Registered Nurse-BHU/FT/Days

Job Title: Registered Nurse - Full Time: 3 shifts per week, weekend availability required 

Base Rate: $41.73- $61.35    

12 hr. shifts- paid overtime after 8 hours, resulting in an average rate of $48.69 - $71.57  

Job Summary: This position supports the Mission of the Hospital through the provision of distinctive and compassionate care to our patients. This position will provide safe and therapeutic management of patient care to adult and elderly behavioral health patients through utilization of the Nursing process, in adherence to the Standards of practice, policies and procedures, and in collaboration with other members of the healthcare team. Actively and consistently contributes to department operations and communications, behaves in a manner consistent with the mission, vision, and values of Pipeline Health, upholding standards of AIDET (Acknowledge, Introduce, Duration, Explanation, Thank you) patient communication.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Essential Functions: 

• Provides direct patient care to a specified patient population.
• Appropriately manages the care of mental health patients, maintaining department standards of quality.
• Prioritizes patient care based on physical, psychiatric, and psychosocial assessment.
• Assures implementation of patient care based on identified needs and in a systematic and therapeutic manner as evidenced by the interdisciplinary treatment plan.
• Coordinates patient care utilizing the nursing process.

• Collects data by interviewing patients, family/significant other within specified time frame.
• Utilizes collected data to establish a list of actual and potential patient problems/needs.
• Utilizes collected data to form a hypothesis as to the etiologic basis for each identified actual or potential problem/need.
• Assesses educational level, learning needs, preferred teaching methods and barriers to learning.
• Reports abnormal diagnostic date and/or changes in patients' condition to physician in a timely manner.
• Collaborates with patients, significant others, and other health team members in identification of problem/needs.

• Utilizes nursing diagnosis for the actual or potential problem/needs, which nurses, by virtue of education and experience, are able, responsible, and accountable to treat.
• Establishes the priority of problems /needs according to the actual/potential threat to the patient.
• Communicates the written plan of care, and changes to the plan, to the patient, family, significant other and other members of health care team through the report process and other methods as appropriate.
• Updates/revises the written plan of care as patient needs are resolved and/or as patient condition changes.
• Attends weekly multidisciplinary meetings to update and individualize master treatment plan according to needs of the patient.
• Reviews and implements physician orders accurately and timely.

• Performs basic nursing procedures, specific unit-based nursing procedures and/or standardized procedures safely, accurately, and efficiently per policy and procedure.
• Incorporates interventions that communicate acceptance on the patients' beliefs, culture, religion, and socioeconomic background.
• Considers knowledge deficits, barriers to learning and appropriate teaching methods in performing patient teaching.
• Collaborates with other disciplines to ensure an uninterrupted treatment plan.
• Participates in continuous quality improvement of the program.
• Observes records and reports stability of changes in the patients' condition.  Monitors the patients' attendance in program activities and treatment modalities.
• Interacts with patient on a one-to-one basis in a therapeutic manner.
• Monitors the safety of the therapeutic milieu and assists in the management of the assaultive patient.
• Evaluates effectiveness and patient response to treatments, procedures, and medications.  Provides alternative interventions as needed and re-evaluates.