Registered Nurse - RN

Overview

Job Title:

Registered Nurse – RN

We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Registered Nurse – RN to join our team. If you are passionate about providing care to youth in need and want to join a top-notch team, please apply today! We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, vision insurance and a 401k.

Youth Opportunity Investments - Roane Youth Academy

Youth Opportunity is a nationally recognized leader in residential and behavioral health treatment for at-risk youth. Roane Youth Academy in Rockwood, Tennessee, is a 56-bed Youth Academy providing trauma-informed residential care for boys ages 12 to 17. The center combines intensive mental health and sub-acute psychiatric treatment with structured education, art, music, and recreation therapies, alongside medical and clinical services delivered 24/7 in small group living units.

Youth typically remain in care for 3 to 6 months for intensive mental health services (or 30 to 60 days for sub-acute psychiatric treatment), participating in individual, family, and group therapy; social and life skills training; victim-impact awareness; restorative justice programming; and pre-vocational preparation. Programming is designed to support emotional stabilization, family engagement, and successful reintegration into home and community settings.

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Job Type: Full Time

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance eligible after 60 days of employment
• 401k with 100% match up to 4% of your salary after 60 days of employment
• Paid Time Off and 7 Paid Holidays (for full-time employees)
• Tuition Assistance and Opportunities for Growth

As a Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for providing high-quality nursing care to our residents, including administering medication, monitoring vital signs, and providing emotional support to residents and their families. You will work closely with our interdisciplinary team, including physicians, therapists, and social workers, to develop and implement individualized care plans for residents.

• Provide care education to patients in person or over the phone.
• Adhere to compliance guidelines throughout processes (OSHA, FDA, HIPAA)
• Triage illness and injuries at each shift, determine medical priority and treat within the scope of nursing practice.
• Monitor and/or administer medications.
• Conduct required health screenings.
• During orientation and on an annual basis, staff members and youth will receive instruction on the exposure control plan, which includes standard precautions, blood borne pathogens, and how communicable diseases are spread.
• Document health care progress, problems, needs, and recommendations.

• Coordinate with safety teams quarterly mock emergency drills on a number of emergency situations with detailed debriefing and critiques.
• Provide staff training as required by state agency. Examples of training may include, but are not limited to first aid, universal precautions, use of epi-pens, and medication review for those staff cleared to monitor self-administration of medications. CPR training may also be provided if the nurse is a certified CPR trainer.
• Maintain “Controlled Drug Book”, assuring that agency required forms are being used and signed by staff when medication is administered and when nurse or cleared representatives are conducting shift-to-shift medication counts.
• Participate in treatment team staffing as needed.
• Maintain health/first aid supplies, including, but not limited to the ordering epi-pens and bandaging units, ordering, and stocking other supplies, monitoring expiration dates, and monitoring/maintaining of Automatic External Defibrillator (AED).
• Participate in training and development activities as required to maintain licensure (based on state board of nursing recommendations).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education:

Must have a license as a professional Registered Nurse which shall have included clinical nursing, practice in nursing supervision, nursing education, nursing management or public health nursing.

Experience:

Three years’…