Required Skills/Experience:

• 6 months of children/adolescent experience
• Must be able to manage multiple escalated patients at once.
• Must be able to manage multiple physical holds happening at the same time.
• Must be comfortable with physical holds; verbal de-escalation is the gold standard, with seclusion and/or mechanical restraints if indicated for safety.
• De-escalation, IM injections, and proactively recognizing increased agitation.
• Must be able to transition from standing, seated, and supine for safety interventions.

Required Credentials:

• ASN / BSN

Unit Details:

• Children typically age 3-10 with intellectual and developmental disabilities; patients can be impulsive and require redirection.
• Patients can range from verbal to nonverbal (full spectrum); some may need full ADL support or assistance with changing, may have communication issues, may need prompting for hygiene, and typically do not need feeding but may need prompting.
• Patients have been known to kick, hit, grab, and yell.
• Very busy unit with multiple physical holds for safety when redirection is ineffective.
• State guardians are frequent.
• Any age could be present on the unit, depending on how patients need to be separated for that shift.
• Support/resources include the INBC team (Innovation Specialist, Behavioral Analyst), regular rounding from Advanced Practitioners, therapist and case manager support, security on campus, dedicated code response resources with transponders, five designated response team members, and 24/7 video monitoring staff who can initiate assistance or call codes from off-unit.
• Uses Omnicell; restraint chair (rarely used), physical holds, timeouts, and seclusion.

Shift & Scheduling:

• Every third weekend.
• No call.
• Holiday expectations are based on scheduled days from the facility.

Floating Requirements:

• Could float from children to adults anywhere throughout the facility.
• Candidates should be comfortable floating throughout the facility and open to schedule/shift flexibility, understanding they may not remain on the same unit or shift consistently.

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