Registered Nurse (Telehealth/SUD)

About the role

• This position is 100% remote but you must reside in one of the following states: AL, AK, AZ, CO, FL, GA, ID, IN, KS, MD, MI, NH, NM, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, WA, WY
• The Registered Nurse works directly with patients to deliver medication-assisted recovery for substance use disorder (SUD) and empowers patients in their recovery journeys in coordination with the Care Team (primarily Nurse Practitioners, Medical Assistants and Peer Recovery Specialists)
• Our team delivers compassionate and empathetic telephonic, text-based, and video-based (telehealth) patient engagement and monitoring
• Boulder Care recognizes the value that lived experience can provide to our organization, community, and patients. Applicants with lived experience and/or training as a peer recovery specialist are encouraged to apply

Success in this role

Essential Functions - Patient Care (50%)

• Provide compassionate, empathetic telephonic, text based and video-based (Telehealth) patient engagement and monitoring, assisted by clinical decision support tools
• Provide support to patients within the Boulder application to ensure successful engagement and initiation of treatment
• Educate patients about addiction, medications, and available support services; answer questions regarding treatment and program protocols, and provide guidance to patients and providers within scope of practice
• Provide opioid overdose prevention, education, and reversal, safer consumption education, and safer sex education and testing
• Access Prescription Drug Monitoring Program information, facilitate patient adherence monitoring protocols, for each assigned patient
• Assess progress, patient functioning, and stage in recovery; in collaboration with other care team members and the patient, develop and update treatment care plans for each individual
• Assess and advocate for acute withdrawal management
• Assess for pain and collaborate findings with Clinician
• Provide Buprenorphine initiation education and follow up
• Maintain effective, proactive, and superior follow-up communication with patients, providers and care team
• Maintain an accurate and updated medical record of individual patient progress during all clinical interactions
• Identify and provide crisis intervention, within scope of practice
• If applicable: facilitate placement for adjunctive or higher level of care; maintain contact with these placements to provide continuity of care and to streamline transitions of care
• Obtain and review drug testing results and recommend further testing as appropriate, guided by clinical decision support tools

Essential Functions - Care Coordination (30%)

• Coordinate with multidisciplinary care teams via tele