Outpatient RN - CCBHCD

At Horizon, you’ll enjoy a supportive, team-based work environment. Have a question? There’s always someone there to help! We offer a seamless onboarding experience that’ll ensure your success in your new role.

As a RN at Horizon, you will…

• Assess patient needs and develops a nursing care plan for care coordination and linkage with community resources.
• Complete medical assessments for behavioral health and substance use disorder patients, provides integration/health education, and develops a nursing care plan to provide holistic and individualized treatment to address each patient’s needs.
• Administer IM medications to patients while providing education regarding purpose and use of medication, assessing patients’ presentation compared to baseline, and noting any progress or decompensation in symptoms.
• Assist patients in achieving their treatment goals through health education. Will provide one‑on‑one education to patients and provide nursing education through group meetings.
• Provide phlebotomy and EKG services along with education to patient regarding purpose of testing.
• Provide a therapeutic environment and fosters a team approach with multidisciplinary staff.
• Evaluate patient responses to treatment and provides reports to physicians, nurse practitioners, and counselors of both objective and subjective data of patient behaviors.
• Utilize nursing diagnosis, identifies priorities of care, sets realistic short-term goals and outcomes, monitors progress toward goals and adjusts care coordination accordingly.
• Implement nursing actions that promote, maintain, and encourage healthy lifestyle behaviors.
• Work collaboratively with the team and identifies goals, lifestyle and behavioral modifications, and appropriate nursing interventions for each patient.
• Identify health education needs and knowledge deficits of the patient. Provides appropriate health teaching through multimedia materials, documents health teaching and responses in the group notes.
• Identify patient needs for community services and provide linkage.
• Develop professional interpersonal relationships with the members of the multidisciplinary team, patients, and families.
• Attend and participate in all staff meetings and mandatory in-services. Provides appropriate ideas and suggestions to improve the process or operations of the facility.
• Demonstrate proficiency and accuracy in the administration of all ordered medications and knowledge of appropriate use of medication and adverse effects.
• Assist Medical/Psychiatric providers with integration, medication management, and psychiatric visits.
• Demonstrate proficiency in computer skills and provides accurate documentation for medical records/EMR.
• Have the ability to follow physician/provider orders and recommendations for medical treatment of patients.
• Provide a safe environment for patients, staff, and families and considers safety in all interactions.
• Identify and triages medical emergencies and secures appropriate medical treatment for patients, family, or staff.
• Attend educational conferences and webinars and seeks out opportunities for professional growth and development including attainment of advanced degrees and certifications.
• Demonstrate proper procedure and technique during venipuncture, collection, and processing of blood samples and collection and testing of urine toxicology and HCG samples.
• Be comfortable providing telehealth services.

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