Registered Nurse; RN

Job Title:

Registered Nurse – RN

We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Registered Nurse – RN to join our team. If you are passionate about providing care to youth in need and want to join a top-notch team, please apply today! We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, vision insurance and a 401k that's top 3 % in the country.

Company:
Youth Opportunity Investments - Everglades Youth Academy

Ocala Youth Academy serves up to 72 adolescent males ages 15–18 across Mental Health and Substance Abuse overlay services. Youth engage in evidence-based interventions including Moral Recognition Therapy, Seven Challenges, and Impact of Crime, with individual, group and family counseling, victim impact awareness, restorative justice, life skills training, and education via Florida Scholars Academy. Onsite medical and psychiatric care, dietitian-managed meals, and youth advisory-driven programming support a trauma-informed treatment model.

Length of stay depends on individualized risk reduction and treatment outcomes

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Job Type: Full Time

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance eligible after 60 days of employment
• 401k with 100% match up to 4% of your salary after 60 days of employment
• Paid Time Off and 7 Paid Holidays (for full-time employees)
• Tuition Assistance and Opportunities for Growth

Key Responsibilities:

As a Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for providing high-quality nursing care to our residents, including administering medication, monitoring vital signs, and providing emotional support to residents and their families. You will work closely with our interdisciplinary team, including physicians, therapists, and social workers, to develop and implement individualized care plans for residents.

• Provide care education to patients in person or over the phone.
• Adhere to compliance guidelines throughout processes (OSHA, FDA, HIPAA)
• Triage illness and injuries at each shift, determine medical priority and treat within the scope of nursing practice.
• Monitor and/or administer medications.
• Conduct required health screenings.
• During orientation and on an annual basis, staff members and youth will receive instruction on the exposure control plan, which includes standard precautions, blood borne pathogens, and how communicable diseases are spread.
• Document health care progress, problems, needs, and recommendations.

Other

Duties Include:

• Coordinate with safety teams quarterly mock emergency drills on a number of emergency situations with detailed debriefing and critiques.
• Provides staff training as required by state agency. Examples of training may include, but is not limited to first aid, universal precautions, use of epi-pens, and medication review for those staff cleared to monitor self-administration of medications. CPR training may also be provided if the nurse is a certified CPR trainer.
• Maintain “Controlled Drug Book”, assuring that agency required forms are being used and signed by staff when medication is administered and when nurse or cleared representatives are conducting shift-to-shift medication counts.
• Participate in treatment team staffing as needed.
• Maintain health/first aid supplies, including, but not limited to the ordering epi-pens and bandaging units, ordering, and stocking other supplies, monitoring expiration dates, and monitoring/maintaining of Automatic External Defibrillator (AED).
• Participate in training and development activities as required to maintain licensure (based on state board of nursing recommendations).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

Education:

Must have a license as a professional Registered Nurse which shall have included clinical nursing, practice in nursing supervision, nursing education, nursing management or public health nursing.

Experience:

Three years’ experience as a professional RN

Skills: A sound understanding of group leadership, group dynamics, and experiential education. Records management and Medicaid processes preferred. Advanced oral and written communication skills.

Physical Demands:
Must be in good physical health and emotionally stable. Must be able to…