Registered Nurse (RN), CrisisCare Center- PRN

Position Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Promote and maintain a safe, therapeutic, and recovery-oriented environment in accordance with ODMHSAS standards and agency policy.
• Perform initial, ongoing, and comprehensive nursing assessments of clients’ physical and mental health status.
• Administer, monitor, and manage medications and prescribed medical treatments in compliance with OBN regulations, prescriber orders, and agency medication administration and risk-management policies.
• Monitor for, evaluate, and document psychotropic medication effectiveness, adverse reactions, contraindications, and side effects, and report concerns to the prescriber per policy.
• Maintain responsibility for pharmaceutical and medical supply inventory, ensuring proper storage, security, expiration monitoring, and regulatory compliance.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and complete clinical documentation consistent with ODMHSAS, OBN, and agency documentation standards.
• Coordinate consumer transfers to a higher level of care in accordance with Crisis Care Center clinical pathways under the direction of the prescriber.
• Implement and support behavior management interventions within program guidelines, individualized treatment plans, and agency policy.
• Ensure compliance with psychopharmacologic and medical treatment policies and communicate recommendations for policy revision through appropriate leadership channels.
• Evaluate and chart psychotropic medication effectiveness, complications and side effects.
• Ensure that all nursing staff and mental health techs comply with written policies and procedures as established by FCSE.
• Serve as charge nurse when assigned.

Qualifications

• EDUCATION: Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) Required
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) Preferred
• Experience: Preferred 1 year of work experience in an inpatient or outpatient psychiatric setting.
• Performance Competencies: Communication, Decision Making, Engagement, Initiative and Accountability, Interpersonal, Learning, Organizational Alignment, Quality of Work
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Knowledge of psychiatric and medical nursing practices applicable to individuals experiencing acute mental health and/or substance use crises, demonstrated ability to establish and maintain therapeutic, professional relationships with individuals with serious mental illness, while respecting consumer rights, autonomy, and treatment preferences, knowledge of co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders and ability to apply evidence-based, clinically appropriate nursing interventions, proficiency in trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and person-centered care models, consistent with ODMHSAS standards, skill in clinical judgment, prioritization, and decision-making during high acuity, rapidly changing clinical situations.