Travel Nurse RN in Lewiston, ME

Job Description

Job Title: Alcohol and Addiction RN
Shift: Days 7a-7p
Location: Lewiston, ME 04240
Pay Rate: $2088 to $2403
Start Date: 06/09/2025

Job Type: Contract (13 Weeks)

Company Overview: At MedCadre, we connect exceptional healthcare professionals with world-class career
opportunities while upholding the highest standards of ethics, fairness, and integrity. As a Joint Commission–
accredited leader in healthcare staffing, we ensure trust and peace of mind for both our clinicians and partner facilities.

Position Summary:

• The Registered Nurse on the Adult Chemical Dependency unit is an essential member of our patient care team who is responsible for the delivery of direct and indirect patient care through the nursing process in all assigned areas. They will be responsible for consistently and independently conducts a thorough admission interview and systematic physical assessment, assessing the needs for services of other health care professionals to facilitate the delivery of patient care, and developing, implementing and revising appropriate patient care plans. They will carefully and thoroughly document patient conditions, care given and responses to care given and performs patient education and facilitates groups.
• The Adult Chemical Dependency Unit provides care to patients ages 15 and older. The most frequent diagnoses’ are physiological dependency to alcohol, opiates, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and/or other drugs. Many patients will also have other associated psychiatric diagnoses’ such as depression, psychosis, and bipolar disorder. The Adult Chemical Dependency Unit operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Adult Chemical Dependency Unit is located on the D4 wing of St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identifies and addresses client needs by conducting nursing assessments, developing nursing interventions and providing nursing care by following professional standards and in accordance with program policies and procedures.
• Assesses, evaluates and responds to changes in client conditions, documenting and reporting such changes to appropriate person to assure prompt response to client needs.
• Monitors and provides emergency medical care and daily medical treatments to medically compromised clients.
• Provides medical monitoring of detoxification and utilizes protocols as ordered by physician.
• Demonstrates knowledge of techniques related to the use of restraint and seclusion; including restraint and seclusion reduction principles comprising skills related to prevention, de-escalation, and debriefing.
• Conducts and/or participates in clients’ admissions, discharges, transfers, and orientation to the unit as necessary and in accordance with program protocols.
• Communicates with physicians, transcribes orders, maintain controlled medication counts and document to maintain accurate client records.
• Assures controlled substance count and syringe count as required by standards and ensures accurate records are kept in accordance with identified protocols.
• Assists in monitoring inventory, ordering of medications, and equipment needed for daily operation of the unit in collaboration with the pharmacy.
• Functions as the medication nurse as assigned.