Registered Nurse Lead Role Residential

Overview

Registered Nurse Lead Role

Residential Program located at 1000 Atlantic Avenue Camden (Virtua facility)

Four days a week work 8.5 hours; one day a week is double shift

Population : Adolescents

Competitive salary

Full benefits (equivalent to about $15k annually)

Must have :

• A bachelor’s degree or BSN
• Current NJ RN license
• A valid driver’s license
• At least a year of experience with adolescents in behavioral and mental health in a lead role.

Provides leadership and supervision to the Registered Nurses working in an Intense Residential Treatment program while providing direct care to the residents of the program.

Responsibilities

• Leads, schedules and provides clinical and administrative supervision to the RNs at the program.
• Schedules and facilitates mandatory RN staff meetings quarterly and as needed.
• Performs weekly chart audits.
• Provides trainings to all RNs who are new to the unit on the procedures of medication administration and documentation.
• Arranges and maintains a log of all residents’ appointments with physicians, dentists and other healthcare professionals.
• Creates and maintains medical records.
• Conducts and supervises resident admissions to ensure that the necessary documents have been completed.
• Ensures that all residents receive intake and follow-up medial, dental and eye care appointments.
• Updates each child s monthly medication sheet, recording and dating all changes.
• Participates in Treatment Team meetings to provide necessary support amongst a multidisciplinary team as schedule allows.
• Completes medication disposal logs twice per month and returns all unsuited medications to the Pharmacy.
• Coordinates and tracks all written prescriptions.
• All other duties as necessary.

Qualifications

• A current CPR / BLS card with demonstrated and cognitive skills is required.
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state of employment.
• Must conform to the security standards of the institution where employed.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls;

reach with hands and arms; and climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must frequently lift and / or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

EOE M / V / F / D

Company Profile

CFG is a comprehensive healthcare provider that is dedicated to improving quality of life for individuals and families by providing innovative medical and mental health services.

Our Health Network includes Center for Family Guidance, CFG Health Systems and CFG Residentials.

Job Category

Nurse