Registered Nurse (RN) - ACT

Job Description Summary: Minimum starting salary $27.00 / hour

The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Registered Nurse (RN) provides nursing services to adult clients enrolled in the ACT program that are interested in improving their health and wellness. RN assesses physical and psychiatric health strengths, needs, and interests as it applies to psychiatric nurse management, makes appropriate referrals to community physicians, provides management and administration of medication in conjunction with the ACT psychiatric provider, provides information and education, adds health promotion goals/objectives/interventions to treatment plans, and accurately documents progress via progress notes. RN provides cross-training and consultation to the treatment team about nursing services and health promotion as interventions for any patient interested in health promotion and intervention. RN demonstrates a warm and welcoming, empathic, hopeful attitude, with a strengths-based focus on recovery. RN will be trained in trauma-informed care and will work to help provide services in an environment that is sensitive and responsive to patient needs and goals. RN reports directly to ACT/ITCD Programs Supervisor.

Education

• Requires a minimum of bachelor’s degree in nursing
  
  

Licenses And Certifications

• Must be licensed as an RN in the state of Missouri.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate time management and multitasking skills to independently manage team caseload. Arrange work schedule to see clients regularly according to their individual needs. Manage multiple, simultaneous deadlines to ensure that services are provided according to established expectations. Manage pharmaceutical and medical supplies.
• Collaborate with each patient to develop individualized person-centered plans to guide treatment. Said plans are to be completed within established timeframes and reviewed/updated bi-annually, at minimum. Organize and manage the system of getting medication to clients and integrating medication administration into patient’s individualized person-centered plans. Provide medication education to clients, provide symptom education to enable clients to identify their behavioral health symptoms, participate in treatment, rehabilitation, and support services.
• Effectively assess and monitor clients’ participation and progress in treatment according to and in adherence with individualized person-centered plans. Provide or assist clients with transportation to/from appointments. Maintain contact with clients’ families/guardians/natural supports as appropriate and approved by patient.
• Ensure that required assessments are completed at intake and quarterly, at minimum, and in collaboration with each patient whenever possible.
• Provide treatment interventions which are medically necessary, ethical and in accordance with patient’s individualized person-centered plans. Help the treatment team consider nursing services and health promotion as treatment interventions for helping clients gain maximum independence and satisfaction.
• Communicate all relevant clinical information with ACT/ITCD Programs Supervisor and other key ACT team members regarding each patient’s critical care needs in a timely manner.
• Ensure that all required progress notes, nursing assessment, AIMS, and all other documentation is completed within established timeframes and according to quality standards set by State and Federal regulations, CARF certifications, program expectations, ACT Fidelity, State and Federal regulations, as well as Ozark Center Policy and Procedure
• Support coworkers and teammates in providing trauma-informed, person-centered services to clients. Collaborate effectively with colleagues, service providers and treatment team members to support clients in achieving their recovery goals.
• Proactively adopt and implement a variety of new and ongoing program initiatives to benefit clients served. Network with community members, potential referral sources, medical providers, psychiatric units, and other community resources to benefit clients served.
• Fully complete required/requested patient surveys and any System goals to be attained within timelines given. Provide cross-training, as requested, to ensure staff understand nursing/health promotion best practices as it relates to improving patient outcomes, and to help the team monitor psychiatric symptoms and medication side effects.
• Prepare for and participate in scheduled supervision with ACT/ITCD Programs Supervisor as scheduled. Attend and participate in required staff meetings and training, including ACT, as scheduled without lateness or absenteeism.
• Adhere to a flexible schedule between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with consideration given to patient needs falling outside these timeframes. Respond to all patient needs of urgent or emergent nature according to said schedule, unless using paid leave. Participate in ACT afterhours crisis on-call rotation.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Standard office environment
• Physical demands typically include prolonged sitting, frequent standing, bending and stooping.
• Requires a typical range of hearing and manual dexterity sufficient to operate computer keyboard, telephone, photocopier, calculator, and other office equipment as needed.
• Requires ability to work under stressful conditions, to adapt to changing schedules and to effectively resolve conflict.
• Requires use of personal vehicle for travel and client transportation.
• Requires good driving skills
• Requires use of personal cell phone to communicate with team lead/office staff/team members during work hours.
• TB test upon hire.