Job description
The Providence Center
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Nurse
Department: Adult Services Site
Status: Full-time
FLSA: Exempt
SUMMARY
Coordinate services for consumers to minimize stressors and to facilitate the reduction of psychiatric and substance abuse disorder symptoms. Encourage consumers to attain the highest possible levels of independence through providing outpatient psychotherapy either at The Center or in the community.
Perform psychiatric nursing in accordance with appropriate medical protocol.
- Provide accurate and timely information about medications and their side effects to the client and relevant others.
- Use medication maintenance strategies, determining that the doctor’s orders have been accurately transcribed, implementing appropriately the prescribed medical regimen, monitoring lab results to validate medication compliance and assessing any aspect of the consumer’s treatment regimen that endangers the level of wellness, communicating questionable aspects of consumer care to appropriate persons.
- Use physical assessment skills to determine related nursing interventions, including when medication exacerbates medical conditions and recognition of basic medical problems.
- Inform and educate consumers about mental illness, medication, coping skills, their rights as clients, services, community resources, self-help and the consumer movement.
- Teaches both simple and complex skills, including physical, social, cognitive emotional, and other relevant skills.
- Make period reassessments and if warranted, change treatment plans.
- Demonstrate appropriate use of range of crisis prevention and intervention strategies, including crisis prevention and intervention, risk assessment, hospital alternative, hospitalization, and assessment of self care, performing calmly and professionally during crisis or emergency situations.
- Coordinate activities regarding consumer hospitalization, serving as liaison with the hospital regarding admission, case review, and discharge.
- Comply with written clinical procedures and professional standards.
- Address the unique needs of individuals and co-occurring disorders (e.g., substance abuse, developmental and/or physical disabilities, personality disorders, trauma, brain injury, etc.) that consumers have.
- Keep current about new developments in psychotropic medication and other biological interventions.
- Make assessments and provide appropriate crisis interventions and risk management as needed.
- Treat consumers with respect.
- Assess consumers' unmet needs (psychological, physical, housing, psychiatric).
- Teach consumers adult daily living skills.
- Initiate treatment and advocate for consumer within network of care.
- Negotiate on behalf of the consumer, as needed, with landlords, courts, families, the treatment team, and consumers themselves.
- Transport consumers in own vehicle or Center van to planned activities and appointments.
- Complete recordkeeping in accordance with Health Information Services (HIS) and other Center requirements within required time frames and abide by Center confidentiality policy.
- Maintain cooperative relationships with other employees, consumers and the public.
- Attend trainings and conferences.
- Serve on appropriate Center committees.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree in Nursing with a Rhode Island license as well as relevant experience with substance abuse and serious mental illness.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Bilingual Spanish preferred. Ability to read and interpret documents such as policy and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before team members and other employees and have the capacity to work with other community agencies.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Must have valid driver's license and insured auto.
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