Registered Nurse-Mental Health
Company: Allina Health Systems
Location: Saint Paul
Posted on: August 5, 2022
Job Description:
Date Posted:
July 27, 2022
Posting Expiration Date:
August 04, 2022
Department:
34004171 5940 Psych Adolescent
Shift:
Day/Evening (United States of America)
Shift Length:
Hours Per Week:
32
Union Contract:
MNA-12-United RN
Weekend Rotation:
Every Other
Job Summary:
Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human response to actual
or potential health problems. This includes establishing an
intentional therapeutic relationship between a registered nurse and
a patient and family. As a leader and the integrator of care, the
professional nurse has the responsibility, authority, and
accountability for planning, coordinating and evaluating the
patient's care needs.
Specializes in working with individuals, families, and groups with
a focus on mental health. May work in a variety of settings
including hospitals, clinics and the community.
Key Position Details:
0.8 (32hr/week) position, rotating day/evening position
8hr shifts
Every other weekend
MNA contract position
RN will rotate to the ED mental health suite as a part of a normal
rotation. Additional training will be provided to RN once they have
been on the unit for 6 months and there is a need in the ED.
Job Description:
Principle Responsibilities
- Assessment.
- Collects, prioritizes and synthesizes comprehensive data
pertinent to the patient's health or situation.
- Collects and prioritizes data in a systematic and ongoing
process that involves the patient, family, other health care
providers and environment as appropriate.
- Integrates data relevant to the situation to identify needs,
patterns and variances.
- Uses appropriate evidence based assessment techniques and
instruments in data collection.
- Diagnosis.
- Analyzes assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses.
- Interprets assessment information to identify each patient's
needs relative to age, developmental stage and culture.
- Formulates, revises and resolves nursing diagnoses that reflect
the current patient status.
- Validates and communicates nursing diagnoses with the patient,
family and other health care team members.
- Documents nursing diagnoses in compliance with the patient care
guidelines.
- Outcomes Identification.
- Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the
patient.
- Establishes, in the collaboration with the family, patient,
realistic and measurable patient expected outcomes based on nursing
diagnoses, patients present and potential capabilities, goals,
available resources and plan for continuity of care.
- Planning.
- Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain
expected outcomes.
- Develops an individualized plan considering patient
characteristics or the situation as appropriate in conjunction with
the patient, family and others.
- Establishes a plan that provides for continuity of care.
- Incorporates evidence based nursing practice takes into
consideration current statutes, rules and regulations when
developing the plan of care.
- Implementation.
- Implements the identified plan.
- Implements interventions in a safe, timely, appropriate
manner.
- Utilizes evidence-based interventions and treatments specific
to the diagnoses as appropriate.
- Coordinates implementation of the plan of care if
appropriate
- Documents interventions according to documentation
guidelines.
- Evaluation.
- Evaluates the patient's progress towards attainment of the
outcome.
- Evaluates the patient's/family's understanding of and response
to the plan of care.
- Utilizes systematic and ongoing assessment data to revise
diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care.
- Involves the patient, family, and health care team members in
the evaluation process when appropriate.
- Documents revisions in diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care
according to documentation guidelines.
- Quality of Practice.
- Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of
nursing practice.
- Participates in quality improvement activities related to
nursing practice.
- Incorporates available QI data to improve nursing practice and
outcome.
- Education.
- Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing
practice.
- Participates in educational activities related to nursing
practice.
- Acquires and applies the knowledge gained from educational
experiences to current nursing practice.
- Professional Practice Evaluation.
- Evaluates one's own nursing practice in relation to
professional practice standards and regulatory guidelines.
- Engages in self-evaluation of practice on a regular basis,
identifying strengths and goals for professional development.
- Obtains informal feedback regarding one's own practice from
patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others.
- Collegiality.
- Contributes to the professional development of peers,
colleagues, and others.
- Shares knowledge and skills in practice settings.
- Provides immediate and ongoing positive and constructive
feedback to colleagues regarding their performance.
- Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment.
- Collaboration.
- Collaborates with patient, family, and others in the conduct of
nursing practice.
- Partners with others to effect change and generate positive
outcomes through knowledge of the patient or situation.
- Ethics.
- Acts in an ethical manner.
- Maintains a therapeutic and professional patient-nurse
relationship with appropriate professional role boundaries.
- Serves as a patient advocate assisting patients in developing
skills for self-advocacy
- Uses available resources to help formulate ethical
decisions.
- Research.
- Integrates research findings in practice.
- Utilizes the best evidence, including research findings, to
guide practice decisions.
- Resource Utilization.
- Incorporates factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost,
and impact on practice in planning and delivering patient
care.
- Utilizes resources related to standards of care in a safe,
effective and ethical manner.
- Manages resources to assure they will be accessible to other in
the future.
- Leadership.
- Provides leadership in the professional practice setting and
the profession.
- Functions as a professional role model.
- Promotes a positive work environment.
- Participates in shared decision-making.
- Environmental Health.
- Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
- Attains knowledge of environmental health concepts, such as
implementation of environmental health strategies.
- Promotes a practice environment that reduces environmental
health risks for workers and healthcare consumers.
- Communicates environmental health risks and exposure reduction
strategies to healthcare consumers, families, colleagues and
communities.
- Charge Nurse (only when acting in this role).
- Demonstrates ability to coordinate and direct unit operation so
the patient and family needs are met and resources are efficiently
utilized in a safe manner.
- Promotes an environment that encourages individual growth,
nurtures professional practice and fosters teamwork.
- Collaborates effectively with unit staff, leadership and other
disciplines.
- Preceptor (only when acting in this role).
- Demonstrates ability to identify the orientee's learning needs
and plans appropriate learning experiences.
- Demonstrates ability to implement an individualized orientation
plan for the orientee.
- Demonstrates ability to validate clinical competence of
orientee.
- Facilitates development of organizational and prioritization
skills of orientee.
- Demonstrates ability to evaluate interpersonal sills of
orientee.
- Serves as a professional role model.
- Facilitated socialization of orientee into the organization and
work group.
- Other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
- Metro Hospitals (Abbott Northwestern, Mercy including Unity
campus, United and St. Francis): INTERNAL APPLICANTS must have
Associate's degree or Bachelor's degree required. EXTERNAL
APPLICANTS in Specialty areas (ICU, Mom/Baby, ED, OR/Procedural
areas and Mental Health) must have Bachelor's degree, or
Associate's degree in nursing with at least one year of experience
required. In Non-Specialty areas, Bachelor's degree required.
- Community Hospitals (Buffalo, Cambridge, Owatonna, Faribault,
Regina, New Ulm, and River Falls): INTERNAL APPLICANTS must have
Associate's degree or Bachelor's degree required. EXTERNAL
APPLICANTS in Specialty areas (ICU, Mom/Baby, ED, OR/Procedural
areas and Mental Health) must have Associate's degree with one year
of applicable experience required. In Non-Specialty areas,
Bachelor's degree preferred, Associate's degree required.
- Less than 2 years RN experience required
- May consider new graduate RN
- Less than 2 years mental health experience preferred
- Licensed Registered Nurse - MN Board of Nursing required if
working in the state of MN upon hire or
- Licensed Registered Nurse - WI Dept of Safety & Professional
Services required if working in the state of WI upon hire and
- BLS Tier 1 - Basic Life Support - Multisource required by
completion of orientation
- CARN Certified Addictions Registered Nurse preferred or
- RN-BC Mental Health preferred or
- RN-BC Gerontology preferred
Leadership Capabilities
- See the Big Picture: Know where we are going as an
organization. Use sound judgement and critical thinking to make
good decisions that support our mission.
- I know where Allina is going and how my role fits into this
picture
- I capture important lessons and share them to foster
innovation
- I am good at anticipating the implications of my decisions
- I understand and apply the disciplines of continuous
improvement
- Inspire Greatness: Inspire others by connecting their purpose
to the broader mission. Lead others through change and celebrate
success.
- I help my team connect to the broader mission
- I see and fulfill my role in motivating the team around me
- I celebrate success and help my partners see what is possible
with change
- I call out and address unexpected roadblocks or problems
- Foster Learning and Growth: Role model growth, ongoing
development and self-care. Empower, coach and encourage others to
be at their best selves.
- I role-model self-care and ongoing development
- I share my knowledge and coach others to foster growth and
success
- I demonstrate enthusiasm for learning
- I candidly advocate for the resources I need
- I support my colleagues in their development and growth
- Deliver Excellence: Set and align clear goals, measure results,
and continually improve safety, quality, experience, and
innovation.
- I take ownership of outcomes and fulfillment of goals
- I facilitate adjustments to assure positive results
- I work with a sense of urgency, concern and determination
- I use well-grounded approaches to create sustainable solutions
repeatedly
- I engage and foster improvements to impact safety, quality, and
efficiency
- Succeed Together: Connect with others authentically. Recognize
the value of each individual and seek diverse points of view.
Collaborate to succeed together.
- I consider how decisions might impact my colleagues
- I am generous in my commitment to supporting the needs of my
partners
- I respect others' opinions, praise good work and encourage all
team members to be involved
- I seek common ground and work to create mutually beneficial
outcomes
Functional Competencies
- Analytical Thinking: Diagnoses issues using a systematic and
methodical approach.
- Problem Solving: Asseses circumstances using experience and a
variety of information gathered.
- Functional Knowledge: Expertise in his/her discipline and
understands these concepts in other disciplines.
- Company Knowledge: Understands how his/her role relates to
others on the team and the role of the team.
- Communication Skills: Advanced communication skills involving
complicated topics.
Physical Demands
Medium Work*:
Lifting weight Up to 32 lbs. occasionally (*Allina Safe Patient
Moving Policy), Up to 25 lbs. frequently
Keywords: Allina Health Systems, St. Paul , Registered Nurse-Mental Health, Healthcare , Saint Paul, Minnesota
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