Nurse (Clinical/Psychiatric)

Department of Defense

About the Position: This position is located at General Leonard Wood Community Hospital, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Salary negotiation may be available for those candidates who are new to Federal service. A recruitment or relocation incentive may be authorized. This is a Direct Hire Solicitation.

• Perform a comprehensive mental health nursing assessment and history to plan, provide and direct nursing care across the continuum of care.
• Identify patient problems, generate nursing diagnoses, design plans of care, write and implements nursing orders, evaluate nursing interventions, document patient’s status on a continual basis and revise plans of care accordingly.
• Develop and initiate innovative teaching programs for patients requiring special approaches.
• Administer many psychotropic and complex medications via the oral, intramuscular, subcutaneous, intradermal, topical, rectal, respiratory, intravenous routes.
• Identify pending crisis situations and handle appropriately.

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