Registered Nurse

What You Will Do

As a Ranch Nurse, you will draw on your skills to connect with, support, and educate children and adolescents, ages 10-18, and serve as a critical team member in our adolescent psychiatric residential facility. You will collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to assess patient progress and modify treatment programs accordingly.

Purpose

• Provide care to youth and their families in a respectful, caring, empowering, holistic, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive manner.
• Demonstrate a commitment to agency mission, vision, and shared values.
• Display respect for all voices, all cultures and all perspectives.
• Help establish team collaborative decisions to promote youth independence and success.
• Promote an environment that supports accomplishments and self-esteem, as well as empowerment and accountability.
• Work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team to provide a person-centered plan of care and sense of well-being, while advocating for the youth and family's best interests.

Caring

• Initiate nursing presence and role-modeling by attending youth-focused meetings, being dependable, and following through with tasks.
• Ensure client's physical/mental health needs are met by ensuring health assessments, routine health care, nursing procedures, and face-to-face evaluations are completed within accredited time frames, and appropriate referrals are made when needed.
• Demonstrate the ability to assist providers while seeing clients. Observe and carry out orders as indicated and perform appropriate interventions as ordered.
• Create caring relationships with our youth by attending activities, assisting with outside appointments, and implementing nursing groups to provide education.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, with the ability to return to campus within one hour to provide guidance and complete appropriate assessment and paperwork.
• Participate in medical/psychiatric emergencies and assess, treat, and triage in a timely and appropriate manner.

Learning

• Assist youth by providing knowledge of healthcare management to ensure youth and families experience positive outcomes and long-term success.
• Establish and role-model positive relationships through greeting youth and staff and engaging in learning moments collaboratively.
• Provide education to clients or staff as needed concerning issues of general health, medications, growth and development, hygiene, infection, and nutrition.
• Actively seek opportunities to share knowledge and expertise with team members, focusing on formal learning opportunities as well as informal coaching moments.

Qualifications

• A current and valid North Dakota Registered Nurse license.
• One year of experience in a mental or behavioral healthcare setting preferred, but not required.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and multitask.
• History of reliability, patience, and professionalism.