Registered Nurse, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Unit

Job Summary:

As a Registered Nurse, you’ll be part of tight-knit team that believes in the healing power of your expertise and compassion.

An RN is responsible and accountable to perform the nursing process as a basis for patient care.

RNs provide direction and oversight to other licensed and non-licensed staff.

RNs show compassion to recipients of services, coworkers, and surrounding communities through integrity, stewardship, empowerment, the promotion of diversity, and professional excellence. 

 

Our RNs are driven to make an impact in the lives of those we serve and are motivated by the healing they witness first-hand each day.

They are dedicated to excellent customer service, enthusiastic about the care we offer, and foster a sense of belonging and empowerment in a diverse workplace.
 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:



* Assesses person’s served care needs, develops a plan of care in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, and continually reassesses plan of care according to person’s served care needs.


* In collaboration with the physician, provides/coordinates nursing care to individuals and groups of person’s served.


* Assists in the teaching of persons’ served families, and provides milieu management.

Communicates with and educates persons’ served families/significant others in discharge/after care planning needs.


* Provides a safe and secure environment for persons served and staff in both individual and group settings.


* Responsible for documenting, reporting, and verifying all necessary information according to established policies and procedures.


* Responsible to monitor for and report to the physician(s) any potential risk to person’s served safety that could lead to an adverse outcome.


* Creates a customer/client friendly environment by following quality improvement standards, maintaining professionalism, initiating and maintaining positive relationships with departments/programs, co-workers and external customers.


* Provides care in various clinical settings with diverse person’s served populations.

Identifies specific person’s served needs and implements person’s served centered, compassionate care.


* Functions as a clinical leader, delegating/coordinating staff assignments and promoting staff development.


* Responsible for the utilization and continued review of patient care protocols, standards of practice, and standards of care.

Gives input into process for improvement.


* May be responsible in training direct care staff.


* May be indirectly responsible for oversight of medication and physical health activities in a program.


* May be responsible for scheduling, staffing, and obtaining pre-authorizations.


* Responsible to role model the mission and values of the organization, presenting a professional image that is projected in appearance, attitudes and behaviors, time management and communication skills.

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