Staff - Registered Nurse (RN) - Psychiatric - $65-80 per hour New

Kaiser Permanente is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Psychiatric for a nursing job in West Covina, California.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Psychiatric
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: Ongoing
• 1 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours, days
• Employment Type: Staff

Job Summary:
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 dysfuntion; 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 patients and assisting them with self-care activities; monitoring psycho-biological treatment regimens; providing triage decisions and facilitating patient movement into appropriate services.
Essential Responsibilities:

• 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: Experience

• Minimum one (1) year recent (within the last three (3) years) RN Psychiatric experience.

Education

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing School.

License, Certification, Registration

• Registered Nurse License (California)
  

• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association
  

Additional Requirements:

• Psychiatric and chemical dependency knowledge.
• Able to triage and evaluate various aspects of the psychiatric population.
• Group leadership skills, excellent verbal & written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Telephone triage experience.
• BSN preferred.

Kaiser Permanente Job ID #1​3​1​8​0​3​1. Posted job title: Psychiatric Nurse-Rn - Per Diem - West Covina

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