Registered Nurse (RN)-ACT

at Elwyn Delaware in Georgetown, Delaware, United States

Job Description

Overview

Join a Team That Changes Lives

For more than 170 years, Elwyn has been leading the way in supporting children, teens, and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and behavioral health challenges. As a mission-driven nonprofit, we're here to create real change - helping people lead meaningful, fulfilling lives.
Now, we're looking for passionate team members to join us. Here, your work will change lives - including your own. You'll make an impact every day, find purpose in what you do, and grow in a career that truly matters.

At Elwyn, we take care of you while you care for others. We offer:
Generous Paid Time Off
Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages
Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay
Paid On-the-Job Training
Tuition Reimbursement
Career Advancement Opportunities and Growth
Flexible Schedules
Retirement Savings Plan

Join us and be a part of something bigger. Apply today.
Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY: As the Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) Registered Nurse, you are a member of a multidisciplinary team, utilizing your nursing skill and experience to assess, plan, develop, coordinate, and provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to (PACT) clients under the clinical supervision of the team leader and the prescriber. A team member equally shares the responsibility to perform various activities and interventions that support (PACT) clients in the community.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Integratesthe Prism Model for effective treatment of serious and persistent mental illnessinto everyday practice and intervention.
Provides person-centered, strength-based, trauma-informed care
Ensures that clients receive effective, understandable, and respectful care that is provided in a manner compatible with client's cultural beliefs and practices and preferred language
Carries out medical functions, including essential health and medical assessment and education; coordination of health care providing clients in the community; psychiatric medical assessment, treatment, and education; and psychotropic medication administration
Acts as a lead nurse, when designated by the team leader, provides nursing supervision to the team.
As assigned, designated as the assigned 'medication nurse' for the day.

Being available to administer medication
Updating medication orders and handling tasks related to medication distribution
Assessing and triaging, in consultation with the team prescriber, any emergent medical problems or needs
Provides medication administration and medical services:
Under the direction of the team prescriber, and in collaboration with other registered nurses on the team, develop, revise, maintain, and supervise team psychopharmacologic and medical treatment and medication policies and procedures, including transcribing, administering, evaluating, and recording medications prescribed by the team prescriber; assess and document medication effectiveness, complications, and side effects; and arrange for required labs according to protocol.
Organizes and manages the system of getting medications to clients, administering and tracking the medication supply, and ordering and offering education to clients to gain knowledge and independence.
Maintains the PACT headquarters medical supplies
Preventative medical care: tracks, educates, links assessed medical/dental needs with a community provider, collaborates with providers, accompanying to appointments, providing support and advocacy.
Along with the team, on an ongoing basis, reviews the required outcomes to evaluate community tenure and independence.
Works with the team to complete the Tool for Measurement of Assertive Community Treatment (TMACT)
Provides service coordination for an assigned group of clients, including coordination and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team (ITT); assumes primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising the overall Community Service Plan in collaboration with the client and ITT; provides therapy utilizing evidence-based practices (i.e., CBT-P, CBT, DBT, CAMS, MI), symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the Community Service Plan as clients' needs change; educate and support clients' families, and advocate for clients rights and preferences.
Works with the team to complete a Comprehensive Assessment as an engagement tool and to understand and respect the client's views of the ways mental illness impacts their life and how they want to... For full info follow application link.

Elwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.