Senior Behavioral Health Registered Nurse
Covenant Health is seeking a qualified Senior Behavioral Health Registered Nurse to join our team. As a registered nurse, you will provide professional nursing care to patients within an assigned unit and coordinate care planning with other disciplines.
Responsibilities:
* Correlate patient history and support systems within hospital care/nursing home care.
* Assess needs of patient and family.
* Develop and initiate plan of care, involving patient and family.
* Recommends interventions.
* Evaluates plan of care.
* Clinical expertise and knowledge is such that individual can resolve complex patient/management/physician problems without supervision.
* Demonstrates competence in performing critical skills to include appropriate delivery of care according to the age-specific needs of the population served.
* Leads process improvement initiatives in their own unit or participate in facility team.
* Precepts new employees/students or attends formal preceptor workshop and is willing to precept.
* Reviews clinical performance of preceptee with unit leader or clinical instructor.
* Provides four contact hours of educational activities, excluding basic patient education.
* Contributes to development and evaluation of unit orientation program.
* Supervises LPNs, Nursing Assistants, HUCs, Techs, and sitters.
* Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards.
Qualifications:
* Minimum Education: None specified; however, must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
* Minimum Experience: Minimum of three (3) years professional experience.
* Licensure Requirement: Must have and maintain Tennessee State RN licensure.