Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse

El Paso is situated in the far western corner of the state of Texas. El Paso stands on the Rio Grande, across the border from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The two cities, along with Las Cruces (in the neighboring state of New Mexico), form a combined international metropolitan area, sometimes referred as the Paso del Norte or El Paso–Juárez–Las Cruces. The region of over 2.7 million people constitutes the largest bilingual-binational work force in the Western Hemisphere. In 2010, El Paso received an All-America City Award. El Paso has been ranked the safest large city in the U.S. for four consecutive years and ranked in the top three since 1997. The city is the headquarters of one Fortune 500 and three publicly traded companies, as well as home to the Medical Center of the Americas, the only medical research and care provider complex in West Texas and southern New Mexico, and the University of Texas at El Paso, the city's primary university. The city hosts the annual Sun Bowl, the second oldest bowl game in the country.

El Paso Psychiatric Center (EPPC) is a 74-bed psychiatric hospital that provides hospitalization to the citizens of far West Texas. The hospital is managed by the Department of State Health Services.

EPPC provides care through two services - Adult Psychiatric Services and Child and Adolescent Services. The adult services program consists of one acute admission unit, one sub acute care unit, and one specialty unit for long term care and forensic services. The child and adolescent program offer services to children from 5 to the age of 12, and adolescents to the age of 17.

El Paso Psychiatric Center is accredited by the Joint Commission which is an independent, not-for-profit organization, which set standards for, and evaluates health care organizations in accordance with nationally recognized guidelines. They focus on the hospital's ability to provide safe, high-quality care. To earn and maintain accreditation, an organization must undergo an on-site survey by a Joint Commission survey team at least every three years.

Location: 4615 Alameda Avenue, El Paso, TX 79905

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (included but not limited to):

• Performs routine nursing work at the competent level in a State Mental Health Hospital.
• Conducts comprehensive assessments of patient's nursing care needs using specialized skills in (depending on the setting) psychiatric or medical-surgical nursing.
• Identifies nursing diagnoses or problem lists and formulates an initial plan of care based on assessment data.
• Serves as a team leader and provides clinical supervision to other nursing staff members including Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN) and Psychiatric Nursing Assistants (Client) as necessary.
• Establishes unit routines and develops and maintains the therapeutic milieu.
• Observes patient behavior and status and report to the physician, other team members, and supervisor as appropriate.
• Carries out nursing interventions as identified in the multi-disciplinary recovery plan. Administers medications as ordered and maintains medication administration and controlled drug records according to facility policy.
• Serves as group leader for therapeutic patient groups or patient teaching activities as necessary or as requested.

Requirements:

• Must have a license to practice professional nursing in the state of Texas or a state that recognizes reciprocity through the Nurse Licensure Compact
• Complete immunization record
• CPR Certification and Heimlich
• Ability to physically be trained on and conduct Treatment Intervention and Preventative Strategies (TIPS)
• BLS/ACLS
• Psychiatric or Med-Surg hospital experience preferred but not required

Shift: 7p-730a, 12-hours/36-hours a week