Registered Nurse - Eating Disorder

The Registered Nurse works in a dynamic multidisciplinary team providing treatment services according to the Discovery Behavioral Health Clinical Model

• Meets with each potential new admission and completes face to face assessment. Screens for medical appropriateness for admission to facility and consults with the medical/psychiatric provider to receive orders for admission.
• Ensures all orders from medical/psychiatric providers are carried out.
• Ensure that all patients have signed informed consent for medications prior to the 1st dose.
• Administers medications as prescribed and administers PRN medications and documents effectiveness within timelines.
• Meets regularly with medical staff and treatment team to discuss patient care, needs and interventions.
• Provides assessment of medical problems as needed.
• Performs vital signs, basic evaluative procedures, blood draws and tests.
• Maintains NG tube and administers bolus feeds when appropriate.
• Responsible to ensure all the medications needed by the patients are ordered appropriately and available in the facility.
• Effectively and professionally communicates with families/loved ones, as appropriate.
• Provides milieu...