Overnight Registered Nurse (RN)

Behavioral Health Network, Inc.

$83K — $99K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Nursing
  • Active Massachusetts Registered Nurse License
  • 1+ year of nursing experience preferred
  • Skill in the nursing process for patients and families
  • Collaborative spirit with other caregivers
  • Delegate tasks to skilled peers
  • Knowledge of standards for utilization and review
  • Advocacy skills for patients
  • Experience with addiction and co-occurring disorders
  • Understanding of ethical/legal aspects in substance abuse care
  • Familiarity with quality assurance and CARF standards

Responsibilities

  • Provide direct care to implement patients' care plans
  • Monitor medication self-administration and residents' health
  • Administer detox medications per protocols
  • Educate patients on their illness and treatment
  • Collect data on individual patient status and needs
  • Maintain confidentiality of patient information

Benefits

  • Flexible full-time schedules including rotating weekends
  • Clinical work in a specialized substance use treatment program
  • Opportunity to work with female-identified patients
  • Engagement with a population facing addiction and co-occurring disorders
  • Supportive team-oriented environment
Full Job Description
Overnight Registered Nurse

What You Will Do:
  • Providing direct care within the scope of practice to implement patients' plans of care properly.
  • Monitoring physical and psychiatric medication self-administration and residents' health and milieu staff who oversee medication self-administration.
  • Administering all detoxification medications in accordance with established protocols and orders.
  • Providing individuals served with education regarding their illness, problems, treatment and prognosis.
  • Collecting data related to individual served status and needs.
  • Maintaining strict confidentiality of individuals served information at all times in accordance with 42 CFR.

The New View program at BHN serves female-identified patients who have been civilly committed through the Section 35 court proceeding to a designated substance use disorder treatment facility. The program offers acute treatment services (ATS) and clinical stabilization services (CSS).

Who You Are:
  • Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Nursing (required).
  • Current Nursing License by the Massachusetts Board of Registration as a Registered Nurse (required).
  • At least one year of nursing experience (preferred).
  • Proficiency in applying the nursing process to individuals served and their families.
  • Ability to collaborate with other caregivers.
  • Ability to delegate to peers and other caregivers consistent with their level of expertise.
  • Knowledge of utilization and review standards and implementation.
  • Ability to advocate for individuals served.
  • Ability to understand, empathize and work with an addicted population, including those with co-occurring disorders.
  • Working knowledge of ethics and legal parameters of working with substance abuse individuals.
  • Knowledge of quality assurance standards and CARF standards.


Available Schedules:

Full Time: rotating 2-week schedule, varied days including every other weekend, 3:00pm-11:30pm or 11:00pm-7:30am

Pay Structure:

Full Time/Part Time: $40-$48/hr + applicable shift differentials

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