Psychiatric Staff Nurse

Position Summary:

Complete any orders given by TCN providers. Contributes to the daily operations and productivity of the Psychiatric Services unit.

Key Responsibilities:

• Dispenses central pharmacy in conjunction with and at the time of the client’s visit and monitors all central pharmacy transactions to a degree of 100% accuracy.
• Maintains current tracking systems for injections, medication boxes and treatment plans.
• Triages current clients who are having problems or questions regarding prescribed medication and maintains 100% accurate documentation of client contacts.
• Provides accurate and complete verbal and written instructions for all medications prescribed by the psychiatrist during the client’s visit.
• Receives and manages telephone orders from the psychiatrist and sends them in to the pharmacy as per the psychiatrist’s orders.
• Provides services in the client’s natural environment if needed.
• Maintains awareness of indigent care medication programs from various drug companies and assists clients in application for those programs.
• Contributes to the development and maintenance of treatment plans.
• Facilitates training for other TCN staff for monitored client self-administration of medication.
• Meets standards pertaining to services provided.
• Accumulates the required number of billable hours of clinically allocated time based on Agency standards for position and profession.
• Meets standards pertaining to documentation.

• Documentation will provide sufficient reasoning for the type, frequency, and duration of services provided.
• Progress Notes and other documentation clearly identifies consumer’s input in services by having consumer’s and parent’s/guardian’s (if applicable) signatures when clinically appropriate.
• Completes progress notes at the end of each session and turns them in within 24 hours of completion.

• Maintains license or registration appropriate to profession and appropriate to job requirement, including appropriate amount of continuing education at all times of employment.
• Remains free from citations by other providers or by consumers for unethical practice and meets standard for own profession.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: At minimum, degree required by State of Ohio for RN; at minimum High School Diploma/GED AND LPN Diploma required for LPN.
• Experience: One to two years in behavioral health care field preferred
• Certification: RN or LPN required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge of: Safety rules and procedures, agency policy and procedures, area resources.

Skills: Computer literacy, interpersonal skills, communication skills, assessment skills.

Ability to: Lifting to twenty-five pounds, use of computer keyboard, sitting for periods of time, communicating information clearly, ability to recognize unusual or threatening conditions related to persons with disabilities.