Psychiatric Field Nurse (RN)
Up to $52.00 • hourly
TAG MedStaffing
Job Description
Join our client as a Psychiatric Field Nurse (RN) in Philadelphia, PA, providing community-based care to individuals with severe mental illness. This field-based role, requiring travel across Philadelphia County, allows you to make a direct impact by coordinating behavioral and physical health services for homeless individuals.
Compensation: $52/hour
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Full-time)
Setting: Fieldwork across Philadelphia County
Responsibilities as the Psychiatric Field Nurse (RN):
- Care Coordination: Oversee the behavioral and physical health needs of service participants, ensuring that care aligns with physician orders and psychiatric nursing practices.
- Medication Monitoring: Manage participants' medications, providing psychiatric nursing services and ensuring compliance with treatment plans.
- Community-Based Care: Conduct health and biopsychosocial assessments in the field, with approximately 75% of work in community settings.
- Collaborative Care: Work as part of a multidisciplinary Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team to help participants reach their maximum level of functioning in the community.
- Consultation: Collaborate with team members on participant care plans, coordinating routine medical, vision, lab, and dental appointments.
- Documentation: Maintain accurate and timely records of medical histories, treatments, and assessments, ensuring compliance with agency and state requirements.
- Licensure: Board Certified Registered Nurse (RN), licensed in Pennsylvania.
- Experience: Experience providing psychiatric services in community mental health settings.
- Knowledge: Expertise in psychiatric care and the ACT model, with strong clinical knowledge.
- Skills: Excellent organizational, communication, and analytical abilities.
- Other: Valid driver’s license with a clean driving record required.
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