Registered Nurse - Gateway

The Registered Nurse is responsible for providing professional nursing services to diverse populations and works closely with a multidisciplinary team to plan, coordinate, and deliver medication services that are culturally sensitive, recovery-oriented and trauma-informed. The Registered Nurse position requires the ability to be flexible and handle competing priorities. This position reports directly to the Nurse Manager with overall supervision provided by the Medical Director. Required annual service hours are 1352.

QUALIFICATIONS

ESSENTIAL

Education/Licensure

• Current licensure with the state of Wisconsin as a Registered Nurse

Typical Physical Demands

• May require driving, sitting, standing, light lifting, bending, and reaching; and the ability to use and operate standard office equipment, including computer, calculator, phone, printer, cell phone, facsimile, etc.

Working Conditions

• May require evening or weekend hours depending on program and consumer’s needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

A.  DELIVERY OF CLINICAL SERVICES

1. Ensure that services are culturally sensitive, promote principles of recovery, are trauma informed and promote consumer participation.
2. Work with case managers, therapists, registered nurses, and prescribers to ensure that medication is integrated into consumer recovery plans.
3. Maintain contact with consumers to a degree sufficient to monitor and assess progress towards medication compliance.
4. Assess medical/mental status and side effects and report observations back to the clinical team.
5. Contribute to the functioning of the clinical teams in all programs, supporting and covering for other team members as necessary while engaged in nursing duties including answering the phones, monitoring areas where medication is dispensed, processing refill requests, supporting medication evaluations from prescribers, and performing nursing triage duties.
6. Participate in arranging crisis management services as clinically and programmatically appropriate and necessary.
7. Coordinate clinical services with those of other JMHC areas and outside agencies and assist in problem resolution around clinical issues.
8. In coordination with the clinical team assist in coordinating admissions and discharges.

B.  ADMINISTRATIVE 

1. Participate in program meetings, training programs and other designated program functions.
2. Participate in JMHC-wide training programs and community education as assigned.
3. Complete all other assignments/duties as assigned by the respective programs supervisory team, the Nurse Manager, and the Medical Director.
4. Complete time keeping/timecard daily.

The above statements are not to be interpreted as an exhaustive list but are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by this employee.