What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psychiatric Nurse Program Director position at Freedom Magnolia?
The Psychiatric Nurse Manager will supervise the 14-bed senior adult DPU unit.
He/she will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the delivery of psychiatric nursing care. He/she provides managerial support to the Director of Nurses by providing supervision and evaluation of all nursing personnel. He/she contributes to the program, nursing, and the Hospital through support of nursing and program philosophy and objectives to meet the psychiatric program need.
Duties:
- Collaborate with the medical and clinical staff in coordinating and managing the medical and psychosocial treatment plan.
- Provides input in formulating patient care policies, procedures, and nursing care standards for establishing effective treatment plans.
- Ensures continuity of nursing care based on the knowledge of clinical nursing needs and the patients’ individual treatment plans.
- Supervises all nursing activities related to patient care and sets guidelines for accurate reporting and recording or patient’s symptoms, reactions, and progress.
- Administers nursing care to patients as needed, to maintain clinical skills, assesses patient requirement and/or provide clinical support to the staff nurses in knowledgeable and competent manner.
- Attends interdisciplinary team meetings to ensure the delivery of quality patient care.
- Monitors Quality Assurance and identifies areas for improvement with regular performance improvement measures.
- Develops patient monitoring measures to accommodate volume of referrals.
- Ensures nursing staff completes duties regarding the highest quality of care especially with treatment plans, initial nursing assessments, skin assessments, daily rounds, fall assessments, nutritional screenings, and discharge planning.
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