LINES OF AUTHORITY: This position is supervised bythe Nursing Manager. Supervises shiftstaff of Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN's) and Human Service Workers (HSW's) in Pathways.

POSITION SUMMARY: Provide care and safety to patientsin Pathways. Care includes dispensing medications as ordered by Mohave MentalHealth Clinic (MMHC) Behavioral HealthMedical Practitioner (BHMP), performing Accu-Cheks, providing a therapeutic andeducational program via educational protocols, obtaining blood and urinesamples as ordered, and supervising staff LPN's and HSW's in the performance oftheir duties.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Provides care and safety to patients admitted to Pathways.
2. Makes assignments for the staff each day.
3. Monitors Pathways daily for compliance of safety issuesand infection control. Ensures that needs on the treatment plan are addressedfor each patient during their shift.
4. Registered Nurse Supervisors are to work as a team andensure that all rules and regulations for both patients and staff are adheredto.
5. Provides customer service to internal and externalcustomers and stakeholders. Participates in the Performance Improvementprocesses of MMHC and Pathways.
6. Ensures that Treatment Plan and Treatment PlanReview(s) are current and address patient specific needs, problems, and goals.
7. The employee must work well under pressure, meetingmultiple, and sometimes conflicting, deadlines. The employee shall, at all times, demonstrate cooperative behavior withcolleagues and supervisors.
8. Coordinate admissions with referral sources, includingsurrounding hospitals and outpatient clinics.
9. Performs other duties as assigned. 
10. Able to effectively de-escalate patients usingtechniques as trained and outlined in approved crisis intervention models.

PRIMARY CONTACTS:

• Interaction with patients and theirfamilies/significant others, peers, subordinates and other community medicalstaff.

POSITION REQUISITES:

Qualifications and Experience:

• Current and valid Arizona Board of RegisteredNurses license and CPR Certification.
• Excellent health with no physical limitations.
• No convictions for felonies or misdemeanorinvolving substance abuse, sexual misbehavior or assault.
• State of Arizona Department of Public Safety FingerprintClearance. Lack of clearance status as per licensing standard is grounds forimmediate dismissal.
• 21 years of age or older.
• R.N. must be able to calibrate and perform Accu-Cheksas per MMHC policy, which includes doing a return demonstration in orientationand annually thereafter.
• R.N. must be able to do lab draws per MMHCpolicy, which includes doing a return demonstration in orientation and annuallythereafter.

Preferred:

• 1-3 years experience in Psychiatric HealthNursing

Skills/Abilities

Required:

• Possess excellent implementation planning skills
• Possessgood problem identification skills.
• Possessexcellent time management skills.
• Possessability to implement management of personnel resources skills.
• Possessexcellent social perceptiveness skills.
• Possessexcellent active learning skills.
• Possessgood learning strategies skills.
• Possessgood monitoring skills.
• Possessgood writing skills.
• Possessexcellent critical thinking skills.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS: Persons conductingassessments and/or providing treatment and/or supervision for specialpopulations are able, through training and experience as well as throughagency-specific observation or competency testing of performance to:

Substance Use

Staff responsible for providingservices to substance using members has appropriate training, education,experience, performance and demonstrate competency.

Staff must be able to gather andassess information about:

• The relationship of each member's physicalstatus to the dependence.
• The nature of the emotional compulsion to usealcohol and/or other drugs.
• The intensity of the member's preoccupation withusing alcohol and/or other drugs.

Staff must also demonstratecompetency in their ability to:

• Interpret information about a member's use ofalcohol and/or other drugs.
• Develop a written summary and/or treatment planbased on member's problems and needs;
• Provide appropriate services.

SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL

Staff responsible forproviding services to seriously mentally ill members has appropriate training,education, experience, performance and demonstrate competency.

• Staff has knowledge and ability to gather andinterpret information about seriously mentally ill members.
• Staff understands the member's needs and therange, intensity, and duration of care, habilitation and rehabilitationrequired.

INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED

Staff responsible for providingservices to members with intellectual disabilities has appropriate training,education, experience, performance and demonstrate competency.

• Staff has knowledge and ability to gather andinterpret information about a member with an intellectual disability.
• Staff understands the member's needs and therange, intensity, and duration of care, habilitation or rehabilitationrequired.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Physical Requirements:

• Able to sit, stand and walk for extended periods of time.
• Occasional lifting (5-10 lbs) and reaching.
• Able to read and understand chart documents andother written communications.
• Position may require assisting patients inambulating, eating, and activities of daily living or assisting other medicalstaff in the installation of restraints.

Equipment Operation

• Telephone, fax, copier, preferred Windows officeprograms, blood spinner, weigh scales, sphygmomanometer, audio/visual equipment(TV, VCR, DVD), washer and dryer, microwave, dishwasher, lab printer, andAccu-Chek.

Environmental Conditions

• Air conditioned and/or heated work environment.

Accommodation(s)

Mohave Mental Health Clinic will provide reasonable accommodationfor individuals with disabilities, unless it would cause undue hardship. We define reasonable accommodation as anychange in the work environment or in the way a job is performed that enables aperson with a disability to enjoy equal employment opportunities. We will make a good faith effort to list anyspecial requirements in our job descriptions.