Psychiatric Rn - West Covina, United States - Kaiser Permanente
Description
Job Summary:
Responsible for the delivery of psychiatric nursing care/services to members being treated in the behavioral health service departments.
Positions assigned to this classification are characterized by providing interventions that:
promote and foster health; assess dysfuntion; assist patients to regain or improve their coping abilities; maximize patient strengths and prevent further disability.
These interventions focus on the psychiatric-mental health patient and include: health promotion and health maintenance; monitoring patients and assisting them with self-care activities; monitoring psycho-biological treatment regimens; providing triage decisions and facilitating patient movement into appropriate services.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Coordinates with pharmacy regarding approved medications.
- Provides information and education to members in a variety of forums.
- Documents Services rendered utilizing standard nursing procedures in member chart.
- Triage phone calls and refer to appropriate staff or community resources.
- Assist Psychiatrists with coordinating internal and external hospitalizations of members.
- Performs basic physical assessments of patients including vital signs and monitoring for side effects of psychiatric active medications and referring information to physicians as appropriate.
- Provides prescribed medications to patients per physicians orders following appropriate protocol.
- Utilizes electronic medical record for medication refills.
- Reviews lab results and refers to physician within protocols and guidelines.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the Department Administrator and/or Chief of Psychiatry.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- Minimum one (1) year recent (within the last three (3) years) RN Psychiatric experience.
- Graduate from an accredited Nursing School.
- Registered Nurse License (California)
- Basic Life Support from American Heart Association
Additional Requirements:
- Psychiatric and chemical dependency knowledge.
- Able to triage and evaluate various aspects of the psychiatric population.
- Group leadership skills, excellent verbal & written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Telephone triage experience.
- BSN preferred.
PrimaryLocation :
California,West Covina,West Covina Pkwy. Mental Health
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift :
Day
Workdays :
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
WorkingHoursStart : 07:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 07:00 PM
Job Schedule :
Full-time
Job Type :
Standard
Employee Status :
Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation :
B11-PSC|NUHW|NUHW Psych Social Chapter
Job Level :
Individual Contributor
Job Category :
Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
Department :
West Covina/Garvey Mental Hlth - Mental Hlth/Psychiatry-RegClin - 0806
Travel :
Yes, 10 % of the Time
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