Registered Nurse; RN

Overview

Be the change you wish to see in the world! Come join our team to empower children and families in our communities to transform their lives and develop to their full potential. Pressley Ridge Grant Gardens in Ona, WV, is seeking a Registered Nurse to provide professional nursing care in residential and educational settings. The registered nurse utilizes Comprehensive Nursing Assessments that identify the child’s physical, emotional, and behavioral needs and are developmentally appropriate.

The Registered Nurse demonstrates the ability to perform age-appropriate nursing interventions and evaluations that are therapeutically sound.

• Service Delivery
• Functions as the primary health educator to students
• Functions as liaison with non-Pressley Ridge health care providers, including primary care, specialists, and mental health providers
• Supervises procedures for medication administration
• Provides nursing care based on needs
• Initiates referrals where necessary for routine physical examinations, dental examinations, immunizations; provides screening tests as needed
• Assists with the review and completion of medication administration records
• Implements physician orders
• Provides in-service/training as required
• Functions as a Licensed Professional by conducting face-to-face assessments and evaluations according to Pressley Ridge policy titled Restraint Use in Pennsylvania Residential Treatment Facilities
• Provides consultation on and oversight of the establishment of standard procedures and protocols that create a structured and accountable system of delivery of all medical services, including health education
• Creates and reviews standard practice for standing orders for minor illness and for OTC medications
• Participates with the staff psychiatrist to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate medical interventions
• Regulatory Compliance
• Updates skills and maintain necessary credential(s)
• Demonstrates knowledge of proper documentation and charting procedures and completes in a timely manner
• Adheres to all best practice standards as relates to accreditation and licensing
• Follows all Pressley Ridge policies, procedures and protocols
• Quality Improvement
• Utilizes data for decision making and performance improvement from sources such as Environmental Site Safety committees;
  Client/Caregiver Survey;
  Stakeholder Survey;
  Client Record Reviews;
  Root Cause Analysis;
  Gap Analysis;
  Training Transcripts;
  Interagency Meetings
• Monitors program consistency to Service Line performance indicators and recommendations
• Participates and monitors program adherence to trauma-sensitive, coercion-free model indicators

• Clearances:
  State Police/FBI per state regulations;
  Child Protection
• Requires a valid driver’s license and vehicle insurance
• Requires current State Nursing License
• Requires one year of nursing experience
• Requires a current CPR card
• Experience in a behavioral health setting serving children and/or adolescents, preferred
• Complete pharmacology course

• Registered Nurse (Required)
• Minimum one year of nursing experience; current State Nursing License; graduate of an accredited school of nursing; complete an approved pharmacology course; current CPR card
• Behavioral health setting serving children and/or adolescents preferred

• RN (Required)