The Bridge, an innovative and well-respected mental health agency serving adults with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-morbid medical conditions is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse. The LPN is a shared position between 2 Bronx-based ACT Team and is an integral part of both programs.
The LPN conducts counseling, and medication management to promote recovery, wellness, and optimal health. The LPN provides services, within the framework of core operating principles, professional nursing ethics, and regulatory guidelines. Our clients have histories of trauma, homelessness, incarceration, long term hospitalizations and are primarily people of color who are victims of systemic racism. For the ACT team, 80% of the work is provided in the community.
Essential Position Functions:
- Participate in defining, implementing, and maintaining standards of nursing practice within the scope of practice of an LPN.
- Participate in determining conditions, resources, and policies essential to the delivery of nursing care services.
- Assesses needs for housing, mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment, medical care, income support, and other services.
- Serve as advocate and liaison for recipients in securing medical care, and other community supports that promote integrated physical and mental health wellness.
- In collaboration with the RN on the ACT team, maintain medication inventory and medication management.
- Assist in coordinating medical care in coordination with psychiatric provider.
- Ensure all consumers have primary care provider and receive annual physical and dental examinations.
- Assist in maintaining schedule for recipient prescriptions.
- Administer IM’s and vaccines, plants and reads PPD’s, and performs phlebotomy as per orders.
- Transcribe orders and updates Medication Administration Records.
- Monitor vital signs and side effects of medications and reports findings to Team.
- Provide 80 percent of treatment contacts in the community.
- Provide culturally competent services in accordance with The Bridge policies and practices.
- Complete progress notes, and maintain nursing and health-related data entry into EHR.
- Any other duties as required by the Director and Administrators.
