Boston Medical Center (BMC)

Manager

• Provides skilled nursing services to patients struggling with substance use disorders.
• Ongoing assessment, intakes, evaluations, triage, teaching, inductions, stabilizations, and monitoring of patients in Office-Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) model.
• Provide psychiatric care of patients within the Addiction Psychiatry Treatment Program (APTP).
• Collaborates with team members, clinic settings at BMC and outside referral sites.
• Works with providers from addiction and community health settings in assisting patients and supporting their referral needs.
• Review intake assessment with nursing team and provider and establish appropriate plan of care for patient.
• Revise patient plan of care with the addiction treatment team as needed to address patient needs and issues.
• Collaboration, communication, and meetings with addiction treatment team as needed and required.
• Review consents and treatment contracts with patients and significant others.
• Ongoing management of patients receiving medications for addiction (opioids, alcohol, and stimulant use disorders).
• Education and assessment of patients looking to access opioid treatment programs.
• Assessment of signs and symptoms of opioid withdrawal using the COW (Clinical Opioid Withdrawal) scale.
• Follow State and Federal guidelines in providing care to opioid dependent patients.
• Ongoing psychiatric care of patients referred to the Addiction Psychiatry Treatment Program.
• Provides follow up care in person and via telephone when needed.
• Must adhere to all of BMC’s RESPECT behavioral standards.

Addiction Nurse Care Manager – Addiction Psychiatry Treatment Program

• The Nurse Manager is a registered nurse who functions as a patient care provider, supervisor and clinical resource for staff.
• She/he implements management and clinical activities.
• Coordinates clinical activities to ensure that the nursing process is operationalized utilizing Standards of Care/Standards of Practice.
• Primary responsibilities include ensuring the provision of patient care consistent with department/hospital and regulatory standards.

Addiction Nurse Care Manager – Addiction Psychiatry Treatment Program

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