Mental Health Registered Nurse

About the role

The Registered Nurse provides 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
• Medsication Monitoring and Administration by oral medication or needle injections
• Medsication 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
• Congrates 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
• Aid 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

Qualifications

• Must be 21 years of age
• Holds a bachelor's degree in nursing or related health and human services field from an accredited college or university with at least 2000 hours of experience with adult persons who have a serious psychiatric disability or holds an RN from an accredited two-year program and has more than 6,000 hours of experience with adult persons who have a serious psychiatric disability.
• Valid driver’s license and insurance required
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing
• Experience in managing systems, processes, and people