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Registered Nurse ‐ Psychiatric Department (Registry)
Overview: The Albert J. Lurie Psychiatric Unit (6 East) is a 28‑bed adult inpatient acute psychiatric unit for patients 18‑year‑old and older admitted voluntarily or involuntarily with a primary diagnosis of acute mental illness and present as a danger to self and/or others. The most common psychiatric diagnoses we treat include depression, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar affect disorder.
We provide our patients with a safe and therapeutic treatment environment. We reintegrate patients into the community in the safest and most appropriate setting and with links to the most appropriate outpatient treatment resources. Services we offer include multi‑disciplinary assessment and treatment, psychotropic medication management, group activities, activities of daily living, therapeutic milieu, electroconvulsive treatment and linkage to outpatient services.
Multidisciplinary treatment involves a medical director, attending psychiatrists, internist, advance practice nurses, registered nurses, mental health workers, unit secretaries, occupational therapist, activities coordinator, Thresholds hospital liaison staff, patient care coordinator and unit director.
Responsibilities
Functions in multidisciplinary team to provide safe milieu management, medication administration and coordination of care of acute and chronic mentally ill adults
Creates, manages, and updates patient’s care plan with care team
Provides crisis de‑escalation for patient with acute agitation
Conducts patient groups based on unit curriculum
Coordinates safe discharge linkage as established in patient care plan
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We provide our patients with a safe and therapeutic treatment environment. We reintegrate patients into the community in the safest and most appropriate setting and with links to the most appropriate outpatient treatment resources. Services we offer include multi‑disciplinary assessment and treatment, psychotropic medication management, group activities, activities of daily living, therapeutic milieu, electroconvulsive treatment and linkage to outpatient services.
Multidisciplinary treatment involves a medical director, attending psychiatrists, internist, advance practice nurses, registered nurses, mental health workers, unit secretaries, occupational therapist, activities coordinator, Thresholds hospital liaison staff, patient care coordinator and unit director.
Responsibilities
Functions in multidisciplinary team to provide safe milieu management, medication administration and coordination of care of acute and chronic mentally ill adults
Creates, manages, and updates patient’s care plan with care team
Provides crisis de‑escalation for patient with acute agitation
Conducts patient groups based on unit curriculum
Coordinates safe discharge linkage as established in patient care plan
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