RN Clinical Nurse II - Behavioral Emergency Response Team

Description

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The Behavioral Emergency Response Team (BERT) provides a prompt response to situations where patients, visitors, or staff who exhibit acute behavioral changes with at-risk behavior. To contain the situation, protect the patient, visitor, staff member, or others in the vicinity, BERT team members collaborate with healthcare providers, hospital security, and nursing teams and obtain necessary medical and/or psychiatric attention for the affected individual. The BERT team consists of a Registered Nurse (RN) and Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) team, available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week. These team members respond to incidents in all inpatient areas, the emergency department, lobbies, and hospital-based outpatient clinics.

Summary

Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.

The BERT team Registered Nurse (RN) responds to all behavioral emergencies, provides consultation, safety assessments, de-escalation, restrictive interventions, staff recommendations for patient/environmental management, reviews medication records, updates the plan of care, and serves as a liaison with the primary care and behavioral health consult teams. Additional duties may include patient monitoring and documentation, validation of involuntary commitment documentation, and other direct patient care and clerical duties, as needed.

Responsibilities

1. Education - Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self. Attends education programs based on identified learning needs. With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population. Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers. Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.

2. Evaluation of Care - Identifies expected patient outcomes. Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care. Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care. Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.

3. Implementation - Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care. Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan. Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care. Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs. Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.

4. Leadership - With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations. Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor. Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration. Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities. Effectively uses communication systems. Participates in promoting cost-effective care. Gives feedback to co-workers. Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment. Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.

5. Patient Assessment - Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs. Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others. Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families. Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.

6. Planning - Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care. Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care. Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning. Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care. Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.

7. Research - Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice. Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.

Other Information

Other information

Education Requirements:

? Graduation from a school of professional nursing.

? If hired after January 6, 2014, must be enrolled within four years of employment, and obtain a Bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a Master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of employment date.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

? Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.

? Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification and crisis prevention certification (within 60 days of hire).

Professional Experience Requirements:

? One (1) year of nursing experience. A minimum of two years of behavioral health experience is required.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: Rex ED Overhead

Work Type: Per Diem

Standard Hours Per Week: 6.00

Salary Range: $30.75 - $37.80 per hour (Minimum to Midpoint)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Variable

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.