• Attend a minimum of 6 educational meetings offered within Institute or Outside Program
• Provides routinely scheduled staff education on clinical issues
• Role Models professional practice
• Participates in on-going review and development and provision of Group Programming for the unit
• Have knowledge of psychiatric diagnoses and be able to differentiate diagnosis on assigned patients.
• Participates in interdisciplinary meetings and other activities
• Monitors psychiatric, medical, psychosocial status of assigned team.
• Maintains professional communication with multidisciplinary team members
• Coordinates patient follow-up discharge plans and medical plans with Social Work and Primary Medicine respectively.
• Actively participates in treatment team meetings.
• Has good organizational skills that leads to effective time management.
• Attend a minimum of 2 unit based inservices yearly
• Provides education and consultation regarding psychiatric treatment, management, and psychopharmacology for staff
• Completes documentation according to established policies and in timely fashion
• Acts as liaison between disciplines, departments, and hospitals for assigned patients
• Maintain competency requirements
• Coordinates daily care for assigned team
• Utilize up to date practices/information in delivery of patient care
• Rounds daily on team of assigned patients and/or discuss patients with treatment team
• Initiates or reviews admission paperwork of all assigned patients
• Provides patient/family education around psychiatric medication/diagnosis as needed.
• Coordinates and facilitates with MD and treatment team direct admissions and DEC admissions as assigned
• Able to interface with various members of multidisciplinary team members to coordinate all aspects of patient care.
• Leads routine therapeutic patient groups
• Assesses client from holistic perspective.

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