REGISTERED NURSE - MENTAL HEALTH - 5K SIGN-ON

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

The Registered Nurse is responsible for providing care and treatment for people served in an intensive residential treatment setting that are experiencing significant mental health / psychiatric symptoms, who are demonstrating significant functional impairments, and who may have co-occurring substance abuse and / or personality disorder.

Responsibilities

• Attends and actively participates in weekly team meetings
• Provides rehabilitation and coordinates medical needs for clients.
• Medication Monitoring and Administration by oral medication or needle injections
• Medication training for staff
• Orders, reviews, monitors, and discontinues medications as ordered by the physician
• Assist with keeping within assigned nursing budget.
• Conducting assessments
• Approving plan of care and service delivery methods
• Performs competency and skills evaluations on employees who provide direct care.
• Informing the physician and staff of changes in the client’s medical or mental condition and needs
• Coordinates psychiatric information with the psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners.
• Writes Progress notes, summaries, and discharges
• Group and Individual Counseling
• Case Management
• Implements the treatment / rehabilitative activities and strategies
• Crisis Prevention
• Reports significant / major incidents or accidents.
• Provides and arranges necessary medical services to ensure consumer health and safety. Follows consumer health plans.
• Provides and promotes consumer choice and facilitate independence.
• Assist with ensure compliance with contractual, legal and regulatory requirements.
• Performs other duties designed to improve employee effectiveness as a member of the team
• Promotes / encourages community integration and choice making.
• Dependable
• Conduct self in professional and ethical manner
• Willing to assist others
• Work Independently and with a team
• Handles information in a confidential manner.
• Communicates in an open and honest manner.
• Notifies proper authorities of circumstances or situations that present possible health hazards.
• Assists in maintaining and updating nursing, pharmacy, infection control, and health, and safety policies and procedures
• Other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications