What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse - Behavioral Health Urgent Care (BHUC) - Macomb position at Easterseals MORC Logo?
Easterseals MORC is hiring for a Registered Nurse - Behavioral Health Urgent Care to help make a difference and become part of something bigger than yourself!
We are looking for Game Changers!
The types of people who wake up excited to make a difference. The superheroes of their field who care about the people they serve. If that sounds like you, we want you on our team.
Benefits of Being a Superhero!
Benefits:
- Low-cost Dental/Health/Vision insurance
- Dependent care reimbursement, and up to 5 days paid FMLA for maternity, paternity, foster care and adoption.
- Generous 401K retirement plan
- Paid Leave Options Available
- Up to $125 bonus for taking 5 days off in a row.
- 10 paid holidays and 3 floating holidays (Over 30 days total of paid time off)
- Wellness Programs
- We are a PSLF (Public Service Loan Forgiveness) Employer.
- We provide bonuses and extra incentives to reward hard work & dedication.
- Mileage reimbursement in accordance with IRS rate.
- Free financial planning services through our partnerships with the LoVasco Consulting Group, and SoFi.
- Student loan repayment options
- Pet Insurance
Qualifications:
- Possess an associate or bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Nursing
- Possess an RN license with the State of Michigan
- One year of experience working with urgent care/critical care preferred
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Engage individuals in a welcoming, hopeful, empathetic manner even during acute phase.
- Collaborates as part of an interdisciplinary team in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating services for psychiatric, co-morbid, and/or co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorder consumers in the urgent care setting.
- Assesses the needs of individuals for medical assistance, takes clinical histories, completes nursing assessments and refers individuals externally to emergency room or primary care physician, or internally to Med staff provider and/or behavioral health urgent care treatment.
- Triages individuals as the check-in for behavioral health urgent care including determining if the individual needs higher level of care.
- Crisis planning with individuals.
- Conduct vitals, labs, implementation of clinical protocols i.e. COWs.
- Ensure individuals receiving Behavioral Health Urgent Care are provided with appropriate aftercare plans and ensure follow up activities occur with individuals after the completion of the BHUC encounter.
- May review lab work and results and reports abnormalities to Med staff.
- Provide support, education, and reinforce the use of prescribed medications to treat substance use and behavioral health disorders.
- Provide education and consultative services to help individuals, families and support persons to understand the disorder(s), the phases of recovery, service options and course of treatment.
Salary : $125