Licensed Psychiatric Technician/Senior Behavioral Unit/Mesa Vista/PT Days
- Mesa Vista Hospital
- Day
- Regular
Hours:
Shift Start Time:
7 AMShift End Time:
3:30 PMAWS Hours Requirement:
Additional Shift Information:
Weekend Requirements:
Every OtherOn-Call Required:
NoHourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):
$25.966 - $32.457 - $38.948The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.
What You Will Do
Performs individualized nursing care for patients/families under the direction of an RN. Uses and practices basic assessment data collection, participates in planning, executes interventions in accordance with the plan of care and contributes to evaluation of outcomes. Communicates to ensure patient/family educated plan of care and planned treatments.
Required Qualifications
- Other Graduate of a licensed psychiatric technician program
- California Psychiatric Technician (PT License) - CA Board of Vocational Nursing & Psychiatric Technicians -REQUIRED
- AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous acute care psychiatric experience
Essential Functions
- Act as a mentor
Gives constructive feedback to peers regarding work performance and notifies supervisor of on-going performance issues.
Provides unit specific information to students, floats, travelers/registry personnel and documents appropriately.
Documents informal teaching. - Assessment data
Documents assessment data.
Communicates data to RN to support collaborative identification of patient needs/goals. - Collaboration
Delegates/assigns care/work to other healthcare team members within their scope of practice and competency to perform.
Communicates with other healthcare team members to coordinate patient care activities, workflow, and patient progress.
Follows through with identified actions/referrals. - Communication
Recognizes barriers to communication with the patient and family and seeks interdisciplinary expertise to establish a therapeutic relationship. - Documentation
Communicates patient and family care needs through documentation per department/entity guideline of care and policies and procedures. - Goal evaluation
Collects data indicative of patient/family response to care per department guidelines.
Reports data/information to team members in determining the need to alter goals and interventions.
Contributes observations and data to patient care conferences.
Documents patients' response to care. - Implements plan of care
Implements plan of care per department guidelines: Refers practices outside of scope to RN.
Seeks out resources when appropriate in new situations.
Collaborates with RNs when nursing decisions required in implementation of the plan of care in accordance with compliance and scope of practice. - Multidisciplinary plan of care
Demonstrates understanding of patient/family goals.
Makes recommendations to the multidisciplinary team in development of the patient's plan of care.
Updates written plan of care (IPOC) per direction of RN. - Patient advocate
Serves as a patient advocate through encouraging patient and family participation in decision making and acting to uphold individual/family rights. - Patient and family education
Identifies learning needs including barriers/readiness.
Collaborates with the RN in development of individualized teaching plan.
Implements plan of care (IPOC & IPER) using appropriate resources.
Collects data indicative of patient/family learning in response to teaching plan.
Collaborates with RN in evaluates patient/family learning through use of adult-learning theory and revises plan as appropriate. (e.g. documented in IPER, IPOC, discharge teaching, etc.)
Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class
Other; California Psychiatric Technician (PT License) - CA Board of Vocational Nursing & Psychiatric Technicians; AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association
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