Psychiatric RN-Per Diem - Sylmar

Psychiatric RN-Per Diem - Sylmar

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 dysfunction; 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.
• Education: Graduate from an accredited Nursing School.
• License, Certification, Registration: 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.
• Outpatient Psychiatry is preferred.
• Spanish speaking preferred.

Note: Requires covering SCL clinic, as needed.