Part-Time Head Nurse (Benefit Eligible)

In a state agency this class is accountable for administrative and clinical supervision of professional nurses, paraprofessionals and other staff involving direct nursing care of patients/individuals or performing specialized professional nursing work in the areas of community or therapeutic nursing. At the State Universities or State Vocational Technical Schools this class is accountable for providing primary nursing care for students and facility staff.

WORKING LEAD:

• Schedules, assigns, oversees and reviews work;
• Maintains and promotes standards of nursing;
• Plans unit workflow and determines priorities;
• Leads the planning of care and implementation of the nursing process;
• May make recommendations on policies and standards;
• May serve as Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional;
• Participates in interdisciplinary meetings to promote and ensure adjustment and continuity of patient/individual care programs;
• Performs related duties as required.
• Responds to emergencies;
• Conducts or assist in conducting performance evaluations;
• Leads professional and paraprofessional nursing staff in provision of patient/individual care;
• Instructs staff regarding policies and procedures;
• Identifies staff development needs;
• Makes recommendations for personnel actions such as selection, discipline and performance;
• Provides staff training and assistance;
• Ensures controlled drugs are properly stored, administered and ordered;
• May prepare reports or correspondence;

DIRECT CARE:

• Maintains records of stored and secured medications;
• May conduct patient/individual centered conferences with nursing personnel;
• Participates in individual, group or family therapy;
• May consult with and make recommendations to physicians concerning health needs;
• Provides admission and discharge nursing assessments including plans for continuing care;
• May participate in home visits and crisis intervention;
• Maintains records and makes reports; provides for nursing services to comply with ICF regulations and JCAHO standards;
• Provides nursing consultation in the assigned specialty program;
• Participates as a member of an interdisciplinary team in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of patient/individual treatment or health care plans;
• May provide in-service training to nursing and paraprofessional staff with regard to signs and symptoms of illness, dysfunction, injury and prevention of same;
• May serve as Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional;
• Conducts nursing assessments;
• Ensures controlled drugs are properly stored, administered and ordered;
• May prepare reports or correspondence;
• Performs related duties as required.
• Independently manages and provides direct care to patients/individuals;
• Manages an assigned caseload of other appropriate clinical activities;
• Independently develops, implements and evaluates nursing and/or health care plans;
• Provides clinical direction and/or training to staff in individual, group and family service delivery programs;
• May make recommendations on policies or standards;

SCHOOL NURSE:

• Provides counseling on health related issues;
• Serves as member of crisis intervention team;
• Maintains accurate medical records; writes reports;
• Ensures that controlled drugs are properly stored;
• Provides assessment of medical problems;
• Independently provides counseling and health education services to students and staff;
• May administer routine tests or exam;
• Performs related duties as required.
• May administer medication;
• Makes referrals and follows up on health needs;
• Performs primary first aid;
• Determines need for physician or medical care; performs basic evaluative procedures and tests;

• Knowledge of
  • general and mental health conditions and treatment interventions through utilization of assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, health planning, implementation and re-evaluation;
  • adult learning and family systems theory;
  • and sensitivity to cultural and socio-economic differences;
• And sensitivity to cultural and socio-economic differences;
• Considerable knowledge of
  • and ability to independently apply nursing principles, techniques and standards;
  • specialized patient/individual care applicable to nursing assignment;
  • medications, their actions, interactions, uses and side effects;
• Considerable
  • interpersonal skills;
  • oral and written communication skills;
• Supervisory ability.
• Ability to
  • establish and maintain collaborative relationships with other professionals, community resources and providers;
  • act as a role model to health care staff;
• Oral and written communication skills;
• Adult learning and family systems theory;
• General and mental health conditions and treatment interventions through utilization of assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, health planning, implementation and re-evaluation;
• And ability to independently apply nursing principles, techniques and standards;
• Interpersonal skills;
• Act as a role model to health care staff;
• Medications, their actions, interactions, uses and side effects;
• Specialized patient/individual care applicable to nursing assignment;
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with other professionals, community resources and providers;

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NURSING POSITIONS:

• Skill working with individual patients/individuals, groups and families;
• Considerable knowledge of behavioral health of individuals;
• Ability to provide therapeutic treatment with a variety of patients/individuals.

• Incumbents in this class may be required to travel.
• Incumbents in this class may be required to be fluent in a foreign language or proficient in the use of the American Sign Language in certain designated positions.
• Incumbents in this class must possess and retain a license or temporary permit as a Registered Professional Nurse in Connecticut.

In addition to the checking of references and of facts stated in the application, a thorough background investigation of each candidate may be made before persons are certified for permanent appointment.

Incumbents in this class may be required to lift and restrain patients/individuals; may have exposure to communicable/infectious diseases and risk of injury from assaultive/abusive patients/individuals; may be exposed to disagreeable conditions.