What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse position at Landmark Recovery?
Registered Nurse
We’re looking for a RN who is excited to join our passionate, authentic and courageous team. We’re uncompromising in the pursuit of excellence: our core values are more than just words on a page - we live and breathe them. To work at Landmark Recovery is to make a promise to help our patients achieve their wildest dreams. Our mission is to unlock human potential and save a million lives over the next hundred years.
Landmark Recovery operates Residential Treatment Programs for individuals with Substance Abuse Disorder. We seek not merely to restore sobriety, but to transform our patients’ worlds from a state of everlasting darkness to vibrant technicolor. We believe that treatment is local, individualized, holistic and relational. We’re currently in several states and are rapidly growing nationally. Learn more at https://landmarkrecovery.com/.
Responsibilities
The RN monitors patients at all times, ensuring safety and compliance with program protocols. The individual assesses patients continually to evaluate changes in acuity and physical state, relaying critical information to physicians or nurse practitioners as needed, and making recommendations about transfer to higher levels of care as needed.
- Knowledgeable in all floor nurse duties and tasks in order to assist on any unit in the building as needed.
- Place orders to toxicology laboratories, blood analysis laboratories, and pharmacy
- Receive and analyze results from laboratories
- Communicate laboratory results to physician or Nurse Practitioner
- Receive and store all orders from pharmacy in accordance with facility policies
- Take and record patient vital signs according to schedule and policy
- Assess patient symptoms regularly, report condition changes to physician if change in care plan may be necessary
- Dispense medications to patients as needed, according to schedule, and in line with facility policies
- Respond to medical emergencies and call physician as needed for orders
- Screen patients upon admission and work with physician to determine whether patient is appropriate for admission
- Supervise patient monitoring station or delegate to other staff as necessary
- Monitor on-site narcotics to prevent theft or abuse
- Lead patient community meeting as necessary in absence of available Patient Engagement Specialist
- Perform all other tasks assigned by supervisor
- Assist or lead patient Intake process as needed
Qualifications
- Associates degree or higher
- Active Registered Nursing License or Practical Nursing License
- Minimum 2 years prior experience in nursing mental health setting preferred
- Chemical Dependency Treatment experience preferred
- Certified in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) preferred
- Personal passion or interest in substance abuse issues strongly preferred
- Must be committed to drug-free lifestyle and responsible alcohol use