What are the responsibilities and job description for the MSH NR PSYCH K6 REGISTRY RN position at Health eCareers?
Registered Nurse ‐ Psychiatric Department (Registry)
The Albert J. Lurie Psychiatric Unit (6 East) is a 28‐bed adult inpatient acute psychiatric unit for patients 18 years of age and older admitted voluntarily or involuntarily with a primary diagnosis of acute mental illness and present as a danger to self and/or others. The most common psychiatric diagnoses we treat include depression, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar affect disorder.
We provide our patients with a safe and therapeutic treatment environment. We reintegrate patients into the community in the safest and most appropriate setting and with links to the most appropriate outpatient treatment resources. Services we offer include multi‐disciplinary assessment and treatment, psychotropic medication management, group activities, activities of daily living, therapeutic milieu, electroconvulsive treatment and linkage to outpatient services.
Multi‐disciplinary treatment involves a medical director, attending psychiatrists, internist, advance practice nurses, registered nurses, mental health workers, unit secretaries, occupational therapist, activities coordinator, Thresholds hospital liaison staff, patient care coordinator and unit director.
General Summary
The Albert J. Lurie Psychiatric Unit (6 East) is a 28‐bed adult inpatient acute psychiatric unit for patients 18 years of age and older admitted voluntarily or involuntarily with a primary diagnosis of acute mental illness and present as a danger to self and/or others. The most common psychiatric diagnoses we treat include depression, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar affect disorder.
We provide our patients with a safe and therapeutic treatment environment. We reintegrate patients into the community in the safest and most appropriate setting and with links to the most appropriate outpatient treatment resources. Services we offer include multi‐disciplinary assessment and treatment, psychotropic medication management, group activities, activities of daily living, therapeutic milieu, electroconvulsive treatment and linkage to outpatient services.
Multi‐disciplinary treatment involves a medical director, attending psychiatrists, internist, advance practice nurses, registered nurses, mental health workers, unit secretaries, occupational therapist, activities coordinator, Thresholds hospital liaison staff, patient care coordinator and unit director.
General Summary
- Functions in multidisciplinary team to provide safe milieu management, medication administration and coordination of care of acute and chronic mentally ill adults
- Creates, manages, and updates patient's care plan with care team
- Provides crisis de‐escalation for patient with acute agitation
- Conducts patient groups based on unit curriculum
- Coordinates safe discharge linkage in as established in patient's care plan
- 403 b Tax Sheltered Retirement
