Nurses, Registered/NEW YORK, NY (Onsite)/two years Contract

Title: Nurses, Registered
Location: NEW YORK, NY (Onsite)
Duration: Up to two years
Healthcare Facility Name: Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center

Job Description
Shift Days/Times
Day Shift: 7AM-7:30PM
Evening Shift: 7PM-7:30AM

As a registered professional nurse, diagnose and treats human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as case-finding, health teaching, health counseling and provides care, supportive to or restorative of life and wellbeing, and executes medical regimes prescribed by a physician or dentist.


Major Responsibilities:
I. Assessment:
a) Completes an accurate assessment of individual patient's need for treatment. Utilizes the nursing process to identify patient problems and appropriate nursing interventions.
b) Communicates assessment findings to nursing staff and other health care professionals via the medical record, the Nursing Care Plan, and the Treatment Plan and verbally through shift to shift Hand-off Communication.
c) Assesses the need for patient and family instruction/teaching regarding the patient's medical/psychiatric diagnosis and identified medication/treatment regime.
d) Formulates Nursing Diagnosis for each patient based on assessment findings.
e) Utilizes the Patient Acuity System to determine patient needs to maintain standards of care.
f) Assesses personal learning needs related to delivery of patient care.
g) Assess the learning capabilities of individual patients as it relates to delivery of patient care.


II. Planning:
a) Formulates an individual written care of plan for each patient based upon comprehensive assessment findings, utilizing patient and family input.
b) As a member of the treatment team, the RN is involved in the treatment planning process.
c) Contributes in the development of patient outcomes that are specific and measurable within a realistic time frame.
d) Updates the plan of care based on ongoing assessment.
d) Develops a patient education and discharge plan based upon assessment of patient/family needs and learning capabilities.
e) Establishes priorities in patient care to utilize time in an efficient manner.
f) Collaborates with other health care professionals regarding the patient's plan of care.