Registered Nurse RBH 6103

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Focusing on “Whole-Person” Healthcare
Meridian Health Services is a progressive healthcare organization that believes in treating the “whole person” integrating physical, mental and social well-being to help people achieve their optimum health. This approach connects treatments and doctors working together to heal both the body and mind for total well-being.

Meridian Health Services is currently seeking a full time Registered Nurse to provide services at Riverbend Hospital located in Lafayette, Indiana. This position works full time with a shift of 7pm - 7am.

Registered Nurse Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates medication administration skills: (minimal errors, timely med pass):
• Demonstrates pharmacodynamics knowledge: (adverse effects, drug interactions, therapeutic response, etc.).
• Demonstrates knowledge of pathophysiology with particular emphasis on population served.
• Demonstrates skill with physical assessment.
• Demonstrates timely follow through with client appointments, labs, and medical concerns.
• Acts as patient advocate to monitor individualization of treatment, coordinate treatment plans, and work with treatment in effective and proactive manner.
• Demonstrates effective and respectful verbal communication skills with clients, co-workers, and visitors.
• Informs physicians of changes in client’s condition (behavioral/physical, abnormal labs/vital signs, significant contact with others).
• Demonstrates ability to complete required clinical documentation.
• Accurately documents and transcribes physician’s orders
• Obtains staff input regarding safety/security risks in making unit management decisions.
• Implements necessary restrictions ordered or as nursing measures when warranted by physical and/or psychiatric conditions.
• Demonstrates safety/security on unit (verbal/physical interventions (CPI), emergency codes, universal precautions, CPR, event reports, assessment of client risk factors).
• Demonstrates skill with documentation (PRN’s, timely notation of orders, charting, etc.).
• Demonstrates skill with admission/discharge process: (completes paperwork in a timely manner including assessment for pain, falls, and suicide risk).
• Demonstrates effective and timely written communication skills.
• Demonstrates effective planning and organization skills.
• Uses the nursing process to manage and allocate personnel and unit resources, to assure completion of unit tasks, and to meet the needs of clients and milieu.
• Motivates nursing staff to grow professionally by acting as a role model in direct appropriate communication, professional accountability, and continuing education.
• Uses the nursing process to formulate individual treatment plans in consultation with unit staff, physicians, treatment team, and other disciplines; treatment plans are formulated toward