the general level of work being performed. It is not intended to be all-inclusive.

Border Foods is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Women, Protected Veterans, and individuals with Disabilities and does not discriminate based on gender identity or sexual orientation.

“You are applying for work with a franchisee of Taco Bell, not Taco Bell Corp. or any of its affiliates. If hired, the franchisee will be your only employer. Franchisees are independent business owners who set their own wage and benefit programs that can vary among franchisees.”

$50000 per year - $100000 per year

#taco

 

PandoLogic. Keywords: Restaurant Manager, Location: Hudsonville, MI - 49426

*NYS Licensed Veterinary Tech*

We are looking for a NYS Licensed Veterinary Technician to add to our growing team. Our staff works hard at establishing client relationships and provides excellent customer service. This candidate will need to efficiently perform all tasks necessary to support the doctors. They must provide client and patient services with compassion and care.

*Our Core Values:*

We are looking for people who fully align with our core values - how we act and behave towards our patients, clients, and each other.

* Committed: We are motivated to achieve the best possible outcomes.
* Optimistic: We exude positivity and unity.
* Supportive: We go out of our way to provide a friendly, caring experience.

*You will be responsible for:*

* Preparing patients for surgery
* Performing laboratory work, radiographs, and other diagnostic equipment.
* Administering medication.
* Providing the best inpatient and outpatient care.
* Supporting the Doctor effectively and professionally.
* Always providing excellent client and patient services.
* Preparing exam rooms for patients and anticipating procedures, as well as the needs of the individual patients.
* Proper completion of the admissions and discharges.
* Handling and restraining the patient.
* Doing nail trims, dental procedures, vaccine administration per protocol, and other tasks as needed.
* Cleaning the exam area and equipment used during the examination.
* Keeping exam rooms, surgery rooms, pharmacy, and tech stations clean, organized, and stocked.
* Verifying that all documentation required in the file is added promptly.
* Cash handling and payment processing.
* Professionally review discharges with the client.
* Verifying the patient chart has been updated for billing purposes.
* Must work well individually and as an active team member.
* Must have basic knowledge of medical terminology.
* Must possess the skills necessary to analyze situations accurately and take effective actions.
* Must possess the ability to proficiently utilize clinic computer software and Microsoft programs.

*Experience Needed:*

* A minimum of 2 to 5 years of veterinary experience is preferred.
* Required: A.S. degree
* Preferred: Certified, Licensed, or Registered Technician
* Continued Education: Up to date with state requirements.

The responsibilities and qualifications outlined in this job description are intended to provide an overview of the typical tasks and requirements for this position. They are not exhaustive and may be subject to change or expansion as needed to meet the evolving needs of the organization. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences, regardless of the specifics mentioned in this job description. We value diversity and are dedicated to building a team that represents a variety of perspectives and skills.

*Equal Employment Opportunity *

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences, regardless of the specifics mentioned in this job description. We value diversity and are dedicated to building a team that represents a variety of perspectives and skills.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $20.50 - $24.50 per hour

Benefits:
* 401(k) matching
* Dental insurance
* Employee assistance program
* Employee discount
* Health insurance
* Paid time off
* Professional development assistance
* Referral program
* Retirement plan
* Tuition reimbursement
* Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details

Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

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Now Hiring a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN), Day Shift! $7K Sign on Bonus + Shift Differential!

POSITION SUMMARY:
The purpose of this position is to provide clinical oversight for the day-to-day operations of the hospital, work with patients in a therapeutic setting, follow and carry out physician orders, complete assessments, initiate and update treatment plans, direct patient care, group and individual therapy/education, referral for intake and continuum of care, application of treatment and restraints or seclusion interventions. Meeting patient goals, clinical documentation, IV administration, medication administration, educating family members, teaching and supervising other mental healthcare workers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Ensures that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patient needs, health status conditions, as well as patient response to interventions and provides nursing staff to meet those needs
• Actively involved in treatment modalities/interventions and documenting progress
• Evaluates the care for each patient on admission and on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted nursing practice
• Ensures that the nursing staff develops and keeps current nursing care plans for each patient
• Makes all patient care assignments
• Supervise and evaluates the clinical activities of each non-employee nursing staff person
• Reviews staffing schedules and meets patient care need to make adjustment for nursing staff absenteeism
• Administer medications, IV administration and venipuncture techniques as authorized by state laws
• Carry out physician orders
• Patient/Family education regarding medication administration, patient disorder needs, benefits, side effects, disease prevention and basic living skills
• Complete comprehensive nursing assessments, treatment, and tests
• Complete psychiatric metric measures
• Complete documentation in medical charts that is organized, clear, complete, current and legible; compliance with completion, filing, retrieval of medical records.
• Ensure a safe therapeutic and sanitized environment
• Complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision and supervises personnel performance and nursing care for department
• Adhere to and respect all policies regarding patient rights, anonymity, and confidentiality of all patient records past and present. This covers any written or verbal communications regarding a patient's identity, address and situation.
• Observes and evaluates patients' signs, symptoms, and therapy progress
• Identifies and interprets patient findings or changes requiring attention or notification of other professional staff
• Maintains a clean safe work environment
• Accepts orders from licensed physician, MD's and maintains accurate inventory of medication and stores them in a secure area
• Investigates and documents complaints and incidents regarding patients, staff, visitors, and family members in compliance with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Adheres, demonstrates, and monitors compliance regarding patient rights, abuse and neglect, seclusion and restraint, infection control, professional ethics, cultural competency, and advance directives as mandated by federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Functions in a friendly, supportive, courteous, respectful, cooperative, and professional manner with patients, families, physicians, referral sources, visitors, coworkers, and management
• Implements and complies with Advance Directives formulated by patients
• Bring questions or concerns regarding prescribing orders to the practitioner/physician
• Ensures that patient information is completed timely, filed timely, and accessible for retrieval from the medical record
• Ensures all entries are dated, timed and authenticated (this includes verbal orders which should be utilized at a minimum)
• Ensure results of consultative evaluations, complications, hospital acquired infections, and unfavorable reactions of the drugs are included in the medical chart
• Ensures informed consents are properly executed
• Ensures and demonstrates that medical records contain physician orders, nursing notes, care plans, reports of treatment, medication records, radiology reports, lab reports, vital signs, and any other information necessary to monitor the patient's condition
• Provide pharmaceutical services within scope of license and education
• Prevents transmission of infections among patients, personnel and visitors, identifies persons who may be exposed or infected, provide treatment or preventative measures, and logistics issues (staff, medical supplies, re-supply, continued operations, and capacity)
• Measures for early identification of patients who require isolation in accordance with CDC guidelines. Utilizes and monitors for personal protective equipment (gowns, gloves, masks, and eye protection devices), uses techniques for isolation as recommended by CDC
• Promotes, monitors, and utilizes hand washing hygiene among staff and employees including utilization of alcohol based sanitizers, measures specific prevention of infections that are antibiotic resistant, prevention of device associated bloodstream infections or other device associated infections (central venous catheters, tube feedings, indwelling catheters); isolation procedures for highly immune-suppressed patients, care techniques (burns and other situations) utilizing disinfectants, antiseptics, germicides used in accordance with manufacturers instruction. Appropriate use of medical equipment, adherence to nationally recognized infection prevention and control precautions, and educates patients, visitors, caregivers and staff about infections and communicable diseases and methods to reduce transmission. Complies with reportable disease requirements.
• Demonstrates the development discharge plans/reassessment of plans that are made before discharge and arrangements for appropriate post-hospital care that avoid unnecessary delays in discharge
• Transfer or refers patients with necessary medical information to appropriate facilities, agencies or outpatient services as needed for follow-up or ancillary care
• Provide emergency care within safe and appropriate times
• Promotes, adheres, and monitors for a drug and violence free work place
• Meets all standards regarding continuing education and basic qualifications

Required Skills:
• Awareness and knowledge of standard nursing practice and knowledge of the persons served and the conditions of geriatric and/or mentally ill patients
• Communication and interpersonal skills to de-escalate potentially violent patients and prevention of and early intervention for assaultive, self-injurious behavior
• Able to problem solve and make decisions, especially during crisis situations
• Knowledge and demonstrates use of equipment including restraint systems
• Knowledge and demonstrates the specific needs of the population in the following:
o Techniques to identify patient behaviors, events and environmental factors that may trigger circumstances that require the use of restraint or seclusion
o The use of nonphysical interventions skills
o The safe application and use of all types of restraints or seclusion used in the hospital and how to recognize and respond to signs of physical and psychological distress
o Clinical identification of specific behavioral changes that restraint or seclusion is no longer necessary
o Monitoring the physical and psychological well-being of the patient who is restrained or secluded including but not limited to respiratory, circulatory, skin integrity, vital signs and any special requirements specified by the hospital policy associated with one-hour face-to-face evaluation
o The use of first aid techniques and certification in the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including required periodic recertification
o Death reporting requirements associated with the use of seclusion and restraints
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates hospital policies, procedures regarding abuse, neglect, patient care, patient safety, reporting incidents, investigating incidents, and compliance in regulations with federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures regarding seclusion and restraint, and patient rights
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the needs of the population served
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates all legal issues and applicable in federal and state laws, accreditation, policies and procedures
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates universal precautions and the methods of controlling communicable diseases
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates ethics, compliance, cultural competency, advance directives, and legal aspects
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates IV administration, i.e., fluid/electrolyte balance, blood components, and venipuncture techniques
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates DSM IV diagnosis, psychotropic medication, and side effects of medications
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates thorough patient treatment plans that are based on an inventory of needs, strengths, and goals
• Legal aspects of clinical practice and professional standards
• Knowledgeable and demonstrates the mission of the hospital
• Promotion of the reduction of stigma of mental illness
• Knowledgeable of the persons served and their rights
• Advocate for the needs of the persons served

Required Work Experience:
• One (1) year of clinical nursing experience preferably in geriatrics and/or mental health

Licensing/Certification/Education Requirements: . click apply for full job details