Position Overview:
RN’s will provide professional nursing care to patients with behavioral healthcare needs and work with clinical and case management staff to coordinate care and assist with treatment plans for clients.
Competencies:
Job Knowledge: Understands duties and responsibilities, has necessary job knowledge, has necessary technical skills, understands company mission/values, keeps job knowledge current, is in command of critical issues.
Communication: Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills and verbal skills.
Problem Solving: Identifies problems, involves others in seeking solutions, conducts appropriate analyses, searches for best solutions; responds quickly to new challenges
Decision Making: Use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions and/or reaching conclusions; take action consistent with available facts, constraints, and anticipated consequences.
Collaboration: Clinical leaders must be able to work in collaboration with other health professionals and leaders from other disciplines.
Specific 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 status of patients and recommends treatment options.
- Consults with medical and other behavioral healthcare 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 the disease of addiction and the need for treatment.
- Assists in maintaining a safe and secure environment for staff and patients.
- Tests for vital signs of pain and ensures treatment of pain.
- Document 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 recordkeeping.
- Provides courteous, high-quality service to patients and members of the public by responding to requests for service or making appropriate referrals in a timely manner.
Minimum Qualifications
- Associate Degree in Nursing
- 1 year of experience in behavioral healthcare is preferred but not required
- Knowledge of health care, detoxification process, addiction, co-occurring disorders, and DSM criteria and terminology is preferred not required
- Ability to read and interpret written information; write clearly and informatively; edit work for spelling and grammar.
- Ability to speak clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; listens and gets clarification responds well to questions; demonstrates group presentation skills; and participates in meetings.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
Travel: None
Overnight Shift Differential: Differentials are offered for overnight shifts.'
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Work Remotely
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $48.00 - $52.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Physical setting:
Standard shift:
Supplemental schedule:
Weekly schedule:
- 3x12
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Shift availability:
- Overnight Shift (Preferred)
- Day Shift (Preferred)
- Night Shift (Preferred)
Work Location: In person