Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Weekly Pay with Benefit Options
Shifts Available w /rotating schedule and Overtime offered:
- 6:00 am - 2:00pm,
- 2:00 pm - 10:00 pm
*6-month Minimum Contract Assignment with Option to Extend
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Performs moderate to complex patient service work. This includes routine and emergency care, treatment, and training for people with intellectual disabilities in a residential setting.
- Performs health assessments campus-wide
- Responds to medical emergencies on campus
- Communicates health status/needs to other disciplines, families as needed
- Provides personnel management to subordinate [sic] nursing staff
- Delegates work assignments
- Evaluates employees performance
- Complies with all State/Federal/Local standards
- Demonstrates thorough knowledge of the nursing process and nursing procedures
- Actively participates in meetings related to care of persons served in order to manage and coordinate health care to achieve optimal health
- Demonstrates knowledge of medications administered in order to identify desired effects or adverse reactions
- Demonstrates knowledge of safety and infection control practices to ensure a safe working environment
- Provide treatment to in-house employees injured in course and scope of employment
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, OR REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED:
- Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Texas (or a state that recognizes reciprocity through the Nurse Licensure Compact)
- Current CPR certification
- Valid Photo ID
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
- Comprehensive knowledge of nursing procedures and practices and of the Texas Nursing Practice Act, Rules and Regulations of the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas
- Ability to identify nursing interventions appropriate to the population served
- Ability to manage and take a leadership role in managing emergencies
- Ability to communicate effectively with other staff members to provide effective clinical supervision or to relay concerns about the patient to other team members
- Ability to teach others the principles of psychiatric nursing and maintenance of the therapeutic milieu
- Experience with direct patient care in a residential setting
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