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Our vision is a world of peaceful relationships with food, weight, and body image, where everyone with an eating disorder can experience recovery. We believe that exceptional, individualized care leads to lasting recovery from eating disorders. That’s why our teams are comprised of compassionate, dedicated professionals from a variety of backgrounds who collaborate to provide the very best evidence-based care for our clients at all levels of care.  Position Summary:  The RN provides holistic and compassionate nursing care as part of an interdisciplinary team to clients with Eating Disorders and other comorbid disorders in an inpatient or residential higher level of care (HLOC) setting or in an outpatient setting with primary focus on clients in day programming (PHP/IDP).   Schedule : Full Time Days : 40 hours/week  12 hour shifts - 7:00am -15:30pm  No weekends. Off on major recognized holidays D uties and Responsibilities:   Provides client care through assessment, monitoring, and intervention to address health concerns appropriately   Provides medication management including education, assessing adherence, administration in the inpatient and residential setting only, and monitoring for side effects in collaboration with provider   Assists and supports medical and psychiatric providers with medical care coordination   Provides medical care coordination between patient, provider, staff, family and outside care agencies as needed   Serves as a staff resource for client medical needs and information   Recognizes and appropriately responds to medical and psychiatric emergencies   Responsible for accurate and timely documentation in the client medical record   Able to follow through with directives provided by a Nurse Manager or Lead Nurse when applicable   Partners with team effectively to maximize performance through use of communication skills, knowledge of team dynamics, and adaptation to change to ensure high quality of care   Drive clients, staff, and supplies in the company vehicle in emergencies as needed (Inpatient or Residential only)   Process refills, laboratory procedures, EKGs, vitals, supply ordering and stocking, and triaging of calls   Assists staff to provide a safe environment for patient care   Adheres to policies and procedures as defined by the various programs including maintaining client confidentiality and client rights   Able to take initiative, utilize critical thinking skills, and resource to work autonomously when needed   Provides direction and support to LPNs, CNA 2, and Mas   Performs nursing assessments and tasks (e.g. Patient Assessments, Venipuncture/Phlebotomy, EKG placement and capture, Nasogastric Tube Feeds, implementation of provider orders)   Partners with medical and psychiatric providers to ensure client safety during treatment at Accanto facilities, including appropriate management of medication regimen   Partners with nutrition and medical to monitor meal compliance, possible impacts on clients’ health, and actions needed   Operates as the Person in Charge during after hours and owns escalation to on-call leadership / providers during after hour periods   Partners with the treatment team to create the appropriate treatment plan for each client   Partners with BHTs to help with client de-escalations   Collaborates with site staff on incident reports   Responds to medical concerns in the milieu   Performs safety assessments after hours   Initiate emergency response/protocols after business hours   Initiate nursing interventions to protect client safety   Make appr