Registered Nurse at Center For Mental Health – Helena, Montana

Full Time/ Exempt/Helena

Registered Nurse - Crisis

Position Overview: The Crisis Registered Nurse delivers medical and behavioral health support to individuals experiencing crisis. Responsibilities include nursing assessment, medication support, physical health monitoring, withdrawal identification, and collaboration with prescribers. The Crisis Nurse utilizes trauma-informed care and non-coercive approaches and can recognize medical instability requiring hospital transfer.

Job Duties:

• Conducts physical and behavioral health screening upon intake.

• Monitors medical stability and respond to emergent medical needs.

• Supports medication reconciliation, education, and administration per provider orders.

• Documents and communications of medical risk factors influencing crisis care decisions.

• Identifies and manages intoxication, withdrawal risk, or medication side effects.

• Conducts comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history.

• Consults with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process.

• Provides on-call crisis intervention during regular hours and serves as a backup to evening, weekend, and holidays.

• Documents client progress to maintain a permanent record of client activity according to established methods and procedures.

• Participates in daily staff facility meetings as needed.

• Takes the lead role or participates in providing medication administration and medical services on crisis facility site.

• Under the direction of the medication management provider develops, revises, maintains, and supervises crisis team psychopharmacologic and medical treatment and medication policies and procedures, evaluates and charts psychotropic medication effectiveness, complications, and side effects’ and arranges for required lab work according to protocol.

• Under the direction of the APRN manages pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.

• In collaboration with the APRN, coordinates, schedules, and administers medical assessments of client physical health and treatment.

• Participates in treatment, rehabilitation, and support services.

• Provides ongoing assessment of clients’ mental illness symptoms and clients’ response to treatment while they are admitted to the facility.

• Provides symptom education to enable clients to identify their mental illness symptoms.

• Maintains RN license and all continuing education requirements.

• May conduct speaking presentations at community groups.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Licensed Registered Nurse with one year of work experience in an inpatient or outpatient psychiatric setting is required.

• Must have a strong commitment to the right and ability of each person with a severe and persistent mental illness to live in normal community residences’ work in market jobs’ and have access to helpful, adequate, competent, and continuous supports and services.

• Must possess the skills and competence to establish supportive trusting relationships with people with severe and persistent mental illnesses and respect for client rights and personal preferences in treatment.

• Crisis experience preferred.

Salary: $87,360.00 Annual + DOE

Shift: Monday-Friday day shift with supporting other nursing areas, and may fill in.

Benefits:

401K Matching Contributions

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Flexible Work Schedule

Paid Holidays

Paid Birthday

Pet Insurance

About Us:

Since 1976, we have been dedicated to 13 counties in Montana and seek to serve a variety of both individuals and groups in all settings. We define resilience as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress — such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace, school place and financial stressors — alongside those of chronic, severe disabling behavioral health conditions. with an integrated team of specialists and a personal approach to wellness. Today, we are focused on becoming Montana's healthcare provider of choice.

We are committed to recruiting qualified employees, continually striving for advancement, and above all, working as a team to meet the health needs of clients living in our 13 counties. Our vision is to be the healthcare provider of choice for clients and employer of choice for employees and providers. We will achieve this vision by committing to a culture of integrity, safety, evidence based exceptional care, compassionate customer service, and great work environment.

Mission: Many Rivers Whole Health partners with people and communities to serve the whole person – body, mind, and spirit – by providing expertise in wellness, mental health, and substance use disorders, addressing prevention and treatment with a recovery-based approach.

Vision: To be a community based, highly respected organization known for excellence in mental health and addiction recovery services; offering compassionate, client-focused, professional support.

Beliefs/Values: Ambassador of Many Rivers, Own it, Individuals Matter, Create Joy, Embrace Change, Show Up. Step In.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Many Rivers Whole Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE/AA/M-F/Vet/Disability). We encourage all qualified individuals to apply for employment. We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on protected veteran status, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, or any other basis protected by applicable law.