RN- Outpt psych (IOP)- PRN

JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION: Assists the physician in coordinating care appropriate for the needs for the age population served, as defined in the department’s scope of service and under the direction/supervision of the physician.

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

CRITERIA A: Everyday Excellence Values – Employee demonstrates Everyday Excellence values in the day-to-day performance of their job.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community.

• Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.

• Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.

• Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.

• Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.

• Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers.

CRITERIA B: Corporate Compliance – Employee demonstrates commitment to the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest Guidelines, and the GHS Corporate Compliance Guidelines.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.

• Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.

• Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.

CRITERIA C: Personal Achievement – Employee demonstrates initiative in achieving work goals and meeting personal objectives.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.

• Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.

• Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.

CRITERIA D: Performance Improvement – Employee actively participates in Performance Improvement activities and incorporates quality improvement standards in his/her job performance.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.

• Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.

• Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.

• Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.

CRITERIA E: Cost Management – Employee demonstrates effective cost management practices.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Effectively manages time and resources

• Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization — material, human, and financial.

• Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes.

CRITERIA F: Patient & Employee Safety – Employee actively participates in and demonstrates effective patient and employee safety practices.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.

• Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.

• Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.

• Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans.

• Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes.

JOB FUNCTIONS

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS include, but are not limited to:

1. Collects data essential to assessment and indicates deviations from normal to the physician.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Performs medication reconciliation as part of the clinical assessment on all new admissions and then ongoing during the course of treatment.

• Involves the patient, significant others and health care providers as appropriate.

• Identifies and coordinates the need for further assessment by discipline.

• Documents patient care assessments in the medical record.

• Responsible for completion of all patient care assignments while maintaining quality assurance standards.

• Consistently demonstrates clinical competence in nursing procedures and patient care.

2. Performs patient care and education according to the standards and the needs of the patient.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Facilitates patient groups as it relates to the clinical needs of the patient and as ordered by the psychiatrist. Such groups may include but are not limited to: activities of daily living, medication management, symptom management.

• Prints patient medication educational material from the intranet and provides to the patient.

• Answers patient questions as it relates to the educational material.

• Provides individualized patient education to patients.

• Assists physician during drug reconciliation day at the clinic for ongoing medication reconciliation.

• Calls in prescriptions to pharmacies as ordered per the physician.

• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary health care team to deliver patient care utilizing nursing practice standards.

• Maintains patient rights.

• Documents all patient/family education and ongoing assessments.

3. Performs all other duties as assigned.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

• Demonstrates an ability to perform a variety of duties, and maintains flexibility as patient care needs change.

• Demonstrates a consistently well-organized approach to all assigned activities.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

1 year psychiatric experience preferred

SPECIAL SKILL, LICENSE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

Current Louisiana RN licensure

HIPAA REQUIREMENTS:

Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Medical records without limitation both paper and electronic, patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient information related to surgery or appointment schedules, medical records related to quality/data, patient financial information, patient related complaints, information related to patient location, religious beliefs and/or public health records.

SAFETY REQUIREMENTS:

Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable safety practices appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps and linen, PPE, exposure control plans, hand washing, environment of care, and receiving orders for patients, and patient identification.