Nurse- Triangle Outpatient Program in Durham

Our vision is a world of peaceful relationships with food, weight, and body image, where everyone with an eating disorder can experience recovery. We believe that exceptional, individualized care leads to lasting recovery from eating disorders. That’s why our teams are comprised of compassionate, dedicated professionals from a variety of backgrounds who collaborate to provide the very best evidence-based care for our clients at all levels of care.

Position Summary: The RN provides holistic and compassionate nursing care as part of an interdisciplinary team to clients with Eating Disorders and other comorbid disorders in an inpatient or residential higher level of care (HLOC) setting or in an outpatient setting with primary focus on clients in day programming (PHP/IDP).

Schedule: Full Time Days: 40 hours/week, 12 hour shifts - 7:00am - 15:30pm, No weekends. Off on major recognized holidays.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides client care through assessment, monitoring, and intervention to address health concerns appropriately.
• Provides medication management including education, assessing adherence, administration in the inpatient and residential setting only, and monitoring for side effects in collaboration with provider.
• Assists and supports medical and psychiatric providers with medical care coordination.
• Provides medical care coordination between patient, provider, staff, family and outside care agencies as needed.
• Serves as a staff resource for client medical needs and information.
• Recognises and appropriately responds to medical and psychiatric emergencies.
• Responsible for accurate and timely documentation in the client medical record.
• Able to follow through with directives provided by a Nurse Manager or Lead Nurse when applicable.
• Partners with team effectively to maximise performance through use of communication skills, knowledge of team dynamics, and adaptation to change to ensure high quality of care.
• Drives clients, staff, and supplies in the company vehicle in emergencies as needed (Inpatient or Residential only).
• Processes refills, laboratory procedures, EKGs, vitals, supply ordering and stocking, and triaging of calls.
• Assists staff to provide a safe environment for patient care.
• Adheres to policies and procedures as defined by the various programs including maintaining client confidentiality and client rights.
• Able to take initiative, utilise critical thinking skills, and resource to work autonomously when needed.
• Provides direction and support to LPNs, CNA 2, and Mas.
• Performs nursing assessments and tasks (e.g. Patient Assessments, Venipuncture/Phlebotomy, EKG placement and capture, Nasogastric Tube Feeds, implementation of provider orders).
• Partners with medical and psychiatric providers to ensure client safety during treatment at Accanto facilities, including appropriate management of medication regimen.
• Partners with nutrition and medical to monitor meal compliance, possible impacts on clients’ health, and actions needed.
• Operates as the Person in Charge during after hours and owns escalation to on-call leadership/providers during after hour periods.
• Partners with the treatment team to create the appropriate treatment plan for each client.
• Partners with BHTs to help with client de-escalations.
• Collaborates with site staff on incident reports.
• Responds to medical concerns in the milieu.
• Performs safety assessments after hours.
• Initiates emergency response/protocols after business hours.
• Initiates nursing interventions to protect client safety.
• Makes appropriate client accommodations for group attendance based on medical concerns.

Qualifications:

• Associate's or Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
• Current licensure in state practicing or compact as a Registered Nurse.
• Must have valid driver's license and be authorised to drive.
• Current Basic Life Support certification required (American Heart Association) within 15 days from date of hire.

Skills & Competencies:

• Competence with Information Technology (basic computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite, Electronic Health Record, Microsoft Teams).
• Vital sign and physical assessments.
• NG tube placement training (inpatient only).

Workplace Environment:

• Standing 50% and sitting 50%.
• Bending, twisting, kneeling, stooping or crouching when appropriate, and handling objects with hands and/or fingers, talking and/or hearing, and seeing.
• Lift, carry, push or pull up to approx. 40 pounds (supplies, etc.).

What we offer:

Employee Benefits: We understand the importance of a well-rounded benefits package. That’s why we’re dedicated to providing a range of plans to meet your needs. For full-time employees, we offer:

• HSA and PPO insurance with HSA or FSA options (Blue Cross Blue Shield).
• Dental insurance (Delta Dental).
• Vision insurance (EyeMed).
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Company-paid life insurance.
• 401(k) plan available two months after start date.
• Company 401(k) matching for up to 50% of your contribution, up to 6% of your compensation.
• Paid time off is a crucial part of maintaining work and life balance. Our generous PTO plan accrues annually and begins with your first whole pay period. Eligible employees enjoy seven paid holidays and one floating holiday in addition to their regular PTO.