Registered Nurse - RN - Psychiatric
Location: Dallas Texas
Description: Maxim Healthcare Services is looking of Registered Nurse - RN - Psychiatric right now, this career will be placed in Texas. Further informations about this career opportunity kindly see the descriptions. Psychiatric RN:
Maxim Healthcare Services in North Texas is currently seeking an experienced Psychiatric (Psych) Registered Nurse (RN) for night and evening contracts in Terre! ll Texas. We are looking for the following for our Psychiatric (Psych) Registered Nurse (RN):
- Psychiatric (Psych) Registered Nurse (RN) with at least 1 year of experience
- Psychiatric (Psych) Registered Nurse (RN) with full medical records
o BCLS - American Heart Association
o Texas or Compact state licensure
o Physical within the past 12 months
o TB within the past year/Chest X-Ray within the past 1 year
o T-dap
o Flu Vaccine
- Psychiatric (Psych) Registered Nurse (RN) that has very strong employee characteristics
o Positive attitude
o Strong work ethics
For our Psychiatric (Psych) Registered Nurse (RN), we offer the following:
- Night or Evening Shift
- Competitive pay
- Full-time
- Full medical benefits (medical, dental, vision, life in! surance)
- A 24/7 on-call team of recruiting and staffi! ng professionals
- Phone: 214-905-2933
- Email: Dallasnursing@maxhealth.com
care. The nurse demonstrates ability to make clinical judgments in an effective and efficient manner with supervision. The nurse demonstrates critical thinking and performance ability in the coordination of patient care. Consistently performs according to nursing standards and is accountable in managing patient care and assisting others in the management of patient care.
Responsibilities include:
- Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate ! patient care in a psychiatric facility setting.
- Performs focused interview to identify specific patients needs.
- Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition.
- Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses.
- Documents the patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions.
- Identifies and prioritizes actions based upon patient care requirements.
- Monitors consistency between patient plan of care and actions of medical staff.
- Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard.
- Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic patient environment.
- Initiates and evaluates patient and/or family education. !
- Revises the plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medica! l plan of care, and effective/ineffective nursing interventions.
- Documents patient’s response to nursing and other interventions.
- Uses clinical judgment in evaluation activities to meet patient care needs of an assigned unit/floor including establishing priorities.
- Monitors the safety and effectiveness of the environment and equipment.
- Participates in activities to facilitate good interpersonal communications with the chosen facility.
- Supports professional practice by observing the following: Uses knowledge and practices in accordance with 1) the Nurse Practice Act; 2) Standards of Nursing Practice; 3) Standards of Patient Care; 4)JCAHO, state and local laws; 5) Patient’s Bill of Rights; and 6) Maxim Healthcare, nursing and client hospital policies.
- Other duties as assigned
- Current Registered Nurse License for the state in which the nurse practices.
- Full! command, verbal and written, of the English language.
- Current Health Certificate (if applicable)
- Current PPD or chest X-Ray.
- One year prior professional nursing experience in a psychiatric acute care hospital or its equivalent preferred.
- Current BLS card.
- Successful completion of screening tests for the clinical specialty area(s) in which the RN practices with a score of 80% or greater.
- Maxim background screening.
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- 401k Program
- Competitive Pay
- Flexible Scheduling
- Direct Deposit
- Positive Work Environment and Internal Bonuses
- Travel Benefits (as applicable)
- 24 hour on- call service
EOE/AAE
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If you were eligible to this career, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Maxim Healthcare Services.
If you interested on this career just click on the Apply button, you will be redirected to the official website
This career starts available on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 01:17:19 GMT
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