Assertive Community Treatment Team Psychiatric Nurse

To work directly with clients of the Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACT) by using the evidence base practice model of ACT designed by NAMI to provide comprehensive and wrap around services to address client goals of mental health, physical health, housing, employment, social goals, and other goals as identified by the client and team. To provide assessment and develop treatment plan goals.

To work with the clients and fellow team members in community or home settings towards meeting the outcome objectives and standards put forth by Polk County Health Services (PCHS). To provide medication education and set up medications for ACT clients and staff. To process orders, complete prior authorizations, and work with the medication prescriber to ensure all clients received the appropriate and necessary psychiatric medications.

To function as an effective team member and represent the agency in a professional manner.

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• Expect paid time off, parental leave, 401K matching and an employee recognition program.

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Direct Client Care and Medical Services:

• Under the direction of the team medication prescriber and in collaboration with the other registered nurses on the team, develop, revise, maintain, and supervise team psychopharmacologic and medical treatment and medication policies and procedures including transcribing, administering, evaluating, and recording psychotropic medications prescribed by the medication prescriber.
• Takes a lead role in providing medication administration and nursing care, evaluating and charting psychotropic medication effectiveness, complications, and side effects as prescribed by ACT psychiatrist or ARNP.
• Administer IM injections according to protocol, properly destroy medications according to protocol, and assure client attendance and follow-up with psychiatric prescriber.
• Arranges for required lab work according to protocol, tracking collections and results.
• Provides education to patients and family members on benefits and possible side effects of medications.
• Provides individual and group treatment, as part of a team, in the office and community settings. Treatment will be in a stage-based treatment model that is non-confrontational
• In collaboration with the team psychiatrist or ARNP coordinate, schedule, and administer medical assessments of client physical health, making appropriate referrals to community physicians for further assessment and treatment, and coordinating psychiatric treatment with medical treatment.
• Provides individual, couple, family and group services/skill teaching in a community setting to teach patients behavioral symptom management as a means of coping with internal and external stressors.
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