Staff Nurse II

Staff Nurse

The Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center Staff Nurse performs nursing services as a health team member in Outreach clinics. This position provides health education and patient counseling to control and prevent disease and promote optimum health and wellbeing of clients. This position responds to health needs of patients when seen in the clinic by identifying and assessing health care requirement of problems expressed.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Proactively contributes to Eskenazi Health's mission: Advocate, Care, Teach and Serve with special emphasis on the vulnerable population of Marion County.
• Models Eskenazi Health values of Professionalism, Respect, Innovation, Development and Excellence.
• Performs nursing services as a health team member in Outreach clinics.
• Provides health education and patient counseling to control and prevent disease and promote optimum health and wellbeing of clients.
• Responds to health needs of patients when seen in the clinic by identifying and assessing health care requirement of problems expressed.
• Assists physicians and other team members in clinics.
• Develops and implements nursing care interventions based upon goals in the Plan of Care.
• Refers clients to appropriate agencies/organizations to promote continuity of care for patients and families based upon nursing assessment responses from the client/family.
• Works collaboratively with physicians and other health professionals to implement treatments, dispense medications, and give medication and injections in accordance with prescribed orders, instructions.
• Works as a member of a health team to counsel clients and their families in health education, medication education and treatment instructions.
• Attends staff meetings regularly and punctually to share information regarding patients, policies/procedures, peer review, and resource material.
• Completes and submits internal nursing audits regularly.
• Interviews patients and records health history, prepares, maintains and uses records for reports for direct client services.
• Alters activities/behaviors to reflect/ensure adequate care appropriate to the age of patients served (i.e. adolescent, geriatric, pediatric, neonatal, adult) as directed in the area/unit age-specific and/or job specific competencies.
• Ensures the timely completion of all documentation per policy.
• Meets productivity goal as set forth by the agency.
• Demonstrates an understanding of The Recovery Model.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum of twelve months of clinical experience in Behavioral Health.
• Minimum of 12 months clinical nursing experience as a Registered Nurse.
• Current Indiana License as Registered Nurse.
• Must have valid Indiana Driver's License.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Skills in nursing, health assessment, teaching/counseling, effective interpersonal communications.
• Knowledge of: disease processes and their treatment/prevention, basic science, current clinical protocol/nursing techniques, medication/drugs and their use/side effects, community resources' referrals, culture attitudes/custom appropriate departmental procedures and local/State/Federal laws/regulations.
• Knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess date/interpret appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to age-specific needs.
• Ability to use appropriate communication skills. Age appropriate cognitive abilities, skills, techniques and communications are detailed in the department/area/unit job specific/age specific competencies.
• Follows directions, prioritize duties and shows flexibility.
• Works efficiently in stressful situation and demonstrates professional judgment.
• Applies problem-solving methodologies, techniques, motivates patients, displays sensitivity, empathy, and has appropriate response to culture patterns, differences.

Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center's primary mission is to serve individuals with serious mental illness and chronic addiction as well as seriously emotionally disturbed children and their families. Patients of all ages are welcomed, from children to seniors, with a philosophy of care that stresses strength-based and family- and community-centered treatment utilizing the Recovery Model of treatment.