REGISTERED NURSE, PSYCHIATRIC

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Are you looking for a career you can feel good about? We hire only those that strive to do their best. By joining our family, you'll receive the honor and recognition that comes with working for the industry's global leader in evidenced based rehabilitation.

Who We Are:

GEO provides complementary, turnkey solutions for numerous government partners worldwide across a spectrum of diversified correctional and community reentry services. From the development of state-of-the-art facilities and the provision of management services and evidence-based rehabilitation to the post-release reintegration and supervision of individuals in the community, GEO offers fully diversified, cost-effective services that deliver enhanced quality and improved outcomes.

Why Work for GEO:

• We believe that work is more than a place you go to every day. It is about being inspired and motivated to achieve extraordinary things.
• Employee benefits play an important role in making The GEO Group a great place to work. At GEO, we believe in the three pillars of employee wellbeing: physical, emotional, and financial. With comprehensive benefits and competitive wages, we trust that you will find all the resources you need here to be successful.

Responsibilities

Summary:
This RN, Psychiatric evaluates and treats inmates demonstrating signs of mental illness by initiating and providing comprehensive nursing care while observing and maintaining the requirements of operational security.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• The RN, Psychiatric ensures the implementation of physician's orders. Ensures that prescribed medications are administered as ordered using the formulary. Applies knowledge of drugs and therapeutics in dispensing medication.
• Makes observation rounds on patients, and records in progress notes. Evaluates symptoms, reactions, and progress of patients on a periodic basis, charts, and reports problems to management.
• The RN, Psychiatric maintains security while dispensing medications and is continually cognizant of the potential hazard of drug hoarding and trafficking among detainees/inmates. Maintains non- involvement in the security aspects of care.
• Destroys and properly disposes of all needles/syringes.
• The RN, Psychiatric, prepares regularly scheduled reports and special reports, as necessary.
• Maintains compliance with industry and company policies for accreditation.
• The RN, Psychiatric documents all detainee/inmate contacts. Maintains confidentiality of medical records.
• Evaluates all patients referred for presence of mental illness.
• Refers patients, as necessary.
• The RN, Psychiatric provides emergency psychiatric care as required.
• Provides in-service education for medical and correctional staff as requested.
• The RN, Psychiatric documents all services provided in the patient’s medical file.
• Participates in review of the quality of care provided.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Associate’s or Bachelor's degree from an approved program; graduate of an accredited school of nursing required. Must have a current, unrestricted license to practice as Registered Nurse in the state the facility is located. Maintains a current copy of license on file at the facility at all times.
• Two (2) years of direct work experience as a Registered Nurse preferred.
• Must possess competence in the performance of the following services: crisis intervention, medical emergencies, physical assessment, medical nursing care, and psychiatric nursing care.
• Must have the ability to work without direct, immediate supervision in performing nursing diagnosis, and be able provide appropriate follow through treatment.
• Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.
  

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