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Registered Nurse

Posted on: February 23, 2021 Apply Now
Full-Time Job Expires May 29, 2021

Abbott House is currently seeking a full-time Registered Nurse (RN) for our site in the Bronx, NY.

Abbott House offers low cost health insurance, PTO accrual, child care referral assistance, tuition assistance, retirement, and more.

Job Summary:

The nurse is responsible for performing tasks under the framework of case-finding, health teaching, health counseling and the provision of supportive and restorative care under a Health Service Coordinator, Licensed Psychiatrist, Physician or other health care provider.

To be qualified for the position of Nurse (RN) in our Mental Health Clinic you will provide professional nursing services appropriate to children served at the clinic. Services may include, but are not limited to, nursing interventions and their documentation, health teaching/counseling and provision of supportive and or restorative care. You will also participate in staff training, team meetings, prepare clinical or administrative reports, maintain infection control standards, and medication management – provision of medications as prescribed by the provider to the designated child.

Job Responsibilities:

Client Care:

  • Conducting Assessments; HIV Risk, Intake
  • General First Aid
  • Triage
  • Routine Screenings-SU, Dev health, MH, Phys abuse
  • Training and Health education
  • Establish treatment goals
  • Medication admin/mgmt and reconciliation
  • Manage Nursing coverage
  • Manage Medical Supplies Inventory
  • Infection Control
  • Follow up after medical appointments, urgent/emergency care or hospitalization.
  • Assisting with home visits, educating caregivers, and monitoring healthcare needs
  • ·Assisting with community provider visits (Nursing services are not substitute for Private Duty Nursing or Certified Home Health Aide Care)

Skill Building:

  • Establish treatment goals
  • Assist in Skills Development defined in treatment goals
  • Psychiatric Supports
  • Counseling (SU, Family/group, trauma informed, transitional)
  • Promoting integration with community resources
  • Psycho education and wellness education
  • Collaboration with all members of care team
  • Use of evidence-based interventions
  • Structuring interventions

Procedure/Documentation:

  • Collaborates with the Nursing Services Coordinator, Physician, Psychiatrist and other members of the interdisciplinary team to formulate a goal directed plan of care that includes nursing measures that will facilitate the medical care prescribed and that will restore, maintain or promote the client’s wellbeing.
  • Continuously evaluates and documents the results of nursing intervention and updates the medical record with appropriate documentation.
  • Involves the child, parent and/or foster parent in decisions related to daily plan of care.
  • Develops and initiates a plan of care in coordination with the consumer, foster parent and bio-parent.
  • Documents within the medical record, instructions given to the child, parent and/or foster parent and their understanding of those instructions.
  • Completes all Agency, departmental, and regulatory agency forms according to the guidelines.

Quality Assurance:

  • Demonstrates knowledge of the goals of Department Quality Assurance and supports implementation.
  • Participants in the evaluation and monitoring of the quality and appropriateness of care.
  • Collaborates with the Health Services Coordinator to improve care and resolve identified problems.

Client Care:

  • Conducting Assessments; HIV Risk, Intake
  • General First Aid
  • Triage
  • Routine Screenings-SU, Dev health, MH, Phys abuse
  • Training and Health education
  • Establish treatment goals
  • Medication admin/mgmt and reconciliation
  • Manage Nursing coverage
  • Manage Medical Supplies Inventory
  • Infection Control
  • Follow up after medical appointments, urgent/emergency care or hospitalization.
  • Assisting with home visits, educating caregivers, and monitoring healthcare needs
  • Assisting with community provider visits (Nursing services are not substitute for Private Duty Nursing or Certified Home Health Aide Care)

Skill Building:

  • Establish treatment goals
  • Assist in Skills Development defined in treatment goals
  • Psychiatric Supports
  • Counseling (SU, Family/group, trauma informed, transitional)
  • Promoting integration with community resources
  • Psycho education and wellness education
  • Collaboration with all members of care team
  • Use of evidence-based interventions
  • Structuring interventions

Procedure/Documentation:

  • Collaborates with the Nursing Services Coordinator, Physician, Psychiatrist and other members of the interdisciplinary team to formulate a goal directed plan of care that includes nursing measures that will facilitate the medical care prescribed and that will restore, maintain or promote the client’s wellbeing.
  • Continuously evaluates and documents the results of nursing intervention and updates the medical record with appropriate documentation.
  • Involves the child, parent and/or foster parent in decisions related to daily plan of care.
  • Develops and initiates a plan of care in coordination with the consumer, foster parent and bio-parent.
  • Documents within the medical record, instructions given to the child, parent and/or foster parent and their understanding of those instructions.
  • Completes all Agency, departmental, and regulatory agency forms according to the guidelines.

Quality Assurance:

  • Demonstrates knowledge of the goals of Department Quality Assurance and supports implementation.
  • Participants in the evaluation and monitoring of the quality and appropriateness of care.
  • Collaborates with the Health Services Coordinator to improve care and resolve identified problems.

Safety:

  • Administers care in accordance with safety regulations identified by the Agency and other regulatory agencies.
  • Practices within legal parameters related to the delivery of medical care and Department functioning to provide a risk-free environment.

Client Rights:

  • Demonstrates an awareness and knowledge of the client’s rights while receiving care within the institution.
  • Demonstrates a knowledge of the complaint process for a child/parent who believes their rights have been violated.

Education/Professional Development:

  • Maintains current knowledge in clinical practice by participating in formal and informal educational

programs.

  • Participates in the orientation/staff development of employees.

Client Rights:

  • Demonstrates an awareness and knowledge of the client’s rights while receiving care within the institution.
  • Demonstrates and knowledge of the referral mechanism when a child/parent believes their rights have been violated.

Job Requirements:

  • Current New York State License
  • Current American Red Cross CPR certification
  • Experience working with a pediatric population
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