Registered Nurse (RN) Addiction Treatment Center (Claremont)

Addiction Treatment Center - Claremont NH

Our Addiction Treatment Program (ATP) has an experienced team of counselors and psychiatrists who offer evaluation treatment and referral services to individuals 18 years and older who struggle with substance use. The Registered Nurse (RN) in this department works closely with providers social workers counselors research assistants and administration to ensure a comprehensive approach to patient care.

Some responsibilities of the RN in this role include but are not limited to:

• Patient assessment and triage
• Medication administration: Vivitrol Sublocade Brixadi Depo-Provera
• Controlled medication management
• Patient education: participating in group therapies
• Prior authorizations

This position is 40 hours per week Monday through Friday (8am-5pm). No nights weekends or holidays!

These are just a few highlights of being a nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics in New Hampshire.

• We have loan repayment up to $20000.
• We offer Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to take on the burden of finding a home.
• We offer generous tuition reimbursement.
• We have a very popular earned time plan.
• We have extensive CEU/Training programs.
• Our 8000 ft Patient Safety and Training Simulation Center is state-of-the-art.
• Our nurses serve as central figures in the success of our system through our shared governance nursing model.
• We offer a rigorous research-focused environment.
• Dartmouth Hitchcocks Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing. education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Why are we so unique We are a nationally recognized Academic Medical Center set right in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We recognize that quality of life means different things to different people but we are very confident you will love it here as we have beautiful rural and suburban housing options world-class primary secondary and graduate schools hundreds of lakes thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This all means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends family pets or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire is a line on the ski mountain at the chair lift.

Read more about Dartmouth Health and why YOU should work here.

The Dartmouth Health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax this beautiful area combines history industry and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon NH the system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center Dartmouth Health Childrens; member hospitals and 30 Dartmouth Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. With destinations like Boston New York the seacoast and ski country within driving distance the opportunities - both career and personal - truly make New Hampshire the ideal place to work and play.

Applicants are encouraged to visit our nursing career site to learn more and apply:

Please visit: Health is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status veteran status gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by law.

The Clinical Nurse is an engaged and credentialed member of the Professional Nursing Organization and is responsible for autonomous practice directed by the professional tenets of practitioner leader/decision maker scientist and transferor. The Clinical Nurse is responsible for utilizing the nursing process to provide evidence-based care and to continuously monitor and evaluate practice to ensure safe passage of patients that is in the best interest of populations served.

Practitioner

• Utilizes the nursing process to assess diagnose identify outcomes plan implement and evaluate an individualized plan of care.
• Utilizes critical thinking and the nursing process to anticipate and recognize changes in patient status taking action to modify the plan of care or to elevate to the care team as necessary.
• Practices in accordance with the ANA Code of Ethics to advocate for patients uphold their autonomy in decision-making ensure informed consent and assist patients in families in expressing self-determination.
• Actively seeks feedback and acts to improve performance.
• Engages in the governance of practice.

Leader/Decision Maker

• Manages interpersonal relationships for self and with others. Mentors colleagues for the advancement of nursing practice and the profession.
• Assumes authority and accountability for the nursing care of patients while appropriately delegating elements of care to others members of the care delivery team in accordance with laws regulations and policies and procedures.
• Prioritizes and organizes time to optimize patient outcomes.

Scientist

• Actively seeks out the most current evidence and standards and applies and translates to daily practice.
• Role models a culture of inquiry developing new knowledge by contributing to research quality improvement and evidence-based practice at the local level.

Transferor

• Communicates effectively in a variety of formats in all areas of practice.
• Actively partners with others to effect change that produces positive outcomes through the exchange of knowledge.
• Precepts the student nurse nurse extern nurse resident experienced clinical nurse and other members of the healthcare team.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) preferred.

• Licensed RN with NH eligibility
• BLS