RN- BRG Agency- Internal contract Psych (Nights)

Baton Rouge General Medical Center; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Baton Rouge General Medical Center is seeking a qualified RN to improve patient care quality through coordinated processes. The role involves assessing patient health, collaborating with healthcare teams, and ensuring comprehensive care plans are executed.

Responsibilities include performing assessments, coordinating care, and documenting all patient interactions. Candidates need to have at least one year of nursing experience and must hold a current Louisiana RN license.

Qualifications

• 1 year of nursing experience required.
• Must have current Louisiana RN licensure.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient assessments and care plans.
• Collaborate with healthcare teams for patient care.
• Document all patient interactions and care plans.

Skills

Patient assessment

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Patient education

Documentation skills

Education

Current Louisiana RN licensure

Job description

Job Purpose & Mission

To improve the quality of life of patients and families by coordinating patient care processes of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation in collaboration with the patient, family, physician, and appropriate support services for the age population served, as defined in the department's scope of service.

Essential Job Functions

• Coordinates patient assessment through collection of patient's health data.
• Prioritizes data collection based on the patient's immediate condition or needs.
• Performs ongoing and systematic comprehensive physical and psychosocial assessments.
• Involves the patient, significant others and health care providers as appropriate.
• Performs functional, nutritional and other screenings and ensures triggers are complete.
• Identifies and coordinates the need for further assessment by discipline.
• Documents patient care assessments in the medical record.
• Analyzes patient assessments to determine nursing diagnoses and identifies expected outcomes.
• Determines nursing diagnoses using assessment data.
• Identifies patient outcomes based on the nursing diagnoses.
• Outcomes are prioritized based on the patient's condition and needs.
• Nursing diagnoses and outcomes are documented in the medical record.
• Triage assessment on all patients and follows protocols according to established department guidelines and policies.
• Demonstrates ability to proficiently assess patients in every age group.
• Coordinates an interdisciplinary plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Collaborates with appropriate disciplines and integrates various assessments to formulate an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and current nursing practice standards.
• Reviews and updates the plan of care as the patient condition changes, at least every day.
• Documents the plan of care in the medical record.
• Implements the interventions identified in the plan of care.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary health care team to deliver direct patient care utilizing nursing practice standards, and universal blood and body fluid precautions.
• Uses interventions that are consistent with the patient's plan of care.
• Maintains patient rights.
• Ensures that patients receive the appropriate treatments and medications in a timely manner.
• Delegates patient care to other members of the health care team; ensures the delegated task(s) are within the scope of practice of the assigned individual and maintains oversight and accountability.
• Coordinates direct patient care from appropriate support services.
• Provides individualized patient education to patient and families.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to plan patient discharge.
• Documents all treatments, medications, patient/family education and ongoing assessments.
• Evaluates the patient's progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• Performs ongoing and systematic reassessment according to department standard or more frequently based on patient condition.
• Revises nursing diagnoses, outcomes and plan of care based on reassessments.
• Involves the patient, significant others and healthcare team in the evaluation and update of plan of care as appropriate.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of treatments, medications and patient teaching.
• Accepts and rapidly adapts to a variety of nursing unit assignments related to organizational requirements.
• Demonstrates proficiency in assessment and management of various patient types according to nursing unit assignment.
• Appropriately maintains quality patient care delivery to all patient types.
• Demonstrates ability to build rapport and communicate effectively with patients, co-workers, and physicians for various nursing unit assignments.
• Implements a variety of interventions according to unit specific policy and procedure guidelines.
• Demonstrates the ability to acknowledge, adapt and follow department specific policy and procedure guidelines.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Experience

Required: 1 year of nursing experience

Education

Required: None

Certifications & Licensure

Required: Current Louisiana RN licensure

Preferred: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

Special Skills or Knowledge

Required: None

HIPAA & Safety Requirements

HIPAA - Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Medical records without limitation both paper and electronic, patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient information related to surgery or appointment schedules, medical records related to quality data, patient financial information, patient billing third party, patient related complaints, information related to patient location, religious beliefs and/or public health records.

SAFETY - Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable safety practices appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps and linen, PPE, exposure control plans, hand washing, environment of care, patient identification, administers/collects medications/blood order, transports/monitors or observes patients with infusion pumps, and monitors clinical alarms.

Everyday Excellence Values

• Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community.
• Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.
• Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.
• Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.
• Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.
• Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers.

Corporate Compliance

• Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.
• Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.
• Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honestly and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.

Personal Achievement

• Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.
• Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.
• Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.

Performance Improvement

• Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
• Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.
• Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.
• Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.

Cost Management

• Effectively manages time and resources.
• Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization — material, human, and financial.
• Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes.

Patient & Employee Safety

• Effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
• Proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.
• Demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.
• Demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans.