Mental Health Registered Nurse (RN) NOC shifts

Essential Functions:

The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills and competencies as well as attitude.

• Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
• Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
• Champions new ideas.
• Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
• Participates in problem identification and resolution.
• Mentors, new employees and team members.
• Shares responsibility w/subordinates working as a team player.
• Demonstrates ability to problem solve.
• Complies w/ regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Answers calls and performs pre-placement assessment
• Upholds Costa Colina’s Policies and Procedures, Principles of responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws
• Leads and directs others through the change process.
• Knowledge of Bestnotes a plus

Nursing Process:

• Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Perform insurance verification screening on new patients.
• Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures.
• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition and treatment.
• Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects

Documentation:

• Assure charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
• Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.
• Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
• Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes w/ physicians and other members of the health care team.
• Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
• Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
• Adherence to workplace safety principles and practices.
• Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving
• Maintains a safe environment for self and others
• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.

Qualifications:

Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.

Minimum of 2 years of Behavioral Health nursing experience preferred

Current California Nursing License

Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support card. (BLS)

Nightshifts available full and part-time, 7 days per week: 11 p.m. to 7:30 a.m.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer