RN Residential Recovery

Overview
RN Opportunitiy at Huntington Creek Recovery Center for Night Shift

• 12 hr shifts
• 7pm - 7am

Full-time Perks

• Great work/life balance
• Engagement events, appreciation events, and celebrations for both team and personal successes.
• No on-call, your time is yours
• Paid Time off: Vacation, Sick, Extended Sick, Personal Days and Holidays

About Huntington Creek Recovery Center
Nestled on 40 acres of land in the scenic mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania, Huntington Creek Recovery Center provides comprehensive residential treatment to individuals who are struggling with substance use disorders and certain co-occurring mental health concerns. At our facility, we provide evidence-based care to adolescents and adults age 18 and older of all genders who make the courageous decision to seek treatment that will ultimately lead to long-term recovery. Using a patient-centered approach and personalized elements of care that may include detoxification services, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and biofeedback, Huntington Creek Recovery Center is ready to help you find the path to improved health and well-being.
What Makes Huntington Creek Recovery Center Different?
At Huntington Creek Recovery Center, we empower our patients by helping to identify, assess, and develop strategies for overcoming all the obstacles that have prevented them from living a sober life. Our personalized treatment plans bring out the strengths in each patient and incorporate a variety of experiential therapies, which are active, immersive, and hands-on activities. These may include art therapy, acupuncture, campfire groups, hiking, meditation, ropes courses, nature walks, team-building exercises, volleyball, and yoga. They provide excellent opportunities for patients to learn new ways to express themselves and process their emotions in our serene setting on the banks of the Susquehanna River.
Responsibilities
REGISTERED NURSE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Provide and coordinate care by assessing patients' physical and behavioral health needs.
• Develop and implement nursing care plans.
• Maintain medical records and educate patients and their families about various physical and behavioral health conditions.
• Provide nursing care and services within the standards and scope of nursing practice as defined within the state Nurse Practice Act regulations, policies, procedures, and protocols, as well as facility and corporate policies and procedures.
• Ensure physicians' orders are legible if taken verbally and transcribed appropriately per policy and procedure.
• Ensure patients' status is assessed on an ongoing basis and pertinent information is gathered and documented.
• Notify physicians of significant changes in status such as difficulties with detox, medical emergency, change in medical status regarding response to medications, and related challenges.
• Ensure that initial nursing treatment plans are completed upon admission and that all nursing treatment plans are specific to assessed needs.
• Demonstrate knowledge and utilization of universal precautions in providing direct patient care.
• Accurately administer medications per ordered note.
• Document accurate count of controlled substance medication administration on required documents.
• Complete admission and discharge processing efficiently and accurately as directed.
• Exhibit therapeutic rapport with patients by maintaining professional boundaries, respecting personal space, giving patients direct attention, and maintaining rational detachment.
• Provide direction or coordinate the activities of the unit as directed.
• Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patients, visitors, co-workers, and others involved inpatient treatment.

Qualifications
EDUCATION/LICENSURE/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS

• Must have graduated from an accredited school of nursing.
• Must possess a current Registered Nurse (RN) license as required by the state of employment or be eligible to practice nursing in accordance with state requirements
• One year of nursing experience; previous psychiatric, mental, behavioral, or substance abuse nursing experience a plus
• CPR and de-escalation and restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).
• First aid may be required based on state or facility requirements.

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