Nurse Lead

Description

Job Title: Nurse Manager Employment Status: Hourly

Reports To: Director of Nursing

MISSION STATEMENT: Leading adolescents to a new legacy.

The mission of CLEARFORK ACADEMY is to offer the highest quality and professional, substance abuse and mental health

treatment across a full continuum of care.

We are committed to treating patients and their families with the highest regard and respect as clients work toward reaching their

highest growth potential in their recovery process. This is accomplished through the strict adherence to the highest ethical standards

of care and policies and procedures set forth by the Texas Department of State of Health Services and the Joint Commission.

•  CLEARFORK ACADEMY ensures all clients are treated with compassion, respect, and dignity regardless of race, creed, age, sex, handicaps, or sexual orientation.
•  CLEARFORK ACADEMY employees are competent and responsible personnel who adhere to a strict code of professional ethics which include but are not limited to the prohibition of fraternization with patients, exploitation of clients, or any criminal behaviors.
•  CLEARFORK ACADEMY provides clients with accurate and complete information regarding the available services including the program rules, regulations, goals and objectives of the program.
•  Appropriate availability of alternative treatment modalities is made at any time before during or after treatment if they are requested or the client’s needs are out of the scope of our practice.
•  CLEARFORK ACADEMY will ensure that discharge from treatment is conducted in accordance with Texas rule standards.
•  CLEARFORK ACADEMY provides both Texas and Joint Commission environment of care standards.
•  CLEARFORK ACADEMY will take all necessary and appropriate measures to maintain individual client records and information in a confidential and professional manner.
•  CLEARFORK ACADEMY strives to maintain positive relations with the surrounding community and pursues every reasonable action to encourage responsible client behaviors and community safety. 

SUMMARY

The Nurse Lead at CLEARFORK ACADEMY is responsible for assessing clients in an inpatient drug and alcohol treatment

program and administering medication according to state, accreditation, and facility policies and procedures. The Nurse Manager

works directly with the Director of Nursing, Recovery Coaches, and other clinical staff and medical staff to ensure nursing

components of the organization are appropriately coordinated. The Nurse Lead is also responsible for performing advanced

indirect and selected direct patient care duties in support of the clinical process in a competent manner and completing any

associated clerical functions. The Nurse Lead serves as the senior medical staff member when the Director of Nursing is away

AGE/PATIENT POPULATION(S) SERVED

Age of Patient Population Served: Adolescent and Young Adult Males

Population Served: Persons meeting DSM 5 criteria for substance use disorders with or without co-occurring psychiatric illness

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

•  Delivers appropriate indirect and selected direct patient care at a competent level as directed by the Director of Residential Services and/or director, physician, or registered nurse within the scope of approved LVN skills inventory according to the needs/age of the patient/population served; collaborates with other members of the healthcare team to plan, expedite, and promote quality patient care; employs critical thinking skills when identifying and responding to patient needs.
•  Performs, monitors, and documents vital signs. Collects urine drug screens on all admissions and random UDS on all RTC, PHP and IOP patients, as appropriate. Attends facility/community meetings and groups, conducts Program Orientation, searches belongings, collects unauthorized items to be placed in a secured area; conducts patient rounds and perimeter checks to ensure the safety of all patients.
•  Ensures safe care to patients adhering to policies, procedures, and standards of care.
•  Performing, completing, and validating assessments, utilizing proper grammar, spelling, and complete sentences without using unapproved abbreviations.
•  Administering and documenting vital signs, CIWAs, COWS, fall assessments/precautions, seizure precautions, suicidal/homicidal assessments, nutritional assessments, pain scales, anxiety scales, craving scales, standard and infection control precautions.
•  Observation, documentation, audit functions, education, and record keeping of all observed, inventoried, destroyed, and prescribed medications.
•  Administering medications via oral, sublingual, inhalation, auricular, topical, vaginal, and rectal routes and performing scheduled and