Registered Nurse (Mental Health)
About The Position
The Registered Nurse provides medical support and supervision for the elderly program and its participants. The role also includes training staff and providing participants with referral information and education. The nurse helps ensure participants’ medical status is monitored, services comply with contractual and state regulations, and community-provider relationships support access to needed medical services. The position is part-time, with a 20–29-hour modified schedule, and may require travel up to 25%. The role is located at PG Behavioral Health in Lanham, Maryland, and reports to the Senior Program Director.
Requirements
- Must be a Registered Nurse.
- Three years of experience working with individuals with mental illness.
- Comprehensive knowledge of nursing-service methods, standards, practices, and techniques.
- Knowledge of the dangers and precautions related to somatic and psychotropic medications.
- Knowledge of treatment, diagnostic, immunization, and related medical services for chronically mentally ill patients.
- Knowledge of rules, regulations, procedures, and policies pertaining to nursing services.
- Ability to assign and supervise nonprofessional medical personnel and instruct them in practices and techniques.
- Ability to accurately maintain patient medical records and prepare reports.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with clients, staff, and others encountered through work.
- Must maintain personal professional liability insurance and name VOA Chesapeake, Inc. as an additional insured. The organization will reimburse the cost of the additional annual premium.
- Ability to safely operate a motor vehicle to transport oneself and/or equipment as necessary.
- Ability to travel to assigned locations and perform the stated physical activities, including standing, sitting, stooping, bending, reaching, pulling, pushing, lifting, grasping, climbing, talking, seeing, hearing, and basic and light home maintenance activities.
- Ability to move and lift objects weighing up to 30 pounds.
- Ability to operate office equipment requiring continuous or repetitive hand and arm movements.
- Ability to remain seated for extended periods.
Responsibilities
- Participate in client referral, medical assessment, and discharge or termination processes.
- Participate in developing, evaluating, monitoring, and revising medical issues related to individualized rehabilitation plans.
- Provide consultation and training to staff.
- Participate in privileging staff to perform specific duties.
- Serve as a liaison and consultant to the medical community.
- Monitor medication policies and procedures.
- Administer medications, apply or change dressings, check vital signs, review medical tests, and refer participants for follow-up care as needed.
- Monitor client physicals and make recommendations.
- Provide staff training and participants with referral information and education.
- Monitor participants’ medical status and help ensure compliance with contractual and state regulations relating to medical services.
- Maintain effective relationships with community providers to help participants receive needed medical services.
Benefits
- Reimbursement for the cost of the additional annual professional liability insurance premium for adding VOA Chesapeake, Inc. as an insured.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
