Supports professional mental health care professionals, provides mental health care, including safety rounding, group and individual activities, attend to patient needs, and maintain safety milieu.
Requirements
- Communicates emphatically, respectfully and effectively with mentally ill patients and their families.
- Uses exemplary interpersonal skills and works effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrates a thorough understanding of client rights for mentally ill patients.
- Assists with admissions and orientation of new patients and discharge of current patients.
- Interacts with patients using therapeutic communication to alignment with care plan;
- Confers with the interdisciplinary team plan of care, collaborates, and communicates necessary information with the team.
- Facilitates and participates in group education sessions, huddles, departmental quality improvement projects, and mandatory educational sessions.
- Assists patients to and from wheelchairs and gurneys, and assists patients with ambulation.
- Transports patients to other areas of the hospital in wheelchair or gurneys while following the department safety policies.
- Collects and documents vital signs;
- Performs tasks of activities of daily living (bathing, grooming, other miscellaneous personal hygiene, eating, daily weights etc.).
- Intervenes and de-escalates patient physical confrontations or abusive verbal behavior using de-escalation techniques.
- Assists registered nurse in administering treatment and other nursing tasks as needed;
- Participates in promoting a healthful, safe, and therapeutic environment for patient and families;
- Participates in the implementation of patient care standards, infection control standards and quality assurance criteria.
- Completes shift report at bedside with the patient involved to the best of their ability.
- Participates in every shift huddle report to communicate any red flags and ensure efficient patient hand-off.
- Clean and organize workstations, aware and practice safety protocols of the department at all times.
- Actively engages with all department and hospital improvement projects.
- Demonstrates knowledge of management of assaultive behavior techniques
- Participates in the orientation of new employees
- Performs other duties as Assigned
Benefits
- Competitive hourly rate
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement Plan
