Nurse / Case Manager

Somerville, MA

PACT Nurse Responsibilities: • Provide case management, including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team (ITT) • Responsible for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising treatment goals and plans in conjunction with the ITT • Provide individual supportive therapy and symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the Individual Action Plan (IAP) as persons served needs change, educating and supporting persons served families, and advocating for persons served rights and preferences. • Conduct a comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history (e.g., onset, course and effect of illness, past treatment and responses, and risk behaviors), mental status, and diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning activities of daily living (e.g., self-care, living situation, nutrition, money management); and family structure and relationships. • Consult with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process. • Provide on-call crisis intervention covering nighttime and weekend hours. • Participate in providing medication administration and medical services under the supervision of the lead nurse. • Develop, revise, maintain, and supervise team psychopharmacologic and medical treatment and medication policies and procedures; including transcribing, administering, evaluating, and recording psychotropic medications prescribed by the team psychiatrist; evaluate and chart psychotropic medication effectiveness, complications, and side effects; and arrange for required lab work according to protocol. • Provide ongoing assessment of persons served mental illness symptoms and persons served response to treatment. Make appropriate changes in the IAP to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior which put persons served at risk. • Provide symptom education to enable persons served to identify their mental illness symptoms. • Provide direct clinical services, including individual support therapy and psychotherapy, to persons served on an individual, group, and family basis in the office and in community settings to teach behavioral symptom-management techniques to alleviate and manage symptoms not reduced with medication and to promote personal growth and development by assisting person served to cope with internal /external stresses. • Provide individual and group treatment in the office and in community settings in a stagebased treatment model that is non-confrontational, considers interactions of mental illness and substance abuse, and has persons served-determined goals. • Coordinate with outside inpatient services to detoxify persons served and establish linkage to outpatient treatment, self-help programs, outpatient services, and residential facilities. • Provide individual vocational-supportive counseling to enable persons served to identify vocational strengths and problems, establish vocational or career goals and plans to reach them, and recognize and target symptoms of mental illness that interfere with work. • Plan and provide work-related supportive services, such as assistance with grooming and personal hygiene, securing of appropriate clothing, wake-up calls, and transportation. • Teach job-seeking skills. • Assist persons served to find and maintain a safe and affordable place to live. • Provide nutrition education and assistance with meal planning, grocery shopping, and food preparation. • Assist and support persons served to perform household activities, including house cleaning and laundry. • Ensure that persons served have adequate financial support. • Teach money-management skills. • Help persons served to access reliable transportation. • Assist and support persons served to have and effectively use a personal primary care physician, dentist, and other medical specialists as required. Typical Requirements: • Two years experience in a mental health setting. • RN in state of service required. • A high school diploma or equivalent is required; Bachelor’s degree preferred. In some cases, experience may be substituted for education.

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Healthcare

Posted on Feb 22, 2023