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REGISTERED NURSE 2* - 04092024- 56860
Estimated Pay | $31 per hour |
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Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
Location | Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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Job Information
State of Tennessee Job Information
Opening Date/Time04/09/2024 12:00AM Central TimeClosing Date/Time04/29/2024 11:59PM Central TimeSalary (Monthly)$4,450.00 - $6,658.00Salary (Annually)$53,400.00 - $79,896.00Job TypeFull-TimeCity, State LocationChattanooga, TNDepartmentMental Health and Substance Abuse Services
LOCATION OF (3) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH & SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, MOCCASIN BEND MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE DIVISION, HAMILTON COUNTY
Qualifications
Summary
Responsibilities
- Performs lifesaving emergency procedures (e.g., CPR, Heimlich maneuver).
- Rescues injured patients and/or escorts patients to appropriate areas during the event of an emergency.
- Provides basic and/or emergency/psychiatric medical assistance under the direct supervision of a licensed health care provider.
- Searches for and retrieves patients who are unaccounted for or who have left facility without authorization.
- Bathes, clothes, feeds and provides direct daily living care for patients.
- Calls for assistance to provide prompt medical intervention.
- Teaches patients to function at the highest daily living level possible through demonstration, one-on-one instruction, videos, or booklets.
- Promotes social interaction by encouraging patient participation in group activities and/or discussions.
- Escorts patients on field trips and medical appointments.
- Adjusts protective devices (e.g., helmets, mittens, spit masks) to ensure patient and staff safety.
- Answers signals or call lights to determine the need of the patient.
- Introduces the patient to other patients and the facility's staff.
Performing General Physical Activities:
- Restrains patients to prevent injuries to themselves and others.
- Moves, lifts, and/or transfers patients using sliding boards, wheel chairs, or other required equipment.
- Cleans the work area, supplies, and equipment to ensure a sanitary living environment.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events:
- Identifies problematic situations between staff and patients and takes appropriate corrective action (e.g., intervenes when a staff member is having difficulties interacting with a patient).
- Identifies patients at risk based on current assessment by medical professionals and follows established protocols for specific risks to ensure safety of patients and staff.
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material:
- Inspects patients' belongings, rooms and other patient areas to check for contraband, safety and health issues, equipment functioning, or other problems or issues.
- Inspects food trays to ensure the delivered items are consistent with the diet list for each patient.
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge:
- Maintains current information and adheres to the Health Information Portability and Privacy Act (HIPPA) and other regularity standards relevant to job duties.
- Attends annual and periodic in-service training to keep up-to-date on the latest methods and technologies relevant to job duties.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others:
- Explains HIPPA laws, patients' rights, and other information to patients, families, and/or conservators.
- Explains routine ancillary services during patient orientation.
- Explains admission, vital sign, and laboratory procedures to patients.
- Explains to patients the reason why they are leaving the institution grounds for off-campus trips or appointments.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems:
- Evaluates patients' functionality to determine the need for mobility assistance.
Communicating with Persons Outside Organization:
- Communicates with family members, service providers, and the general public to exchange information in accordance with HIPPA laws.
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings:
- Monitors patients during administration of medications and meals to assist in compliance with prescribed regimen.
- Monitors alarms and panic buttons to ensure safety of patients and staff.
- Monitors office and medical supplies to ensure that adequate quantities are on hand.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates:
- Meets with other staff daily to discuss patient behavior or any other hospital situations that have occurred.
- Reports to immediate supervisor observed progression or regression in patients that may indicate training/treatment need changes.
- Communicates to appropriate staff the patients' needs for interpreters or any other special services.
- Reports to immediate supervisor any safety or building maintenance problems to request repair of the problems.
Coaching and Developing Others:
- May mentor new staff by providing feedback and information on organizational culture, policies, and procedures, task prioritization, and other work-related information.
Scheduling Work and Activities:
- May ensure patients' secure transportation upon discharge.
- Contacts all appropriate personnel to notify them of any off-campus trips or appointments for patients.
Getting Information:
- Checks patients for the presence of injuries and/or contraband.
- Takes patients' vital signs upon admission.
- Observes patients for signs of distress (e.g., poor vital signs, level of consciousness, behavior outburst).
- Visually checks the physical condition of units for any possible safety hazards.
- Observes patients visually for changes in behavior or attitude indicating effective or ineffective training/treatment.
- Asks patients questions upon admission to identify food and/or medical allergies.
- Monitors the amount of clothing and personal items belonging to patients.
Documenting/Recording Information:
- Documents general changes in the patients' behavior (e.g., eating and sleeping patterns).
- Documents inspection of findings on body injury chart.
- Records key behaviors on flow sheet for patients in seclusion, restraints, and during unit checks.
- Fills out discharge paperwork by checking and initialing appropriate boxes/fields on the required forms.
- Labels and stores patients' personal belongings.
- Transcribes onto appropriate forms the hand-written orders from medical staff.
- Completes all required forms to gain approval to take patients from the facility for off-campus trips or appointments.
- Labels laboratory specimen transport containers to ensure proper handling of specimens.
- Records a personal item inventory for patients.
- Checks inventory sheets to ensure patients have their own belongings when being discharged.
- Records patient progress on institutional tracking forms.
- Assembles patient medical records appropriately by ensuring that all pieces of information are included and are in the correct order.
- Records procedures and/or tests performed on pre-printed logs.
- Fills out required forms to verify any money spent on patients' personal items.
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment:
- May operate a wheel-chair accessible vehicle or other State motor vehicle to drive patients to off-campus trips or appointments or to pick up needed supplies.
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public:
- Greets and interacts with visitors to determine the reason for their visit, document/authorize their visit, and/or direct to appropriate location.
Controlling Machines and Processes:
- Operates or assists in the operation of Hoyer lifts, scales, suction canisters, or other patient care equipment
- Operates copiers and scanners to create digital images of paper documents.
Interacting With Computers:
- Uses a computer (e.g., access the internet, use office productivity software, such as word processing, spreadsheet, or presentation programs) to process or obtain information, create documents, and communicate by email.
Processing Information:
- Enters and edits patient information in the health information database (e.g., Avatar system).
- Compares total patient count to bed availability to determine new admission availability.
- Orders medical and office supplies using an online ordering system.
- Disassembles discharged patients' charts and other medical information and submits to medical records staff.
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information:
- Estimates the quantities of resource materials needed to conduct treatment mall classes based on number of groups and number of participants in each group.
Handling and Moving Objects:
- Moves and unloads boxes of office and medical supplies to their correct storage location.
- Removes personal items and bed linens from patients' room upon discharge.
Competencies
- Customer Focus
- Integrity and Trust
- Listening
- Technical Learning
- Action Oriented
- Compassion
- Composure
- Patience
- Functional/Technical Competencies
- Time Management
- Written Communications
- Ethics and Values
Knowledge:
- Basic knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services, including customer needs assessment and meeting quality standards for services
- Basic knowledge of principles and methods for teaching and instruction for individuals and groups
- Basic knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, and other office procedures and terminology
Skills:
- Basic skill in managing one's own time
- Basic skill in using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
- Basic skill in understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents
- Basic skill in communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience
- Basic skill in understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making
- Basic skill in talking to others to convey information effectively
- Basic skill in giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times
- Basic skill in selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things
- Basic skill in adjusting actions in relation to others' actions
- Basic skill in teaching others how to do something
- Basic skill in actively looking for ways to help people
Abilities:
- Be physically able to perform assigned patient care tasks
- Be physically able to utilize approved crisis management techniques
- Ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears
- Basic ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
- Basic ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand
- Ability to speak clearly so others can understand
- Basic ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures
- Basic ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing
- Basic ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand
- Ability to identify and understand the speech of another person
Tools & Equipment
- Computer
- Electronic Devices
- General Office Equipment
- Various medical equipment and devices
TN Driver Standards
State of Tennessee positions that may involve driving responsibilities require candidates to meet the following minimum driver qualifications:
- A valid driver's license
- For the past five years, the candidate's driver record must not have record of the following violations: driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, more than 4 moving violations.
Please include your Driver's License Information under the Licenses and Certifications section of your application.
**Agencies may allow an exception based on other factors.