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Registered Nurse - IRTS

SpringPath Mental Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, United States


Overview
The Registered Nurse is responsible for providing 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.

Medication Monitoring and Administration by oral medication or needle injections

Medication 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

Coordinates 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 facilitates independence.

Assist with ensuring 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.

Dependable

Conducts self in a professional and ethical manner

Willing to assist others

Work independently and with a team

Handles information in a confidential manner.

Communicates in an open and honest manner.

Notifies proper authorities of circumstances or situations that present possible health hazards.

Assists in maintaining and updating nursing, pharmacy, infection control, and health and safety policies and procedures

Other tasks as assigned.

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.

Salary Range
USD $90,000.00 - $93,000.00 / Year

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