PT Nurse

Position Summary:

Functions as primary intensive outpatient counselor for women with substance abuse or co-occurring disorders.

Essential Job Functions:

• Maintains and demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of the concepts of a patient's care and supervision.
• Responsible for supervising each medical and general health history of all clients.
• Ensure that each client receives the best possible care.
• Oversees the administration of medications according to policies and procedures, controlling schedules and doses and ensuring that they are administered to clients when necessary.
• Verify, keep up to date and sign the medication record of the clients.
• Help perform regular exams and routine checkups on clients.
• Observe, understand, and manage health problems peculiar to the clients served.
• Assist the contracted physician, with basic medical examinations and the administration of prescribed treatments.
• Help maintain a record for your clients to have accurate records of the client's medical history, treatment plan, and progress.Participates in the creation and implementation of protocols for the treatment of the client and documents the medical record according to the treatment plan.
• Help perform prescribed tests on your clients, such as vital signs, blood pressure, temperature, breathing, pulse, and blood sugar checks.
• Responsible for ensuring that clients receive all appropriate services
• Provide help so that clients feel that their physical, social and affective needs are resolved.
• You must be an understanding, loving person with positive energy.
• Completes required documentation, including progress notes, behavioral observations, incident reports, and other appropriate documentation and within set deadlines.
• Reports and/or documents clients' observations and contributes to treatment decisions.
• Other assigned tasks focused on the client.

Essential Qualifications:

Certifications/Licenses:

• Current professional Nurse license issued by the Nursing Examining Board of Puerto Rico

Education:

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing
• Experience in substance abuse field is preferred.

Experience and Competencies:

• Experience in substance abuse field is preferred.

Working Conditions:

• Work is primarily performed in an office or residential treatment setting; and
• Some outdoor activities may be required.

Essential Physical and Mental Demands of the Job

• The employee must be able to perform the following essential duties and activities with or without accommodation:

• Physical Demands:

  Requires mobility and physical activity. Having an adequate range of body motion and mobility, to work in the office environment including standing and walking (even and uneven surfaces) to interact with co-workers in the office environment, sitting for extended periods of time, bending, twisting, reaching, balancing, occasional lifting and carrying of up to 30 pounds. Constant use of a computer and telephone system is required, which includes coordination of eye and hand, and fine manipulation by the hands (typing, writing, and working with files). Requires the ability to operate a motor vehicle.

• Requires talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Talking is required to impart oral information to employees, clients, and the public and in those activities in which the employee is required to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Requires hearing:  Hearing is required to receive and communicate detailed information through oral communication.
• Requires seeing: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less as well as vision adequate for driving a motor vehicle. This factor is required to complete paperwork for many of the employee’s essential job functions and when driving a motor vehicle.
• The normal work routine may involve exposure to human blood, body fluids or tissues. Job duties may include performing or assisting in emergency medical care or first aid.

• Mental Demands:

• Requires the ability to collect and analyze complex numerical and written data and verbal information to reach logical conclusions.
• Requires the ability to work and cooperate with clients, co-workers, managers, the public and employees at all levels to exchange ideas, information, instructions, and opinions.
• Requires the ability to work under stress and in emotionally charged settings.
• The ability to defend oneself and clients in mentally/verbally abusive situations using approved mental/verbal de-escalation techniques.