Registered Nurse - ACT

Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborates as part of an interdisciplinary team in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating services for psychiatric, co-morbid, and/or co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorder consumers.
• Affords assessments of the needs of individuals for medical assistance, takes clinical histories, and refers individuals to a physician when appropriate.
• Develops and carries out appropriate treatment plans to meet individual needs.
• Establishes nursing care objectives that promote health, well-being, and recovery; based on the strength-based assessment of needs with individual input, designed in relation to treatment goals.
• Attends team meetings to review problems and plan solutions, and completes meeting minutes on a rotation basis.
• Works with program psychiatrists in meeting the psychiatric/medical needs of individuals.
• Administers and monitors medications ordered by psychiatrists.
• Distributes medication boxes to individuals as ordered, as well as “eyes on meds” activities to ensure compliance with treatment plan.
• Provides support, education, and reinforces the use of prescribed medications to treat substance use and mental health disorders.
• Observes the condition of individuals served, and reports any changes or reactions to medications or treatments.
• Documents observations in individual records.
• Prepares forms and reports, and maintains accurate medical records on assigned individuals as required.

Qualifications

• Associates degree in Nursing
• Registered Nurse (RN) License
• Vaild Michigan Drivers License
• Experience working in behavioral health preferred