What will your day look like?At Horizon, you'll enjoy a supportive, team-based work environment. Have a question? There's always someone there to help! We offer a seamless onboarding experience that'll ensure your success in your new role.
As a RN at Horizon, you will...
- Assess patient needs and develops a nursing care plan for care coordination and linkage with community resources.
- Complete medical assessments for behavioral health and substance use disorder patients, provides integration/health education, and develops a nursing care plan to provide holistic and individualized treatment to address each patient's needs.
- Administer IM medications to patients while providing education regarding purpose and use of medication, assessing patients' presentation compared to baseline, and noting any progress or decompensation in symptoms.
- Assist patients in achieving their treatment goals through health education. Will provide one-on-one education to patients and provide nursing education through group meetings.
- Provide phlebotomy and EKG services along with education to patient regarding purpose of testing.
- Provide a therapeutic environment and fosters a team approach with multidisciplinary staff.
- Evaluate patient responses to treatment and provides reports to physicians, nurse practitioners, and counselors of both objective and subjective data of patient behaviors.
- Utilize nursing diagnosis, identifies priorities of care, sets realistic short-term goals and outcomes, monitors progress toward goals and adjusts care coordination accordingly.
- Implement nursing actions that promote, maintain, and encourage healthy lifestyle behaviors.
- Work collaboratively with the team and identifies goals, lifestyle and behavioral modifications, and appropriate nursing interventions for each patient.
- Identify health education needs and knowledge deficits of the patient. Provides appropriate health teaching through multimedia materials, documents health teaching and responses in the group notes.
- Identify patient needs for community services and provide linkage.
- Develop professional interpersonal relationships with the members of the multidisciplinary team, patients, and families.
- Attend and participate in all staff meetings and mandatory in-services. Provides appropriate ideas and suggestions to improve the process or operations of the facility.
- Demonstrate proficiency and accuracy in the administration of all ordered medications and knowledge of appropriate use of medication and adverse effects.
- Assist Medical/Psychiatric providers with integration, medication management, and psychiatric visits.
- Demonstrate proficiency in computer skills and provides accurate documentation for medical records/EMR.
- Have the ability to follow physician/provider orders and recommendations for medical treatment of patients.
- Provide a safe environment for patients, staff, and families and considers safety in all interactions.
- Identify and triages medical emergencies and secures appropriate medical treatment for patients, family, or staff.
- Attend educational conferences and webinars and seeks out opportunities for professional growth and development including attainment of advanced degrees and certifications.
- Demonstrate proper procedure and technique during venipuncture, collection, and processing of blood samples and collection and testing of urine toxicology and HCG samples.
- Be comfortable providing telehealth services.
What makes you a great candidate? We can't wait to learn more about you! Here are a few specifics of what you'll need for the job:
- Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university with a Nursing degree - associate degree preferred.
- Candidates must have a current New York State professional nursing license to practice as a Registered Nurse.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Registered Nurse (RN) required.
OR - At least 1 year of experience in addiction treatment or psychiatric nursing required.
- 6 months of phlebotomy experience required.
- Experience working with mental health and substance use disorder patients preferred.
- Experience with adolescent/children population.
- Certificate of CPR/AED Training and First Aid.
LocationThis position is located at our 637 Davison Rd, Lockport NY. Travel to other clinics may be required as needed.
HoursThis is a full-time position from Monday-Friday with some evenings until 6:00pm.
Compensation:Horizon is consistently evaluating our compensation and benefit packages to ensure we remain competitive. The range of pay for this position is $38.55 - $41.00. Starting pay may be impacted based on experience and education. Compensation adjustments are evaluated annually.
New Horizon Employees hired in this position entails eligibility for a sign-on bonus of up to $5,000 for your commitment to work at our Horizon Certified Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHC) located at our Pine Avenue Recovery Center and Lockport Recovery Centers for at least one year. A change in scheduled hours or location of employment may impact eligibility of bonus.
