Licensed Practical Nurse - 100BC - Mon-Fri 9am-5pm Job Smithtown area,New York USA,Nursing

Licensed Practical Nurse - 100BC
- Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

ACT Team Smithtown
- Smithtown, NY 11787

Job Description

Make and Impact.

At Well Life Network, your clinical expertise helps individuals achieve wellness, recovery, and independence. Join a compassionate team of professionals dedicated to providing person-centered care across behavioral health, developmental disabilities, and community-based programs. Here, your skills make a real difference - one life, one family, and one community at a time.

POSITION SUMMARY:

A clinical staff member who, in addition to performing routine team duties, has lead responsibility for evaluating the needs of assigned consumers for treatment; supervises and renders general nursing care (e.g., administers injections and medications) on an on-going basis. Provide psychiatric and medical assessment and treatment; and development, maintenance, and supervision of medication and psychiatric treatment.

Essential Accountabilities:

Assist the prescriber on the team with assessment of client physical health, making appropriate referrals to community physicians for further assessment and treatment, and coordinating medical treatments with psychiatric treatment.

Complete nursing assessment within 30 days of admission and yearly thereafter.

Collaborate with the treatment team in comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history, mental status, and diagnosis; physical and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living and family structure and relationships.

Perform individual, group and family supportive therapy and illness education in the process of carrying out the tasks above.

Transcribes the prescribers medication orders; administers prescribed injections and medications as needed. Observes consumer, records significant conditions and reactions, and notifies current prescriber of consumers condition and reaction to drugs, treatments, and significant incidents.

Monitor and draw labs for clients as needed.

Instructs consumers about daily medications (e.g., names of drugs, dosages, interactions, benefits). Reviews medication record of each consumer for potential adverse reactions, allergies, interactions, and contraindications on a monthly basis.

Advise the prescriber of any medication errors and suggests changes.

Records vital statistics and other pertinent data on consumers; maintains records of same.

Maintains the medication administration record on a daily basis.

Takes temperature, blood pressure, pulse, weight, and other vital signs to detect deviations from normal and determine progress of consumers.

Liaisons with physician, dietitians, hospitals, pharmacies, and the consumers family on all health situations.

Utilize the agency vehicle to conduct visits, escort consumers to appointments, transport food or goods for the consumers home or program sponsored activity.

Responsible for input into CAIRS upon admission, bi-annually and discharge.

Act as a clinical liaison between the team and outside entities.

Document any progress notes in EHR within 48 hours of all client and collateral contacts.

Ensure all documentation is completed in a timely fashion and remain in compliance with agency, OMH, and AOT regulations.

Develop treatment plans with the input of other members of the ACT team and the consumers, if applicable.

Coordinate services with other specialist on the ACT Team, i.e. Family specialist, Employment specialist, Substance abuse specialist, Case manager.

Provides networking and linkages between the programs, mental health providers, requires both telephone and face-to-face contact.

Attend and participate in all team meetings.

Responsible for input into CAIRS upon admission, bi-annually and discharge.

Act as a clinical liaison between the team and outside entities.

Document any progress notes in EHR within 48 hours of all client and collateral contacts.

Ensure all documentation is completed in a timely fashion and remain in compliance with agency, OMH, and AOT regulations.

Assists in the planning, developing and implementation of goals and training to further develop participants skills, including but not limited to:

Budgeting
Grooming
Nutritional planning
Use of public transportation
Use of community resources
Shopping
Housekeeping
Physical health & development
Adaptive behavior/independent living
Nutrition
Vocational development
Social development

Acts as a role model for participants; furthers participants in researching and obtaining community resources appropriate and applicable to their needs and goals; follows-up on any aftercare/recommendations for treatment. Escorts/ accompanies participant as needed on appointments (medical, psychiatric, substance abuse).

Provide crisis intervention and mental health counseling as needed.

Other Responsibilities:

Demonstrate ability to: maintain required written documentations; communicate relevant information to other staff and supervisor(s), verbally and in writing.
Ability to work flexible schedules as…