Nurse - RN

Overview

Are you ready to join a dynamic team of dedicated values-based leaders and professionals who are committed to creating a healthy, addiction-free world?

As a Nurse-RN at Phoenix House, you will review and transcribe medication orders, monitor medication records for compliance and provide triage and medical services accordingly.

• On Site daily
• Supervises LPNs
• Maintains emergency medical kit at each location
• Develop and implement a plan to have staff and patients, where appropriate, trained in the prescribed use of Narcan kit
• Support patients in the self-administration of medication
• Documentation of self-administration of medication
• Performs TB and Drug screenings on all patients within 72 hours of admissions
• Performs routine urine drug screens as directed by the treatment/recovery plan
• Monitors and records vital signs

• Long Island Residential - Queens, NY
• Full Time-non-exempt
• Salary range $41.15 - $61.73

REQUIRED EDUCATION

• Graduate from an accredited nursing program

LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS

• Current NYS license
• Current certification in CPR, Child Abuse and Infection Control

Required Experience

• At least three years related experience
• Qualified by training, education, and experience in providing nursing care for chemically addicted patients and patients withdrawing from alcohol and/or drugs

COMPETENCIES (KSAs)

• Ethical Practices
• Judgment
• Relationship Management
• Time Management
• Empathy
• Professional Boundaries
• Global and Cultural Awareness
• Critical Evaluation
• Problem Solving
• Decision Making
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Crisis Management
• Technical Capacity

This job operates in an indoor medical clinical environment. This role also routinely comes into contact with patients who may have contagious illnesses. Appropriate gloves required.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to type, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to sit, stoop, kneel or crouch and lift and/or move up to 20 pounds