Registered Nurse III (Charge Nurse) - Overnight Shift

Taunton State Hospital is seeking a candidate for the Nursing Services department to function as a Charge Nurse (Registered Nurse III), providing nursing care, custody, and instruction to adult psychiatric patients on locked units; establishing a nursing plan of care utilizing the Person-Centered Approach within the Recovery Model; and assessing the health care needs of the patients and their families. The candidate will participate in admissions, discharges, and related duties. 

Please Note: This position is 40 hours per week. The incumbent will work on unit Cain 4 West on 3rd shift from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. Days off: Week 1: Monday/Saturday, Week 2: Sunday/Thursday.

Employees in this position will be required to perform mandatory overtime.

Duties and Responsibilities (these are a general summary and not all inclusive):

• Provides nursing care, custody and instruction to adult psychiatric patients on locked units within DMH.
• Acts as the Charge Nurse and delegates and oversees the completion of tasks of licensed and non-licensed nursing staff assigned to the unit for their shift.  
• Ensures that optimum quality care is provided by serving as patient advocate, ensuring that patient confidentiality and maintaining the rights of all patients.
• Gains the knowledge required to provide Patient Centered Care to all patients within the Recovery Model
• Identifies and addresses patient needs by performing nursing assessments, developing nursing interventions and providing nursing care by following professional, hospital, departmental standards.
• Acts as a role model for providing Recovery and Trauma informed care.
• Provides quality psychiatric care to the patients with respect to their needs as defined by the age specific population served.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of nursing.
• Knowledge of the terminology and standard abbreviations used in nursing.
• Knowledge of the problems in providing nursing services to special client groups such as the mentally, physically, and/or emotionally handicapped.
• Knowledge of the custodial care problems (personal hygiene, feeding) of special client groups such as the blind, the auditorily impaired, and the physically and/or mentally handicapped.
• Knowledge of the types and application of emergency medical procedures such as cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and tourniquets.
• Knowledge of the types and uses of monitory equipment used in providing nursing care, such as telemetry units, electrocardiograms, etc.
• Knowledge of human anatomy and physiology as applied to nursing.
• Knowledge of standard nursing policies, procedures, methods and techniques.
• Knowledge of the principles of physiological, psychological and emotional growth and development.
• Knowledge of the types and characteristics of drugs used in diagnosing, treating and controlling physical, mental and/or emotional disorders.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as physicians' orders and treatment plans.
• Ability to participate in a multi-disciplinary health care team.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of supervision, including planning and assigning work according to the nature of the job to be accomplished, the capabilities of subordinates and available resources; controlling work through periodic reviews and/or evaluatio