Registered Nurse (RN)

• Job Responsibilities:
• Able to provide quality customer service to personnel, persons served, families and stakeholders.
• Helps maintain the health, safety and welfare of personnel, person served and stakeholders.
• Be a leader and example in a medical team by demonstrating the highest level of compliance and exemplary performance.
• Participate in quality assurance by monitoring quality of medical care, documentation, and client interactions they provide.
• Maintain current licensure and certifications.
• Identifies client care requirements by establishing rapport with potential and actual clients by maintaining an open-door policy.
• Follow detox protocols per organization policies and procedures. Including, but not limited to completing frequent face-to-face assessments (minimum of once a day), COWS/CIWA scales when applicable, administering ordered medication, etc.
• Complete daily rounding of detox clients at bedside.
• Promotes client independence by establishing client care goals; teaching clients to understand their condition, medications, and self-care skills, answering questions.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against client care goals and standards, making, or recommending necessary adjustments; following agency and nursing division’s philosophies and standards of care set by State Board of Nursing, State Nursing Practice Act and other governing agency regulations.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with infection-control policies and procedures.
• Protects clients and personnel by adhering to medication administration and storage procedures, controlled substance regulations, and disposing of unused/abandoned medications per organizations' policies and procedures and state regulations.
• Complete inventory of supplies and stock medications and notify appropriate staff to obtain necessary supplies.
• Works with other medical and program staff to complete initial intake rapid COVID testing and report results to appropriate team members.
• Obtain lab specimens per Medical Provider (MD/APRN/PA) orders, report results to Medical Provider within a timely manner, and document results in electronic medical records.
• Complete initial Nursing Assessments with each client per CARF requirements.
• Document client care services by charting client and department records.
• Documenting client progress in nursing progress notes in electronic medical records. Charting by exception (ER visits, new symptoms/complaints, noticeable progress, etc.).
• Documenting communication with Medical Provider (MD/APRN/PA) and new medications or treatments ordered.
• Initiate new orders from Medical Provider (MD/APRN/PA) within a timely manner.
• Assess client concerns on an as needed basis, triage needs, provide appropriate care within scope of practice, and notify Medical Provider (MD/APRN/PA) for further orders as needed.
• Assist in preparing clients to see Medical Provider (MD/APRN/PA) for initial evaluations (I.e., obtain list of client's current medications, allergies, health concerns, and most recent vital signs).
• Complete “Shift Report” with off-going and on-coming medical staff through email and in person communication.
• Ensures and maintains client confidentiality and adheres to HIPAA regulations.
• Assist with training non-licensed personnel in medication administration upon hire, annually, and when retraining needs are identified.
• Provides feedback and education to all clients in collaboration with clinical and programming teams.
• Respond to screening approval emails in a timely manner.
• Complete standard daily task list.
• Serve as a liaison for the Medical Provider (MD/APRN/PA) and Pharmacy(s).
• Complete phone screenings and send them to appropriate team members for approval in a timely manner.
• Assist with Health and Safety policy development and implementation when requested.
• Prepare Plans and follow-ups in accordance to CARF Standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Physical Setting:

• Clinic
• Inpatient
• Long term care

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Experience:

• Nursing: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• BLS Certification (Preferred)
• RN (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Elizabethtown, KY 42701 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Elizabethtown, KY 42701: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $70,000 - $80,000