Registered Nurse - Crisis Stabilization Unit
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As a Registered Nurse in the Crisis Stabilization Unit, you will provide essential care to patients, educating them on mental and medical conditions, and offering emotional support to patients and their families.
Responsibilities
- Treat patients
- Educate patients about mental and medical conditions
- Provide advice and emotional support to patients and/or family members
- Run therapeutic groups
- Perform psychiatric crisis intervention
- Perform seclusion and restraint of patients
- Record patients’ medical histories and symptoms
- Help to perform diagnostic tests and analyze results
- Operate medical machinery
- Administer treatment and medications
- Help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation
- Teach patients and their families how to manage their illness or injury, diet and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and physical therapy
Requirements
- Current and valid State license as a Registered Nurse
- BLS upon hire and maintain current
- Working knowledge of Mental Health Laws and practice standards
- Working knowledge of interdisciplinary treatment team process, behavioral health programming and daily nursing functions for inpatient and outpatient behavioral health units
- Working knowledge of the continuum of care for behavioral health care
- Behavioral Violence Prevention within 6 months of hire and maintain current annually
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About Paradise Valley Hospital
Paradise Valley Hospital is the South Bay’s oldest hospital, providing comprehensive healthcare services including the San Diego Spine & Joint Center, an acute rehabilitation center, and behavioral health services.