WSi Healthcare Personnel is seeking a compassionate and dependable Registered Nurse (RN) for 13- or 26-week contract assignment at Fort Logan Mental Health Hospital in Denver.
This role supports patients in a behavioral health setting, assisting with daily care and helping maintain a safe and supportive environment.
Ability to work days, evenings, nights, and weekends in a secure psychiatric facility
Minimum qualification: 1 year of experience in an inpatient psychiatric hospital.
Benefits:
- Opportunities for Contract Extensions.
- Daily Pay offered
If you are a dedicated RN looking for meaningful work and competitive pay, apply to this RN position today!
Responsibilities:
- Assesses plans, coordinates, provides, and evaluates nursing care of patients with psychiatric and medical conditions, documenting all pertinent data
- Utilizes nursing theory and concepts to develop nursing plans of care and therapeutic interventions to support patients’ recovery, such as individual counseling, psychoeducational and teaching groups, and milieu management
- Communicates the nursing plan of care to the interdisciplinary team
- Assures that appropriate documentation is completed and that essential information is shared from shift to shift and makes rounds to assess patients’ psychiatric and medical statuses
- Notifies medical staff (physicians and licensed independent practitioners) of changes in patient condition and need for evaluations and orders
- Reports patient care concerns to supervisor and physicians, as indicated
- Directs, coordinates, and implements medical and psychiatric crisis intervention in clinical emergencies, assuring compliance with nursing standards and policies/procedures (e.g., de-escalation, seclusion/restraint, cardiopulmonary resuscitation)
- May escort patients to activities and appointments on grounds and in the community, including driving patients to appointments
- Assumes responsibility for paperwork, assuring confidentiality
- Determines whether the needs of a patient returning from a general hospital can be safely met by the nursing staff in terms of staff competency, appropriate equipment and level of staffing during own shift and proximal shifts
- Collaborate with the Nurse Manager and treatment team; recommend a change in program scheduling to benefit patients
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