Psychiatric Nurse

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conducts intake assessments through interviews with patients and relatives to gather case history.
• Plans and provides nursing care for patients.
• Makes nursing diagnosis of the medical and emotional status of patients and recommendtreatment options.
• Consults with psychiatrists and other behavioral health staff in designing appropriate treatment plans for clients.
• Administers and notes reactions to psychotropic drugs and other medications.
• Arranges further medical attention when necessary.
• Assists the client in understanding the nature of emotional disturbances and accepting the need for treatment.
• Assists in maintaining a safe and secure environment for staff and patients.
• Test for vital signs of pain and ensures treatments of pain.
• Documents all patient information on medical charts and follows physician’s written orders.
• Maintains patient confidentiality.
• Maintains accurate records and documentation of patient treatments, immunizations and laboratory results according to standard medical record keeping.
• Performs administrative assignments such as filing, answering phones, typing, and completing progress notes in the filing system.
• Provides courteous, high quality service to patients and members of the public by personal responding to requests for service or making appropriate referral.

• Professional nursing principles, procedures, and techniques used in the care and treatment of psychiatric patients, Social, psychological, and physical factors of mental and emotional disorders.
• Medical and psychological terminology.
• Medications, including psychotropic drugs, and effects on psychiatric patients.
• Control, preparation and administration of medications.
• Regulations pertaining to psychiatric nursing and the treatment of the mentally and emotionally
• disturbed patients.
• Theories, principles, and techniques of group and individual psychotherapy.
• Symptoms and behavior patterns of emotionally disturbed mentally ill patients.
• Medical and psychiatric emergency procedures.
• Basic computer programs.

Ability to;

• Apply professional nursing care principles and procedures in the evaluation and treatment of psychiatric patients.
• Develop interpersonal therapeutic relationships with psychiatric patients.
• Keep accurate written charts and records of patient activities and progress.
• Comply with laws, rules, regulations, protocols, and procedures.
• Use professional judgment to ascertain and to apply appropriate intervention techniques with patients in crisis.
• Communicate effectively with a variety of individuals and function calmly in situations, which require a high degree of sensitivity, tact, and diplomacy.
• Provide prompt, efficient, and responsive service.
• Exercise appropriate judgment in answering questions and releasing information; analyze and project consequences of decisions and/or recommendations.
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing.

Typical Working Conditions

• Work is normally performed in an office environment. Interaction with clients requires adaptability when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or potentially dangerous situations.
• May be subjected to verbal and physical abuse from patients and exposed to contagious diseases.

Typical Physical Requirements

• Requires the ability to sit at a desk for long periods of time and intermittently walk, stand, stoop, kneel, crouch and reach while performing office duties: lift and/or move light weights; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls.
• Must be able to maintain effective audio, visual difference and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating office equipment. 

Please note:

• This position is open only to Ugandan nationals
• The deadline for receiving applications is June 21st 2019
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis