Description
Purpose:Responsibilities:
- 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.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Nursing or related field required
- MSN preferred
- Two years psychiatric nursing experience preferred
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
ANCC certification as CNS or ANP preferred
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
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