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Public Health / MAT Nurse (RN)
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$36.67 - $45.85 an hour
Full-time
- The RN will use a harm reduction and trauma-informed approach to provide specialized nursing support to people who use drugs, men who have sex with men, transgender individuals and their partners.
- Provide patients with accessible care that operates within the harm reduction framework
- Provides episodic care as appropriate to the target populations with an emphasis on wound care, HIV and HCV prevention, and behavioral issues (i.e. medication compliance, safe sex) and provide follow-up as indicated.
- Guides patients through medication inductions, including assessment of signs/symptoms of opioid withdrawal using the COW (Clinical Opioid Withdrawal) scale
- Maintains comprehensive knowledge of medical developments in preventing and treating HIV/AIDS and HCV infection, pain management, health issues related to homelessness and injection drug use, as well as and behavioral issues (i.e. medication compliance, safe sex, social and behavioral effects of drug use) as well as other medical conditions appropriate.
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