Registered Nurse (RN) 7p-7a PRN

Job Description: The role involves providing professional level of nursing care to patients under minimum supervision and consultation. This position directs and guides activities on the unit and assignments of ancillary personnel assigned to unit and shift. The duties include calling the appropriate team member with non-life threatening medical and medication issues, identifying client care requirements, establishing a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological and spiritual support to clients and families, promoting client's independence by establishing client care goals, teaching client to understand condition, medications and self-care requirements, assuring quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, resolving client problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies, maintaining safe and clean working environment, protecting clients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, documenting patient care services, maintaining continuity among teams, maintaining nursing supplies inventory, maintaining professional and technical knowledge, maintaining a cooperative relationship among health care team, following the incident reporting policy and procedure, demonstrating skills of delegation, organization and coordination of assigned services, functioning as a role model for nursing staff, role modeling problem solving as the effective means of resolving conflict, participating in input for performance evaluations, disciplinary actions and follow-up to other types of issues, developing and maintaining effective working relationships with staff, management, and other members of the health care team, providing pertinent communication to the Director of Nursing regarding levels of staff performance, exercising good judgment and discretion in deviating from policy in circumstances where strict adherence would pose a risk to the patient, visitor, staff or facility, collaborating with the Director of Nursing to maintain adequate levels of staff to deliver safe, effective and appropriate care and also remains within the budgetary guidelines, providing clinical direction to staff and evaluates the level of care provided by the nursing staff on assigned shifts Holds staff accountable for functioning in a reduced risk manner, as the coordinator of care, the registered nurse is responsible for the observation and direction of patient lifts and mobilization and participates as needed in patient handling, providing coordination for the unit and direction for the staff. Responsible for scheduling, patient flow, unit operations, resource allocation and supply management, participating in PI data collection, data analysis, reports and staff education, assisting in providing essential training to the new staff, coordinating with the doctors and other nurses on the plan of care to provide the individual treatment needed, and other duties, as needed.

Qualifications: The qualifications for this position include an Associate Degree in Nursing (ASN) OR Bachelors Degree in Nursing (ASN) required, current RN License in in State of operations required, CPR and First Aid Certified, knowledge of addiction and drug treatment preferred, functions with an awareness of patient safety issues and applies basic principles of safety as identified within the facility, ability to read and interpret written information; write clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar. Ability to speak clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; listens and gets clarification; responds well to questions; demonstrates group presentation skills; and participates in meetings, working knowledge of Google Products, GMail, Google Sheets, Google Docs, etc.

Physical Requirements: AAC is committed to principles of equal opportunities for all employees. The Company will provide reasonable accommodations that are necessary to comply with State and Federal disability discrimination laws. Prolonged sitting at a desk and ability to lift 15 pounds at a time are required.