Charge Nurse

Description

Are you a compassionate Charge Nurse looking to make a real difference? Hanley Foundation in West Palm Beach seeks a skilled charge nurse to join our team at our state-of-the-art substance use/mental health treatment facility. Our non-profit is dedicated to eliminating addiction through prevention, treatment, advocacy, and recovery support. 

The Charge Nurse is responsible for performing a variety of duties to provide quality nursing care to patients and to coordinate total nursing care for patients; for implementing specific procedures and programs; for participating with the Director of Medical Services in establishing specific goals; for determining work procedures and expediting work flow; for ensuring compliance with all operating policies and procedures and Florida Department of Health regulations and Federal Health Care Administration regulations; for communicating with and overseeing appropriate personnel; for providing daily reports and other periodic reports; and for performing all the duties of a Registered Nurse when required.  

Shift: Sun, Monday & Wednesday 7a - 7p

Duties & Responsibilities: 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Supervises and coordinates all nursing and nursing-related activities in the facility while on duty including medication administration. 
• Assume the Charge Nurse role by receiving and giving shift reports, keeping the physician informed of clients’ conditions and needs, monitoring the care of clients by the nursing team, organizing and delegating medical client care needs. 
• Perform/document nursing assessments and screenings including reviewing client histories and documenting a nursing clinical summary on all clients admitted to Hanley Foundation.  
• Assess individual client care needs, initiate medical treatment plan and competently process/implement all care according to physician orders and standards of nursing practice. 
• Utilize safe and effective practices of medication ordering and management as defined by policy and standards of nursing practice.  
• Accurately administer and monitor the effects of medications and conduct accurate controlled medication counts. 
• Processes physician orders in a timely and accurate manner 
• Collect and process lab specimens following proper infection control procedures. 
• Provide appropriate client education as determined by client assessments/needs and treatment plans. 
• Delegates some duties and coordinates care with other direct-care staff to ensure continuity of client care, staff relations, and efficiency of service.   
• Work with department heads in other areas of the facility to provide nursing assistance and staff when needed.    
• Prepares and maintains client medical records including appropriate and timely documentation.   
• Accurately and thoroughly documents in the medical record utilizing approved medical record language and abbreviations adhering to the medical record policies and procedures.  
• Provide thorough and accurate shift report to ensure continuity of client care. 
• Work a flexible schedule based upon service demands.  
• Attend all mandatory trainings as identified by Hanley policy.  
• Complete yearly training requirements and mentor new employees.  
• Attend multi-disciplinary treatment team meetings, as needed. 
• Maintain accurate suboxone/Subutex quality control logs. 
• Order or direct the ordering of drugs, solutions, and equipment.  
• Investigate and resolve complaints, or refers unusual problems, as appropriate. 
• Effectively communicate medical/ nursing issues to clinical/case management team and serves as a resource.   
• Uphold all Hanley Foundation Policies and Procedures. 
• Maintain client/potential client confidentiality in accordance with Hanley Policy. 

Additional Responsibilities: 

• Be responsible for the health, safety, and welfare of clients.  
• Ensures the privacy and confidentiality of all clients and their medical records.  
• Completes duties in a professional and timely manner.  
• Reports all alleged incidents of abuse or neglect in accordance with all state standards and accrediting bodies.  
• Ensures that all records are available for all state and accrediting bodies staff inspection.   
• Ensures and coordinates with the clinical staff’s functioning, to avoid scheduling conflicts for clients, between Administration, Clinical, and programmatic needs or requirements set-forth by the Standards.  
• Stands "On Call" at designated times. 
• Reports directly to the Director of Medical Services and completes orders in a professional and timely manner.  

Supervisory Responsibility: 

This position has shift supervisory responsibilities.  

Work Environment:
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. 

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.  The employee is required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.   

Education/Experience/Qualifications: 

• Associate (ADN) or Bachelors (BSN) degree. 
• Currently licensed as an RN is required. 
• Current CPR/First Aid training/certification. 
• Previous hospital, chemical dependency rehabilitation treatment program, and/or behavioral health experience desired. 
• Previous supervisory experience preferred. 
• If in recovery, one (1) years of continuous sobriety required. 

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: 

• Possess a working knowledge of addictions with age specific client populations preferred. 
• Working knowledge of personal computers and basic software. 
• Must be computer literate and be familiar with most Microsoft products and network components. 
• Must have fluid communication skills. 
• Must possess a high degree of organization skills. 

Competence/Measurements:  

• Family, referral and client satisfaction – documentation/interviews. 
• Compliance with all state standards and accrediting bodies – documentation.