What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Nurse II- PRN- Assessment and Intervention Center Job Details | HHC position at Wishard-Eskenazi Health?
Division: Eskenazi Health
Sub-Division: SEMHC
Req ID: 24469
Schedule : PRN/Per Diem
Shift : Varied
Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, Indiana's first community mental health center, provides comprehensive care for emotional and behavioral problems, including severe mental illness and substance abuse. The Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center offers both inpatient and outpatient services, including several outreach centers as well as clinic- and community-based services.
FLSA Status
Non-Exempt
Job Role Summary
The PRN Assessment and Intervention Center (AIC) Staff Nurse II performs nursing services as a health team member in the AIC. This position independently functions as a practitioner and provides total care process, demonstrating problem-solving decision-making and critical-thinking skills. This position works collaboratively with physicians and other health professionals to implement treatments, dispense medications for withdrawal management, and give medication and injections in accordance with prescribed orders, and protocols for the AIC.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
Job Requirements
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
o Knowledge of disease processes and their treatment/prevention, basic science, current clinical protocol/nursing techniques, medication/drugs and their use/side effects, community resources' referrals, culture attitudes/custom appropriate departmental procedures and local/State/Federal laws/regulations.
o Skills in nursing, health assessment, health teaching/coaching
o Effective interpersonal communications.
o Skill to provide care appropriate to the age of clients served.
o Ability to use appropriate communication skills.
o Ability to use age appropriate cognitive abilities, skills, techniques and communications are detailed in the department/area/unit job specific/age specific competencies.
o Follow directions, prioritize duties and be flexible.
o Work efficiently in stressful situation and use professional judgment.
o Apply problem-solving methodologies, tech, motivate clients, display sensitivity, empathy, appropriate response to culture patterns, differences.
Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center's primary mission is to serve individuals with serious mental illness and chronic addiction as well as seriously emotionally disturbed children and their families. Patients of all ages are welcomed, from children to seniors, with a philosophy of care that stresses strength-based and family- and community-centered treatment utilizing the Recovery Model of treatment.