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- Maintains an awareness of function and current activities of the various committees in the hospital, their purpose, and assists in providing clear explanations to the other staff; serving on teams and/or committees as assigned.
- Addresses personnel performance improvement issues at the time noticed, to provide supportive documentation and assists with any follow-up as necessary.
- Must be aware of Infection Control standards, policies, procedures and reporting mechanism.
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Description
Job Details
Job Location
Highland- Clarksburg Hospital - Clarksburg, WV
Position Type
Per Diem
Description
JOB SUMMARY:
Works with a treatment team to assess and provide prescribed services for individuals with a psychiatric diagnosis. Reports to the Unit Nurse Managers.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
QUALIFICATIONS:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and Experience:
Graduation from an approved/accredited school of nursing.
Relevant experience in psychiatric nursing, preferably in a multi-disciplinary setting.
Language Skills:
Ability to read and interpret instructions, documents and follow procedures. Ability to write routine reports and speak effectively with patients and their families, employees and public.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables as needed.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
WV Registered Nurse licensure.
Other skills and Abilities:
Knowledge of and experience with psychotropic medications.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects.
The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel or crouch, and smell. The employee must occasionally lift or assist a patient and be able to move up to 100 pounds.Incumbent will be expected to participate as necessary in the physical restraint of patients, have the ability to respond to rapidly escalating patient situations, and adapt to the many varied resultant physical posturing as a result of such circumstances after Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) training.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Incumbent functions in a normal building environment or community settings, requiring the ability to adapt to periodic changes in environmental conditions, i.e., temperature, air quality, and noise.
