Registered Nurse (RN) (FT) - ACT Program - Gwinnett/Rockdale/Newton

View Point Health Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN) Job Code: HCP071/Registered Nurse 2 or T7001 Professional Health Care Worker Shift: Full-Time (40 hours per week on average) Job Hours: Times May Vary Base Location: Gwinnett/Rockdale/Newton/Dekalb/Fulton (Based on Area of Assignment) Division/Department/Program: Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Program View Point Health is a community behavioral health center utilizing a team of psychiatrists, nurses, licensed counselors and social workers, as well as other professionals to provide services to individuals who need treatment and support to cope with mental illness, substance abuse, and intellectual and developmental disabilities.

View Point Health serves uninsured, underinsured, low-income Medicaid, Medicare, war veterans and some private insurance across multiple locations with a full continuum of behavioral health services and support.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) uses a multidisciplinary team approach to provide intensive mental health treatment services to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness in their homes and other community settings-24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

ACT is often referred to as a hospital without walls and its goal is to keep individuals out of state hospitals, jails, emergency rooms and other institutions.

ACT clients must meet a strict criterion (i.e., diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness, unable to maintain activities of daily living, and be unsuccessful in other forms of treatment).

ACT clients often have no resources and no family support and require an intensive and expeditious form of treatment.

The Behavioral Health Nurse, ACT, is a Registered Nurse (RN) who provides nursing assessments and medication management for adults with behavioral health or substance abuse disorders.

Services are designed to treat the acutely distressed consumers in the community with no delay, preventing hospitalization, incarceration, or other placements.

Duties & Responsibilities: Provides intensive nursing services for consumers with severe and persistent behavioral health disorders.

Typically, the goal is prevention of hospitalization or other out-of-home placements.Provides services primarily in community settings: home, school, and other service settings.Conducts face-to-face comprehensive nursing/health assessments to identify problems and service needs.Contributes to individual service plans that meet Medicaid, insurer, CARF and other required standards for diagnoses, content, justifications for treatment, evidence of consumer input, and treatment time frames.Evaluates client care and progress to ensure immediate attention to changing medical treatment needs.Work in conjunction with the Nurse Practitioner, administers any initial and ongoing medications prescribed.Provides the client and family members as needed, information about management of medication, complications, and side effects.Follows all Medicaid, state, in...