RN, Registered Nurse - Emergency Care - Full Time

Overview Are you ready to join a dynamic team of dedicated values-based leaders and professionals who are committed to creating a healthy, addiction-free world?
As a Nurse-RN at Phoenix House, you will review and transcribe medication orders, monitor medication records for compliance and provide triage and medical services accordingly.
Responsibilities On Site daily
Supervises LPNs
Maintains emergency medical kit at each location
Develop and implement a plan to have staff and patients, where appropriate, trained in the prescribed use of Narcan kit
Support patients in the self-administration of medication
Documentation of self-administration of medication
Performs TB and Drug screenings on all patients within 72 hours of admissions
Performs routine urine drug screens as directed by the treatment/recovery plan
Monitors and records vital signs
Job Details Long Island Residential - Queens, NY
Full Time-non-exempt
Salary range $41.15 - $61.73
Qualifications REQUIRED EDUCATION
Graduate from an accredited nursing program

LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS

Current NYS license
Current certification in CPR, Child Abuse and Infection Control
Required Experience
At least three years related experience
Qualified by training, education, and experience in providing nursing care for chemically addicted patients and patients withdrawing from alcohol and/or drugs
COMPETENCIES (KSAs)
Ethical Practices
Judgment
Relationship Management
Time Management
Empathy
Professional Boundaries
Global and Cultural Awareness
Critical Evaluation
Problem Solving
Decision Making
Communication
Teamwork
Crisis Management
Technical Capacity
Work Environment This job operates in an indoor medical clinical environment. This role also routinely comes into contact with patients who may have contagious illnesses. Appropriate gloves required.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to type, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
Frequently required to sit, stoop, kneel or crouch and lift and/or move up to 20 pounds

#J-18808-Ljbffr Phoenix House