Registered Nurse

Salary Range

$80,000 - $120,000 commensurate with experience

Position Summary

The Registered Nurse (RN) supports integration of Physical and Behavioral Health at Community Connections. The RN is responsible for Care Management for assigned consumers including: Teaming with internal and external providers, aggregating health data and ensuring medical record integrity, and providing direct nursing care that is emergent, urgent, and routine. The RN achieves key performance indicators: including service volumes, quality and timely documentation, beneficial outcomes as measured by health data and statistics, and teamwork.

• Key responsibilities
• Conducts collaborative and systematic activities to ensure that all assigned consumers are engaged and assessed to identify, prioritize, and treat acute and chronic health risks and concerns.
• Champions preventative care and conducts frequent physical and mental health vital signs and screenings.
• Maintains medical record including quarterly and annual review, incorporation of pertinent medical records, historical log of vital signs and values, and other documentation as needed.
• Provides direct care including but not limited to: treatment planning, assessment, individual and family supports, health promotion, psychoeducation, and therapeutic groups.
• Supports medication management including administration via IM injection, dispensing in collaboration with Pharmacist, environmental structuring that supports adherence, teaching, and addressing barriers such as insurance changes and prior authorization.
• Documents all direct and indirect services in a timely manner, in the format specified by the assigned program, to a quality that confirms with professional standards and agency policies.
• Refers Consumers internally and externally for services as needed.
• Coordinates care with members of consumers' natural and professional networks by permission and as needed.
• Participates in discharge planning for based on readiness, eligibility, and engagement.
• Responds and manages physical and psychiatric emergencies, at the center and in the community. RN provides First Aid as necessary and appropriate.
• Completes OAS nursing/withdrawal assessments as assigned to determine level of substance abuse treatment needed.