Job Information
Carlsbad LifeHouse Inc PRN Nurse in Carlsbad, New Mexico
Veterans Preference: To ensure compliance with the Jobs for Veterans Act, this job posting will be available only to veterans for 24-48 hours. After this period, the job will be released to all job seekers.
Qualifications for the position include but are not limited to:
- RN or LPN license in the State of New Mexico.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire.
**Salary:$30.00 - $36.00 per hour
Reporting Supervisor:Charge Nurse
Duties:
- Assess admissions of new Detox and RTC clients, with EMR-Bear documentation.
- Continuous assessment of Detox patients to determine need for further medical intervention.
- Ongoing monitoring of Detox and RTC clients within the facility throughout the client's stay.
- Oversight of Med Tech performing vital signs and distribution of medications.
- Communication with Charge Nurse or on-call provider about immediate needs of clients.
- Maintaining stock medications, and ordering client and stock medications from facility pharmacy.
- Counting of controlled medications each shift with Med Techs to verify controlled medication count is accurate.
- Tracking outside appointments for RTC clients and ensuring clients are taken to outside appointments, including laboratory appointments for testing.
- Education of clients and other staff on medications, diet, and healthy lifestyle choices.
- May be necessary to team-lift up to 75 pounds.
- Other duties as assigned by Charge Nurse, Medical Director, or other leadership staff.
- Only RN can do IV push medication.
**Employment Hours: As needed - Sunday through Saturday, 12-hour shifts
Required training for Position:
- HIPAA
- Reporting
- Boundaries
- Cultural Awareness and Competency
- Universal Precautions
- CPI
- COVID
- Mental Health First Aid
- Other training is LifeHouse requests