Charge Nurse

Who you are:

MP's partner is looking for a passionate, kindhearted, empathetic and experienced Charge Nurse with either a current LPN or RN licensure to join their team of like-minded individuals. Is your passion for helping others in the forefront? Do you have respect for human dignity and vulnerability? Are you a compassionate individual who thrives in a team-oriented environment? If so, this opportunity could be a perfect fit!

What you will be doing:

Responsible for the oversight and provision of overall patient care, documentation, and organization of the unit. Provides direct and indirect patient care services that meet the psychosocial, physical and general aspects of patient care. Meets the communication needs of patient and family. Knowledgeable of a wide range of disorders; cognitive, emotional, developmental, social and behavioral. Provides care that reflects initiative and responsibility indicative of professional expectations. Performs crisis intervention. Participates in the unit's performance improvement activities.

Our ideal candidate has:

• Supervises and directs the activities of nursing on a given shift to ensure all duties are performed according to facility job descriptions and policy. Responsible for completing performance evaluation activities within the department in a timely manner.
• Ensures all shifts are adequately staffed by obtaining coverage for call-ins. Able to appropriately schedule staff according to census and acuity within FTE guidelines. Review direct report timesheets to ensure the punches accurate and complete.
• Ensures, through monitoring and supervision, the accuracy of the narcotic count for the unit assigned as a Charge Nurse.
• Ensures that the nursing staff are engaged with the facilities patients throughout the shift as evidenced by the staff's knowledge of the patients through their ongoing review of the clinical record and observing the staffs' direct interaction with the patients.
• Performs patient care responsibilities considering needs specific to the standard of care for the patient's age and clinical condition.
• Adequately assesses and reassesses pain. Utilizes appropriate pain management techniques. Educates the patient and family regarding pain management.
• Continuously observes patient's behavior, mental status and activities.

• Efficiently performs waived testing as required.

• Performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
• Responds to the patient in an appropriate way in distressful situations. Demonstrates the ability to perform appropriate crisis modalities for patient behavior that requires redirecting, including those who wish to leave treatment against medical advice.
• Communicates appropriately and clearly to co-workers and physicians. Maintains a good working relationship both within the department and with other departments. Consults other departments, as appropriate, to provide for an interdisciplinary approach to the patient's needs.
• Functions as a patient and family advocate at all times. Treats patients and families with respect and dignity; provides emotional support. Provides education to the patient and family concerning treatment plans, compliance with the treatment plan, medications and their side effects.
• Follows the five (5) medication rights and reduces the potential for medication errors.
• Formulates and implements patient treatment plans; family is included when appropriate. Demonstrates ability to revise the treatment plan as indicated by the patient's response to treatment and evaluate overall plan daily for effectiveness.
• Completes lab requisitions and collects urine for toxicology. Orders medications from pharmacy; fax admission orders to pharmacy, orders schedule II medications, and completes pharmacology test.
• Signs out controlled substances, documents and reports effects of scheduled and PRN medications. Completes narcotic count with proper documentation.
• Ensures documentation meets current standards and policies. Demonstrates complete documentation on census board.
• Performs anatomical assessment in a timely manner.
• Prepares and presents reports to nurses and BHA's to oncoming shift.
• Supports and empowers staff to embrace the mission and value statements of the organization.
• Ensures that effective searches are completed upon admission by randomly observing and supervising nursing staff as they conduct searches.
• Performs other duties as assigned within the scope of practice.

About our client:

Community and collaboration are the core principles of our partner's addiction facilities. When we use the strength of those around us, we can grow stronger ourselves. Our partner's Treatment Centers know that each individual has different struggles and every journey in recovery is unique. Therefore, the treatment plans they develop are tailored and customized for each specific situation. The therapeutic methods they employ at their addiction treatment centers empower patients to make meaningful changes in their own lives, as well as the lives of those around them.

MP's partner is a family of individuals that come from diverse backgrounds; however, addiction affects all of us in the same way. It devastates lives and families. Our partner came together with a simple mission: to help people break free from the bonds of addiction. We are not a "one size fits all" program, and we have the experienced staff and infrastructure to offer individualized treatment plans to best meet the needs of each individual who comes through our doors.

Additional information:

• Highly appreciated staff
• 1 free meal every shift
• Onsite gym and personal trainer for free
• Fantastic culture within our team
• Salary: LPN ranges from $20.53-$30.79/hourly
• Salary: RN ranges from $34.26-$51.40/hourly
• Schedule: Nights/7:00 pm-7:00 am Thursday, Friday, Saturday