Job Description

The Registered Nurse works in a dynamic multidisciplinary team providing treatment services according to the Discovery Behavioral Health Clinical Model

Meets with each potential new admission and completes face to face assessment. Screens for medical appropriateness for admission to facility and consults with the medical/psychiatric provider to receive orders for admission. 

Ensures all orders from medical/psychiatric providers are carried out.

Ensure that all patients have signed informed consent for medications prior to the 1st dose.

Administers medications as prescribed and administers PRN medications and documents effectiveness within timelines.

Meets regularly with medical staff and treatment team to discuss patient care, needs and interventions.

Provides assessment of medical problems as needed.

Performs vital signs, basic evaluative procedures, blood draws and tests.

Maintains NG tube and administers bolus feeds when appropriate.

Responsible to ensure all the medications needed by the patients are ordered appropriately and available in the facility.

Effectively and professionally communicates with families/loved ones, as appropriate.

Provides milieu management throughout the treatment experience and communicates with all team members.

Objectively and accurately documents patient progress as required by policy.

Assists with discharge process.

Assesses patient suicidality and possibility of danger to self or others.

Communicates with referral sources and outpatient providers for continuity of care upon admission, midpoint, and discharge, as needed.

Oversees the medication management system that includes but not limited to, medication planning, storage, ordering and transcribing, administration, monitoring and evaluation.

Required to sit at a meal and a snack on every shift.

Will work during meal periods to provide supervision and support to patient.

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