Job Description
Job DescriptionRegistered Nurse
Type: direct hire
Specialty: inpatient/residential - residents are ages 12-17 (males and females) - Residents live and go to school on campus.
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 3:00 PM– 11:00PM, with alternating weekends (two weekdays off when working a weekend)
Requirements:
- Current active license in Virginia as a Registered Nurse.
- CPR, First Aid, and BLS.
- Experience in adolescent, psychiatric, and/or case management nursing required.
- Bi-lingual (Spanish & English) strongly preferred
Responsibilities:
- Performs clinical assessments for the identification, evaluation, coordination and management of member's needs, including physical and behavioral health, social services and long-term services
- Performs assigned waived testing in the laboratory to provide data for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases. Receives specimens and stocks supplies when received in the department. Troubleshoots/resolves instrument problems and document corrective actions in appropriate log and when necessary. Assures that quality control is properly performed and logged and follow proper department procedure for corrective action. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills to train new employees.
- Draws blood and administers injections as needed
- Conducts new admission assessments and completes new admission tasks within time frame specified by licensing regulations.
- Assesses and provides first aid/appropriate follow up for acute medical issues of residents
- Maintains and manages quality care of residents. This includes working across the care team (nursing, case management, therapists, residential staff, etc) to ensure residents’ health and wellness needs are met in accordance with licensing requirements.
- Maintains working knowledge of preventative care and acute care issues that affect residents in order to develop treatment care plans and perform education to assist residents in health goals
- Makes appointments, maintains and edits shared calendar, processes paperwork and ensures necessary follow ups are complete, excellent and thorough documentation, performs and responds to audits to ensure health needs are being met in accordance with licensing regulations, effectively communicates with all relevant members of the care team (including resident, guardians, placement agencies, YFT treatment team members, and outside medical offices and entities, and other tasks as assigned
- Completes and obtains necessary paperwork on each resident, schedules appointments that are needed within the set licensing parameters, reviews and enters any new or returning paperwork of all residents
- Implements treatment care plans by facilitating authorizations/referrals within benefits structure or extra-contractual arrangements, as permissible
- Manages illnesses and/or disabilities ensuring cost effective and efficient utilization of health benefits; conducts gap in care management for quality programs
- Manages and keeps all active prescriptions, ensures resident’s medications are available as appropriate, ensures medication orders are active and accurate in eMAR system, administers medication according to MATY protocol and YFT policy, completes medication administration documentation, monitors for side effects, performs medication audits, educates and supervises med techs and other medication management duties as assigned
Benefits: medical, dental, vision, group life insurance, and up to a 5% retirement match. We also offer supplemental insurances such as life (no charge), short-term disability, critical illness, accident insurance and legal resources. We have 9 paid holidays and personal time off accruals. Paid vacation days: Begins accruing on day one of first full paid pay period up to @3.69 hours per pay period/up to 12 days per year) and 2 personal days/year (after one year of employment).
. . . Pay Statement and Pay Transparency Laws: rate of pay listed is on a per hour basis. You will be entitled to health insurance once employed for 60 days and you must work 30 hours per week, on average, per month to enroll and maintain health insurance through Complete Staffing Solutions. Once both qualifiers are met you must complete the enrollment packet and your benefits will start on the first of the subsequent month. . . It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, national or ethnic origin or any other legally protected class. We are committed to a diverse workforce. We value all employees' talents and support an environment that is inclusive and respectful. We are strongly committed to this policy, and believe in the concept and spirit of the law. #ZIP