Psychiatric RN ( Job Number: 230148 )
Location: Riverside California
Description: Kaiser Permanente is currently interviewing Psychiatric RN ( Job Number: 230148 ) right now, this career will be placed in California. For complete informations about this career opportunity kindly see the descriptions. Responsible for the delivery of psychiatric nursing care/services to members being treated in the behavioral health service departments. Positions assigned to this classification are characterized by providing interventions that: promote and foster health; assess dysfunction; assist patients to regain or improve their coping abilities; maximize patient strengths and prevent further disability. These interventions focus on the psychiatric-mental health patient and include: health promotion and health maintenance; monitoring p! atients and assisting them with self-care activities; monitori! ng psycho-biological treatment regimens; providing triage decisions and facilitating patient movement into appropriate services.
Essential Functions:
- Coordinates with pharmacy regarding approved medications.
- Provides information and education to members in a variety of forums.
- Documents Services rendered utilizing standard nursing procedures in member chart.
- Triage phone calls and refer to appropriate staff or community resources.
- Assist Psychiatrists with coordinating internal and external hospitalizations of members.
- Performs basic physical assessments of patients including vital signs and monitoring for side effects of psychiatric active medications and referring information to physicians as appropriate.
- Provides prescribed medications to patients per physicians' orders following appropriate protocol.
- Utilizes electronic medical record for medication refills.
- Reviews lab ! results and refers to physician within protocols and guidelines.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the Department Administrator and/or Chief of Psychiatry.
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum one (1) year of recent (within the last three (3) years) RN Psychiatric experience.
- Telephone triage experience preferred.
- Graduate from an accredited nursing school.
- BSN preferred.
- Current CA RN License.
- Psychiatric & chemical dependency knowledge.
- Able to triage & evaluate various aspects of the psychiatric population.
- Group leadership skills, excellent verbal & written communication skills.
- This is a temporary position for approximately 60 days.
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If you were eligible to this career, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Kaiser Permanente.
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This career starts available on: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:51:42 GMT
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