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Department:Behavioral Health Outpatient Services & In-House Clinic Integration

About Hall Mercer

At Hall Mercer, we provide integrated community mental health services, combining psychiatric care, nursing, therapists, and clinic-based supports to empower individuals living with serious mental illness. We are committed to person- and family-centered care, continuous quality improvement, and maintaining a culture of safety, collaboration, and professional development.

Position Summary

The Clinical Nurse II will serve as a key member of our multidisciplinary outpatient psychiatric team, specializing in the administration of long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotic therapies. In addition to LAI management, this role will actively participate in multiple on‐site in-house clinics (e.g., medication management, health monitoring, wellness clinics) across the center. The nurse will practice as a full partner on the healthcare team and demonstrate safe, evidence-based nursing practice consistent with organizational professional practice models.

The Clinical Nurse II independently provides patient care via the nursing process, accepts accountability for assigned patients, and collaborates with providers, therapists, pharmacists, and support staff to optimize outcomes for our Behavioral Health population.

Key Responsibilities

+ Administer and monitor long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotic medications: prepare, educate patients, screen for contraindications, observe for adverse effects, document and report outcomes.

+ Coordinate with psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and case managers to support LAI protocols (e.g., scheduling follow-up doses, tracking adherence, liaising with pharmacies).

+ Serve as a liaison for multiple in-house clinics: support medication follow-up visits, physical health monitoring (vital signs, labs, metabolic screening), wellness and smoking cessation clinics, and behavioral health/physical health integration efforts.

+ Provide comprehensive nursing assessments (physical, psychosocial, educational needs) for psychiatric outpatients, incorporating age-appropriate, culturally sensitive, and educational components.

+ Apply evidence-based practice, quality improvement methods, and data monitoring to optimize nursing processes, safety, and patient outcomes

+ Engage in person- and family-centered care: respect patient preferences, partner with patients and families in care planning, provide education and support for self-management.

+ Serve as a resource and mentor for colleagues, contribute to staff education and unit initiatives, and effectively participate in team-based collaboration and shared governance.

+ Ensure compliance with all regulatory, accreditation, and agency policies (e.g., state RN licensure, BLS certification, medication handling standards).

+ Utilize electronic health records, informatics tools, and technologies to document care, communicate across teams, support clinical decision-making, and mitigate errors (Technology/ Informatics domain).

+ Participate in nursing professional development, scholarship, research, or performance improvement projects as applicable.

+ Serve as a Pharmacy Liaison various pharmacies, most commonly, Pennsylvania Hospital

Qualifications

+ Registered Nurse (RN) licensed in Pennsylvania (required).

+ Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited school of nursing

+ Minimum of 15 months of relevant professional nursing experience (in psychiatry or outpatient mental health preferred).

+ Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification as per American Heart Association (required).

+ Demonstrated experience in outpatient psychiatric nursing, LAI administration, and patient education/monitoring preferred.

+ Strong clinical judgment, organizational and communication skills, ability to work in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary team environment.

+ Commitment to person- and family-centered care, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and professional growth.

Why Hall Mercer?

+ Opportunity to work in a dynamic community mental health setting that emphasizes integration of psychiatric, nursing, and wellness services.

+ Collaborative interdisciplinary team environment

+ Professional development support, including ongoing training in psychiatric care, LAI management, clinic operations.

+ Commitment to work/life balance, staff wellbeing, and innovation in community mental health.

Summary:

+ The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague is an RN that practices as a full partner on the health care team and consistently demonstrates safe practice within the organizational professional practice model. The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague possesses the knowledge, skills and the attitude to effectively meet standards for competent professional nursing practice as specified in the Clinical Nurse 2 position description addendum. The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague exhibits UPHS organizational behavioral competencies which reflect its mission and are embedded in the professional practice competency domains. The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague independently provides patient care through the application of the nursing process and accepts accountability for the nursing care of assigned patients. Assigned patients may range in age from infancy to the elderly. The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague demonstrates within the competency domains of Continuous Quality Improvement, Evidence Based Practice and Research, Leadership, Person and Family Centered Care, Professionalism, Safety, Technology/Informatics, and Teamwork (Definitions listed below). The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague works closely with the interprofessional health care team to facilitate the coordination of care across the continuum. The nurse focuses on expanding the knowledge and skills necessary to provide individualized care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, safety, and age appropriate considerations of assigned patients. The Clinical Nurse 2 Colleague seeks feedback in assuming leadership roles and provides feedback for improved clinical practice. The nurse demonstrates how nursing practice impacts the organizational vision, mission, and goals and the care delivery system. The nurse complies with all regulations and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies.

Responsibilities:

+ Professional Practice Competency Domains DefinitionsContinuous Quality Improvement (CQI): The nurse utilizes data and QI methods to identify potential and actual problems and opportunities to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.Evidence Based Practice and Research: The nurse evaluates and integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient and family preferences and values for the delivery of optimal health care and system effectiveness.Leadership: The nurse effectively collaborates and applies innovative, systems thinking to engage in systematic, evidence-based problem solving and decision making to promote effective changes within a complex care delivery system supporting the vision of Penn Medicine.Person and Family Centered Care: The nurse recognizes the patient (or the patient’s designee) as the source of control and a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.Professionalism: The nurse demonstrates a commitment to the nursing profession through lifelong learning, adherence to ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses, participation in a professional organization and advancing community outreach.Safety: The nurse minimizes risk of harm to patients, families, providers and self through system effectiveness and individual performance.Technology/Informatics: The nurse utilizes appropriate information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making across the continuum.Teamwork: The nurse effectively engages in the process of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration in an effort to provide for safe, quality outcomes for patients within inter and intra-professional teams, including virtual teams.

Credentials:

+ Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)

+ BLS/CPR, as a healthcare provider as per the American Heart Association.

+ Registered Nurse - PA (Required)

+ Pennsylvania RN licensure

Education or Equivalent Experience:

+ Bachelor of Arts or Science (Required)

+ Education Specialization:BSN from an accredited school of nursingEquivalent Experience:•And More than 15 months relevant professional nursing experience and completion of the Nurse Residency Program, if applicable

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

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We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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