Job Description
Position Summary:
The Registered Nurse works in a dynamic multidisciplinary team providing treatment services according to the Discovery Behavioral Health Clinical Model.
Essential Job Functions:
* Meets with each potential new admission and completes face to face assessment. Screens for medical appropriateness for admission to facility and consults with the medical/psychiatric provider to receive orders for admission. Supports the process by checking belongings, providing searches, etc. as needed.
* Completes initial nursing assessment and full medical admission process upon admission for each patient.
* Ensures all orders from medical/psychiatric providers are carried out.
* Ensure that all patients have signed informed consent for medications prior to the 1 st dose.
* Administers medications as prescribed and administers PRN medications and documents effectiveness within timelines.
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