Nurse Coordinator

Position Description

This position is responsible for oversight and delivery of nursing services in residential setting. The position requires working with other professionals, paraprofessionals, and support staff delivering coordinated health and wellness services to person serve. This includes the facilitation of medication management and medical services to person serve by serving as a liaison for the medical director, program manager, medical providers, pharmacies, and administration. This will also require coordinating the staff schedule to ensure coverage for person serve self-administration of medication.

Position Expectation

In keeping with the mission and core values of Tri-County Human Services, all persons served, stakeholders, and fellow employees will be treated with dignity, respect, and shown sensitivity to their cultural diversity. Referenced by policy numbers 100.000, 100.000A, and 100.004.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate staff coverage for medical station and the provision of medical services within the scope of the Program to person serve. Ensures that quality services are delivered in a professional manner.
• Provide direction to the nurses and approved unlicensed staff to conduct step by step procedures to supervise person serve self-administration of medication by following the standards established by the 65D-30 under Medication Administration Requirements.
• Is responsible for the practice safe storage, handling, and disposal of medications, as well as, ensuring safety and sanitation practices are maintained while supervising self-administration of medication.
• Maintains, reviews, and assures the documentation (MOR) and record keeping of self-administration medication is entered into the person’s health records consistent with licensing and accreditation standards. Report any in discrepancies to medical providers and program supervisor.
• Follow procedural arrangements and record keeping for person serve who require authorized medication refills as directed and/or discharge medications.
• Coordinate with providers (MAT, Medical, Psychiatric) to schedule person serve to have initial evaluation, and follow-up evaluations as requested by provider. If it is a virtual evaluation, a staff member will need to be assigned to provide supervision of evaluation.
• Directs and trains nurses to complete Nursing Assessments, COVID testing, and urine specimen collection, breathalyzer, and documentation per agency collection procedures.
• Review of medical history of all applicants who wish to enter program. This will require to work closely with Admission Department, referrals, and applicants.
• Prepares lab slips, arrange transportation to the lab, obtain the lab results for the provider to review, and once reviewed and signed, upload to person serve health record.
• Coordinates Health Education classes for the Center.
• Provides on-call availability.
• Performs other reasonable and related duties as assigned.

Minimum Training and Experience

Certified to supervise person serve self-administration of medication by following the Medication Administration Requirements listed in the 65D-30. Comprehensive understanding of and compliance with medication instructions on a prescription label, a healthcare practitioners order, and proper completion of medication observation record (MOR) form. Educated on the proper administration of oral, transdermal, ophthalmic, optic, rectal, inhaled, or topical medications. Recognize medication and medical errors. Requires knowledge of addictions treatment and/or mental health treatment programs and supportive services. Requires general understanding of the causes, nature, and treatment of substance abuse, recovery, and mental health problems.