Licensed Practical Nurse - Y - Mon - Fri

Overview

Make and Impact. At Well Life Network, your clinical expertise helps individuals achieve wellness, recovery, and independence. Join a compassionate team of professionals dedicated to providing person-centered care across behavioral health, developmental disabilities, and community-based programs. Here, your skills make a real difference - one life, one family, and one community at a time.

Position Summary

A clinical staff member who, in addition to performing routine team duties, has lead responsibility for evaluating the needs of assigned consumers for treatment; supervises and renders general nursing care (e.g., administers injections and medications) on an on-going basis. Provide psychiatric and medical assessment and treatment; and development, maintenance, and supervision of medication and psychiatric treatment.

• Assist the prescriber on the team with assessment of client physical health, making appropriate referrals to community physicians for further assessment and treatment, and coordinating medical treatments with psychiatric treatment.
• Complete nursing assessment within 30 days of admission and yearly thereafter.
• Collaborate with the treatment team in comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history, mental status, and diagnosis; physical and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living and family structure and relationships.
• Perform individual, group and family supportive therapy and illness education in the process of carrying out the tasks above.
• Transcribes the prescribers medication orders; administers prescribed injections and medications as needed. Observes consumer, records significant conditions and reactions, and notifies current prescriber of consumers condition and reaction to drugs, treatments, and significant incidents.
• Monitor and draw labs for clients as needed.
• Instructs consumers about daily medications (e.g., names of drugs, dosages, interactions, benefits). Reviews medication record of each consumer for potential adverse reactions, allergies, interactions, and contraindications on a monthly basis.
• Advise the prescriber of any medication errors and suggests changes.
• Records vital statistics and other pertinent data on consumers; maintains records of same.
• Maintains the medication administration record on a daily basis.
• Takes temperature, blood pressure, pulse, weight, and other vital signs to detect deviations from normal and determine progress of consumers.
• Liaisons with physician, dietitians, hospitals, pharmacies, and the consumers family on all health situations.
• Utilize the agency vehicle to conduct visits, escort consumers to appointments, transport food or goods for the consumers home or program sponsored activity.
• Responsible for input into CAIRS upon admission, bi-annually and discharge.
• Act as a clinical liaison between the team and outside entities.
• Document any progress notes in EHR within 48 hours of all client and collateral contacts.
• Ensure all documentation is completed in a timely fashion and remain in compliance with agency, OMH, and AOT regulations.
• Develop treatment plans with the input of other members of the ACT team and the consumers, if applicable.
• Coordinate services with other specialist on the ACT Team, i.e. Family specialist, Employment specialist, Substance abuse specialist, Case manager.
• Provides networking and linkages between the programs, mental health providers, requires both telephone and face-to-face contact;
• Attend and participate in all team meetings.
• Responsible for input into CAIRS upon admission, bi-annually and discharge.
• Act as a clinical liaison between the team and outside entities.
• Document any progress notes in EHR within 48 hours of all client and collateral contacts.
• Ensure all documentation is completed in a timely fashion and remain in compliance with agency, OMH, and AOT regulations.
• Assists in the planning, developing and implementation of goals and training to further develop participants skills, including but not limited to:
• Budgeting
• Grooming
• Nutritional planning
• Use of public transportation
• Use of community resources
• Shoppin…