Registered Nurse (RN)
Are you a great mental health nurse with strong relationship building and communication skills? Chesapeake Integrated Behavioral Healthcare is seeking a Psychiatric Registered Nurse (RN) II for our Outpatient Services Clinic. As the City That Cares, we value a healthy work-life balance! The Psychiatric Registered Nurse (RN) II position collaboratively supervises the Psych Services Unit with no evening, weekend, holiday, on-call or after hour responsibilities...and more than 12 paid holidays a year! Come join our team in the #1 most trusted profession-Nursing!

Typical Tasks Include but are not limited to:

• Perform nursing assessments of adults, as well as children, with mental health, substance use or co-occurring disorder who are receiving medication management services in an outpatient setting
• Administration of injectable medications, completion of primary care screenings, (height, weight and BMI) and follow up if recommended, assess and recording vital signs.
• Provide medication education, crisis intervention and resource information.
• Performs Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) assessments such as Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS)
• Coordinate care with both internal (therapists, Case Managers) and external providers, which may include but not limited to coordination of care with primary care providers (PCP)
• Complete urine drug screens (UDS), administer breathalyzer testing, as well as blood glucose monitoring as ordered by providers.
• Assists Program Supervisor in the supervision of nursing staff including selecting or recommending selection, training, assignment, and evaluation of work, counseling, disciplining, and terminating or recommending termination.
• Completes all necessary paperwork in accordance with agency, state and federal regulations
• Assists Nursing Supervisor with planning, coordinating, directing and supervising processes within the unit.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure for a full list of benefits and employee perks.

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