Lead Nurse

Insight seeks a compassionate Lead Nurse for our Outpatient Opioid Treatment Program located in Winston Salem, NC.

The Lead Nurse is responsible for assisting in all areas of patient care, including physicals, and necessary tests in compliance with state and federal laws, and supervising the nursing staff, including medical technicians and assistants.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following and other duties that are assigned:

Provide for and direct the determination, maintenance, and interpretation of standards of nursing practice, and ancillary patient care practices to ensure licensed status is maintained and established procedures are followed
Provide for and direct the development, implementation, and evaluation of the program for patients to ensure current, state-of-the-art quality care is provided
Provide for and direct the determination of conditions, resources, and policies essential to the delivery of patient care services
Provide for and direct the immediate supervision of all administrative personnel in these areas
Direct all personnel in these areas to ensure appropriate levels of staff training, recruiting, corrective action, staff development
Participate in interdisciplinary programs and overall planning
Provide for and direct the on-going review of respective services regarding staffing, philosophy, goals, objectives, policies and procedures
Participate in, monitor, and evaluate quality assurance activities
Provide for and direct analysis of trends pertinent to the delivery of care services
Interpret and communicate policies and procedures in matters related to nursing, and ancillary services to advise and coordinate programs with medical staff and department heads
Review protocols, policies, procedures, and standards of practice to ensure compliance with Federal, SOTA, NCDHHS and, CARF requirements
Schedule nursing/pharmacy staff
Oversee and maintain medication inventory
Monitor dosing area for accuracy and efficiency
Review all inventory binders to ensure proper documentation of inventory
Maintain 222 binder to ensure ongoing compliance
Ensure nursing staff license is current
Oversee inventory reconciliations as needed

The most qualified candidates will possess the following:

Registered Nurse (RN) registered in the state of North Carolina
and graduated from an accredited school of nursing
At least 5 years of experience as an RN
Constant mental alertness, attention to detail, and high degree of accuracy required in completing all assignments
Experience in the field of addictions is preferred but not necessary
Able to follow oral and written instructions and follow –through on all assignments