RN or LPN

Registered Nurse (RN) and Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Job Category

Professional

Requisition Number: REGIS
006293 Full-Time Chicopee, MA 01020, USA

The Center for Human Development (CHD) is seeking Registered Nurses (RN) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) to join our team at our Crisis Stabilization Unit located in Chicopee, MA. CHD's Crisis Stabilization Unit is seeking a full-time and part-time RN's and LPN's to support our outstanding team.

Essential duties for these roles may include:

• Collaborating with nurses, physicians, advance practice nurses, psychologists, social workers, or other professionals.
• Collaborating with guardians, relatives, and significant others of people served when clinically indicated.
• Documenting assessments and treatments in the electronic health record.
• Monitoring vital signs.
• Assessment of signs of substance withdrawal and completion of standardized assessment tools such as the Clinical Opioid Withdrawal Scale (COWS), CIWA, CIWAb.
• Fills physician orders.
• Administers medications.
• Engages in a medication reconciliation process.
• Coordinates medical care.
• Contributes to comprehensive assessments.
• Brief crisis counseling.
• Individualized crisis prevention planning.
• Providing psychoeducation.
• Assisting with discharge planning and care coordination.

Pay rates: RN pay rate:  45.00/hr lpn pay rate:  36.50/hr.

Schedules:
Part-time days, part-time and full-time evenings available! Must be able to work every other weekend.

Take advantage of a phenomenal benefit package that includes dental, health and life insurance, a flexible schedule, paid time off, earned vacation time and paid holidays just to name a few.

At Center for Human Development, CHD, Care Finds A Way The Center for Human Development (CHD) provides a broad range of high quality, community-oriented human services dedicated to promoting, enhancing, and protecting the dignity and welfare of people in need. At CHD we are celebrating differences, inclusion is not just a policy- it is a daily practice. Multicultural, multilingual, and fluent in sign language, CHD is a reflection of those we serve.

Qualifications Licenses & Certifications Required - NPI Number.