Adolescent Psychiatric Registered Nurse

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Overview

AnAdolescent Psychiatric Registered Nurseis needed to help us in our endeavor to build the healthiest community in the nation … one person at a time.

This position will be based at the new and innovative acute care behavioral health facility, which opened in late 2023. Summit Stone has the privilege of partnering closely with Larimer County on this venture. This voter-approved facility provides licensed, equitable and culturally relevant care and treatment to individuals in crisis with mental health and/or substance use disorders. For more information click

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The Mission:

At Summit Stone Health Partners, we strive to foster trust, empower recovery, and inspire hope to strengthen and enrich our Northern Colorado community.

We need your help to make this vision a reality.

We are building a team who believes in providing crucial services at crucial times, helping the people in our community at their most vulnerable — particularly those who are often overlooked and underserved.

We Embrace Our Diversity

Come As You Are:

A core value here at Summit Stone.

We want you to be your authentic self while at work, so we welcome and actively seek team members of different backgrounds, identities and experiences. Summit Stone is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment, honoring each individual's whole-self by embracing differences in race, ethnicity, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, socioeconomic status, language and the inherent intersections of many different identities.

We invite everyone to share our journey and are proudly an equal opportunity employer.

Experiences and Backgrounds We Look For

If this sounds like your calling, then we want to help you succeed, grow, and thrive at Summit Stone.

• Location:
  
  Fort Collins, Colorado
• Status:
  Full-time, benefited
• Hours:
  
  36 hours per week, 3- 12 hour shifts

What You’ll Do:

An Adolescent Psychiatric Registered Nurse provides specialized nursing care for adolescents 12-17 with mental health disorders, emotional challenges, or behavioral issues. In our Adolescent Crisis Stabilization Unit the RN will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to assess, treat, and support young patients in managing conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, patients in crisis, schizophrenia, substance use, or trauma related disorders.

The registered nurse working in the Adolescent Crisis Stabilization Unit will provide compassionate and skilled nursing care to adolescents experiencing mental health challenges, behavioral issues, or substance use concerns. This role involves working closely with young patients, their families, and healthcare teams to promote emotional well-being, manage mental health conditions, and support recovery.

An Adolescent Psychiatric Registered Nurse delivers dedicated nursing care to adolescents navigating mental health challenges, substance use issues or behavioral crises, with a strong emphasis on supporting recovery during crisis. This role involves working collaboratively with healthcare teams and families to stabilize patients and guide them toward long-term well-being.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provides prescribed medical treatment and personal care services for clients.
• Administers medication and then evaluates and monitors clients for medication side effects.
• Coordinates, consults, and problem solves medical care and intervention with other team members and providers.
• Provides clinical assessment and problem identification, crisis interventions, documents significant interactions, and maintains clinical charts and other reporting data.
• Develops, implements, and maintains a medication administration system.
• Serves as liaison for the pharmacy, orders meds, maintains medication supplies at necessary levels and conducts medication counts. Meets with drug company representatives and assists with information and instruction regarding medication programs offered by manufacturers.
• Will screen and evaluate lab reports and refer abnormalities to the provider.
• Audits medications, destruction of…