Registered Nurse PRN Overnights

What You’ll Be Doing

• Schedule: PRN (as-needed) overnights, 6:00pm-6:30am. 2 scheduled shifts/month and 2 on-call shifts/month.
• Working onsite at Eating Recovery Center's child and adolescent IP facility in Denver, CO.
• Possible shifts at ERC's adult facility may be occasionally required.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Performs a full range of nursing services including assessment, care planning, administering treatment, and evaluating patient response to care in accordance with the patient’s treatment plan.
• Performs initial intake assessment of new patients and discharge reconciliation and education.
• Places, receives, and completes provider orders per ERCP policy.
• Administers medications via multiple routes in accordance with ERCP policy and provider orders.
• Performs phlebotomy, specimen processing, and point of care testing in accordance with ERCP policy and laboratory vendor protocols.
• Places/maintains nasogastric tubes and administers enteral feeding.
• Places/maintains intravenous access and administers intravenous fluids.
• Documents all direct patient care, monitoring, and observation in the electronic medical record.
• Supervises and delegates care to Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurses and Behavioral Health Technicians.
• Communicates and coordinates care with the interdisciplinary treatment team to develop and implement an individualized treatment plan for each assigned patient.
• Ensures care provided aligns with the individualized treatment plan and patient outcome goals.
• Participates in interdisciplinary treatment team meetings regarding patient progress toward treatment goals and planning for continued or changing clinical interventions.
• Documents and reports to treatment team regarding patient status and progress.
• Participates in training, teaching, and mentoring new nursing department teammates.
• Responds to emergency situations until emergency medical services (EMS/911) arrive on scene.

Must Haves

• Active Registered Nurse License in state position is held.
• Basic Life Support certification.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
• Ability to maintain patient confidentiality.
• Teammates working in a Colorado Residential Child Care facility (RCCF) must: be at least twenty-one (21) years of age or be at least eighteen (18) years of age and work directly under the supervision of a teammate over twenty-one (21) years of age.

Bonus Qualities

• 1 year+ working with patients in the mental health field.