REGISTERED NURSE (RN) - PART TIME

Registered Nurse (RN) Part Time

The Registered Nurse provides safe and effective nursing care in the assigned area(s) in a manner consistent with the philosophy and objectives of the Hospital and within the framework of established policies and procedures of the Department of Nursing Services. As a key team member in the clinical area, the Registered Nurse promotes a climate of effective performance and learning through role modeling, willingness to learn and teach, and availability to patients and staff.

Responsibilities include organizing and directing care of patients, setting priorities and formulating assignments to include the most skilled staff to care for the most acutely ill patients. The Registered Nurse ensures staff complete assigned duties and patient care responsibilities during the assigned shift. They provide thorough unit orientation to new staff and function as Charge Nurse when assigned. They assess each patient, complete a plan of care, formulate a nursing diagnosis based upon assessment findings, and document patient behavior, condition, and care in an accurate, timely, and legible manner on all assigned patients.

The Registered Nurse provides shift report using concise, meaningful language with all pertinent information, including patient name, diagnosis, physician, precautions, and levels of supervision, legal status, and discharge status, if known. They follow safety procedures, utilize appropriate observation levels for patients, provide nursing care within the scope of practice, actively attend and encourage participation of patients in milieu activities, anticipate emergent situations, intervene early and appropriately, and manage complex patient care situations utilizing departmental policies and procedures that promote the most therapeutic alternatives.

Qualifications include a graduate of an accredited nursing school, licensure by the California Board of Registered Nursing, and clinical experience in a psychiatric setting preferred. The Registered Nurse must be able to interact positively with patients on a daily basis, demonstrate leadership ability, provide appropriate supervision/oversight of staff, work successfully under highly stressful conditions, make sound, independent judgments based on scientific and/or ethical principles, comprehend and perform oral and written instructions and procedures, collaborate with other multidisciplinary team members in an appropriate fashion, adapt to varying workloads and work assignments on a constant basis, and have math skills to enable calculation of drug dosages and infusion rates.