Job Description
Become a vital part of the Vancouver Island Health Authority as a Psychiatric Emergency Nurse. This full-time role delivers critical psychiatric emergency services and crisis intervention at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
This temporary assignment requires your expertise in conducting comprehensive assessments of mental and physical health in crisis situations. You will work within an interdisciplinary team, addressing patients with acute mental illness or addiction, and develop tailored care plans in collaboration with them, their families, and community services. Your role is pivotal to ensuring quality and safety within psychiatric emergency care.
Key Responsibilities:
• Respond to psychiatric emergency situations effectively
• Conduct thorough psychiatric and medical assessments
• Develop patient care and discharge plans collaboratively
• Utilize crisis intervention models and stabilization techniques
• Maintain communication with multidisciplinary teams, p...
This temporary assignment requires your expertise in conducting comprehensive assessments of mental and physical health in crisis situations. You will work within an interdisciplinary team, addressing patients with acute mental illness or addiction, and develop tailored care plans in collaboration with them, their families, and community services. Your role is pivotal to ensuring quality and safety within psychiatric emergency care.
Key Responsibilities:
• Respond to psychiatric emergency situations effectively
• Conduct thorough psychiatric and medical assessments
• Develop patient care and discharge plans collaboratively
• Utilize crisis intervention models and stabilization techniques
• Maintain communication with multidisciplinary teams, p...