Registered Nurse

At Henry Ford Health, we're committed to advancing health and improving lives for the millions of people we serve across Michigan and around the world. As one of the nation's leading academic health systems, we provide a comprehensive continuum of care that includes primary and preventive services, specialty and complex care, virtual care, pharmacy, home health, eye care, health insurance, and more. With 12 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations, including former Ascension Southeast Michigan and Flint Region facilities, our growing network expands access to exceptional care in the communities we serve.

Headquartered in Detroit, Henry Ford Health is helping shape the future of healthcare through the transformative Future of Health: Detroit initiative, a $3 billion investment that is redefining our academic healthcare campus and advancing innovation, research, education, and community impact.

Our work is grounded in purpose, collaboration, and belonging. We empower team members to grow their careers, contribute innovative ideas, and make a meaningful difference every day. Whether you're caring for patients, supporting operations, conducting research, or driving new solutions, you'll be part of a team united by a shared mission: delivering exceptional care, advancing health outcomes, and building healthier communities for all.

Job Description

Provides direct nursing care to substance abuse patients in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization.

Responsibilities:

• Use critical thinking skills and problem solving ability on a routine bases to facilitate safe and efficient operations for the patient care experience.
• Identify and prioritize individualized needs based on assessment.
• Initiate and implement a written plan of care by developing/choosing standards of care, defining interventions and developing patient outcomes.
• Collaborate with other caregivers to plan for appropriate discharge or transfer to appropriate level of care.
• Coordinate patient's care to assure procedures, treatments, transfers, and/or referrals are completed in a timely manner, encompassing standards of clinical nursing practice and Brighton Hospital policies.
• Consistently perform nursing skills according to standards of clinical nursing practice, commencing with the assign unit and per Brighton Hospital policy and procedures.
• Guide Unit Techs in provision of care for assigned patients.
• Orientate and/or train new personnel as required.
• Participate in staff meetings, department QI activities, peer review and voluntary committees.
• Ability to successfully pass medication competency examination and department specific competencies during orientation period.
• Interpersonal skills necessary to deal effectively with physicians, other PHMC associates, patients and families.
• Knowledgeable of the JCAHO standards as they apply to the ambulatory network.

Qualifications

Licensure / Certification / Registration:

• Must be certified or obtain CPI certification within 120 days of employment and maintain current certification thereafter required.
• Licensed as a registered nurse in the State of Michigan required.
• Basic Life Support Provider certification from the American Heart Association (AHA) required within 120 days of hire/transfer date.

Education:

• Associates degree in Nursing required.
• Work Experience: - Minimum of two (2) years work experience as a BSN, RN or LPN preferred.
• RN with some substance use understanding.