Responsibilities for the Nurse:
- Provide nursing services (primarily med/somatic) on-site and within communities to clients with a psychiatric nursing focus
- Administer medications and injections and provide medical/health screening and minor physical health duties (dressing changes/blood pressure screening/monitoring glucose levels/etc.)
- Provide psychiatric nursing assessment of individual clients as it relates to medication complications
- Assess the effectiveness of psychotropic medication therapy and educate clients on topics such as medications, side effects, and drug interactions.
- Attends ACT team meetings
- May be assigned to initiate, coordinate, and monitor evaluations necessary to identify patient needs in areas to include: living arrangements, financial concerns, physical/psychiatric health, activities of daily living, vocational/educational, social supports, leisure and recreation
- By assertive outreach, attempts to engage the patient in identifying and expressing his/her own needs, offers services to assist in meeting these needs within job duties, and re-assesses needs and outcomes with the patient
- A primary focus will be relapse prevention/mental and physical health promotion; will work closely with the teams to identify/evaluate factors leading to relapse, and will collaborate with team and other providers to develop and implement service interventions to ensure patient holistic health stability
Requirements for Registered Nurse (RN):
- OH Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) license.
- Experience working with persons who have chronic mental illness preferred
- Excellent communication, documentation, and time management skills.
- Ability to be flexible with work schedule and assignments.
- Experience with working or living in the Warren County area is a plus
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