Behavioral Health Nurse

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Psychiatric assessment, treatment, and clinical case management.
• Carry out clinical case treatment planning and management for an assigned number of clients.
• Perform mental status assessment and suicide assessment of clients, as well as provide crisis intervention services.
• Develop, implement, evaluate and revise overall treatment goals and plans for an assigned number of clients.
• Document client progress in the permanent clinical record of the client according to established methods and procedures.
• Provide community-based psychosocial rehabilitation services to persons with mental illness, including client specific ADL teaching/training, assuring basic needs of client are met (medical, dental, and/or financial).
• Attend and participate in recovery team and interdisciplinary team meetings.
• Psychiatric and substance use disorder medical assessment and treatment.
• Transcribe, administer, evaluate and record psychotropic medicines prescribed by the agency prescribers, according to policy.
• Evaluate and chart psychotropic medication effectiveness, complications, and side effects, under the training and supervision of the agency prescribers.
• Administer drug screening through urine and/or saliva collection.
• Pharmacy management.
• Aid in maintaining pharmaceutical and other treatments and supplies as required for psychiatric medical and general medical assessment and treatment.
• Establish and maintain proper storage of medication and other pharmaceutical supplies.
• Coordinate labs and gather results.
• Aid in maintaining medication records.
• Aid in packaging and adjusting medications as needed for clients, under the direction of the agency prescribers.
• Physical Health Monitoring.
• Perform and assist in physical assessment, both initial assessment and on-going, under the supervision of the agency prescribers.
• Participate in referral of clients to medical care providers, as well as assist in providing liaison between agency and these providers.
• Provide backup coverage for Behavioral Health Nurse (CSP) as necessary.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
• Registered Nurse (RN) Credentials.
• Two years of experience working with behavioral health and/or psychiatric medications.
• Experience with or willingness to obtain training in addiction medicine.
• Working knowledge of clinical case management and psychiatric medical assessments and treatment.