Psychiatric Nurse Specialty in LGBTQ+ $5,000 retention bonus

This position is eligible for a $5,000 retention bonus.

Job Summary:

The Providence Center Psychiatric Nurse Specialty in LGBTQ+ will assess and provide prescribed treatment for psychiatrically disabled individuals, working as part of a team. The focus of this position will be on the LGBTQ+ population with special attention to the Hispanic/Latin X and other underserved populations. Specific population will include adults with serious mental illness (SMI), adults who have co-occurring mental illness and physical health conditions such as chronic disease, individuals with substance use disorder, and individuals with co-occurring disorders.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Address the unique needs of individuals and co-occurring disorders (e.g., substance abuse, developmental and/or physical disabilities, personality disorders, trauma, brain injury, etc.) that consumers have.

Perform psychiatric nursing in accordance with appropriate medical protocol.

Provide accurate and timely information about medications and their side effects to the client and relevant others.

Use medication maintenance strategies, determining that the doctor’s orders have been accurately transcribed, implementing appropriately the prescribed medical regimen, monitoring lab results to validate medication compliance and assessing any aspect of the consumer’s treatment regimen that endangers the level of wellness, communicating questionable aspects of consumer care to appropriate persons.

Use physical assessment skills to determine related nursing interventions, including when medication exacerbates medical conditions and recognition of basic medical problems.

Inform and educate consumers about mental illness, medication, coping skills, their rights as clients, services, community resources, self-help and the consumer movement.

Utilize best practices of intervention and support strategies.

Teaches both simple and complex skills, including physical, social, cognitive emotional, and other relevant skills.

Incorporate consumer choice in treatment.

Make period reassessments and if warranted, change treatment plans.

Demonstrate appropriate use of range of crisis prevention and intervention strategies, including crisis prevention and intervention, risk assessment, hospital alternative, hospitalization, and assessment of self care, performing calmly and professionally during crisis or emergency situations.

Coordinate activities regarding consumer hospitalization, serving as liaison wit the hospital regarding admission, case review, and discharge.

Comply with written clinical procedures and professional standards.

Demonstrate current knowledge of issues and characteristics related to mental illness and its treatments.

Integrate societal, cultural, racial, gender, and other issues related to mental illness and its treatments.

Keep current about new developments in psychotropic medication and other biological in