Are you a great mental health nurse with strong relationship building and communication skills? Chesapeake Integrated Behavioral Healthcare is seeking a Psychiatric Registered Nurse II for our Outpatient Services Clinic. As the City That Cares, we value a healthy work-life balance! The Psychiatric Registered Nurse II position collaboratively supervises the Psych Services Unit with no evening, weekend, holiday, on-call or after hour responsibilities...and more than 12 paid holidays a year! Come join our team in the #1 most trusted profession-Nursing!

Typical Tasks Include but are not limited to:

• Perform nursing assessments of adults, as well as children, with mental health, substance use or co-occurring disorder who are receiving medication management services in an outpatient setting
• Administration of injectable medications, completion of primary care screenings, (height, weight and BMI) and follow up if recommended, assess and recording vital signs.
• Provide medication education, crisis intervention and resource information.
• Performs Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) assessments such as Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS)
• Coordinate care with both internal (therapists, Case Managers) and external providers, which may include but not limited to coordination of care with primary care providers (PCP)
• Complete urine drug screens (UDS), administer breathalyzer testing, as well as blood glucose monitoring as ordered by providers.
• Assists Program Supervisor in the supervision of nursing staff including selecting or recommending selection, training, assignment, and evaluation of work, counseling, disciplining, and terminating or recommending termination.
• Completes all necessary paperwork in accordance with agency, state and federal regulations
• Assists Nursing Supervisor with planning, coordinating, directing and supervising processes within the unit.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

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