Program Nurse

Green Castle Recovery Centers, LLC • Marne, MI • 2d ago

Ready to make a meaningful impact every day? Join Sanford Behavioral Health as a Program Nurse and be a vital part of a caring team dedicated to supporting clients on their journey to recovery. Use your nursing skills to promote healing, hope, and wellness in a warm and collaborative environment.

Full-time & Part-time available. Base hourly pay is $33.00-$39.40.

Competitive shift differentials:

Sunday-Thursday 7:00pm-7:00am: $3.50

Friday & Saturday 7:00pm-7:00am: $6.00

Saturday & Sunday 7:00am-7:00pm: $3.25

Responsibilities Include

Ensures clients remain medically stable and continuously assesses appropriate level of care using level of care guidelines.

Trains, supports, and communicates with resident support specialists and recovery technicians on medication administration as well as with other job functions.

Communicates client concerns to the provider daily, which includes but is not limited to, acute withdrawal symptoms, medication effectiveness, medication side effects, and/or abnormal vital signs.

Works closely with interdisciplinary treatment team to ensure client safety and comfort. This includes clinicians, safety officers, recovery technicians, resident support specialists, and administration.

Performs daily assessments on residential and partial hospitalization clients regarding their substance use disorder, mental health illness, eating disorder, or other medical concerns that may arise.

Identifies medical parameters that require additional intervention, or staffing with provider, including laboratory values, vital signs, and one-on-one conversation or observation of behavior.

Assesses client suicidality and possibility of danger to self or others.

Provides effective communication by directing clients in a clear, concise, and informative manner.

Safely administers medications, including narcotics through identifying mechanism of action, contraindications, and interactions of medications used to treat alcohol and drug withdrawal.

Educates clients on medications, as needed.

De-escalates clients and therapeutically responds to clinical signs/symptoms of withdrawal including increased anxiety, irritability, agitation, and aggression while maintaining professional boundaries and fostering a trusting nurse to client relationship.

Utilizes an electronic medical record (EMR) system for all documentation.

Obtains appropriate orders from the provider and submits e-prescriptions as needed for all clients.

Completes documentation and medication ordering in a timely manner.

Works with local emergency departments on coordinating care and incoming transfers.

Protects patients' rights by maintaining confidentiality of medical, personal, and financial information.

Meets regularly with the interdisciplinary team to discuss client treatment.

Counts all controlled medications every shift and logs appropriately in the medication log.

Ensures all orders from providers are carried out and any information about clients and their wellbeing is promptly and clearly communicated to providers as well as during treatment team meetings.

Completes admission and discharge paperwork.

Assists in other units/departments when there are changes in census, staffing or a need for a higher level of care than what current staffing can provide, as needed.

Transports clients using a company vehicle when other staff members are unavailable.

Performs blood draws, as ordered by the provider.

Collects samples for urinalysis and urine drug screens.

Obtains vital signs or orthostatic vital signs, as needed.

Attends and stays up to date on trainings and policies, like Handle With Care, Basic Life Support (BLS), and H

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