Mental Health Intake Nurse - RN

About the Role

As a Mental Health Intake Nurse - RN, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn—whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

Provide a patient onboarding experience for patients admitting to the in-patient units and support in-patient units upon discharging. Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating, and documenting all aspects of patient care. Work closely with all healthcare providers to facilitate and coordinate efficient, effective, quality healthcare.

The individual must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the appropriate life span; possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his or her age-specific needs; and have the ability to provide care needed by the pertinent patient group(s). Implement and/or comply with all policies, procedures, and standards of the unit, department, and institution.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care with physicians and actively collaborate with other units, program staff, physicians, and members of other departments to facilitate optimal patient care.
• Provide patient education while administering medication and practice safe medication administration, including consistent scanning of patients and medications using eMar.
• Follow facility-established guidelines for reconciliation of medications on admission, during transfer, and at discharge.
• Assign and conduct appropriate individual and group interventions within the milieu for behavioral and safe management of patients while maintaining appropriate boundaries and demonstrating least restrictive interventions.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating treatment, patient safety, and programs.
• Assess patient’s response to treatment and safety interventions, and accurately document interventions and patient responses.
• Assist patients and families in understanding diagnoses, prescribed treatments, and safe management of symptoms related to specific mental disorders through health teaching.
• Document interventions within the Recovery Plan and utilize teaching skills related to psychoeducational and medical interventions and patient safety needs.
• Assume responsibility for renewing your license and completing all mandatory educational, health screening, CPR, and CPI requirements within the designated time frame.
• Transcribe orders accurately and scan orders to the pharmacy in a timely fashion.
• Provide new patients with an in-depth onboarding experience and support unit staff with discharging patients.

Requirements

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date).
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date).
• Registered Nurse (RN) license.
• Associate Degree, Bachelor’s Degree, or Registered Nurse Diploma.

Benefits

Medical City McKinney offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine services.
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence.
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling.
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts.

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

About the Organization

Medical City McKinney opened its doors more than 90 years ago and is a 285+ bed acute care hospital serving the residents of McKinney and northern Collin County. Our main campus is a Level III Trauma Center, providing emergency services at both the main campus and Medical City ER Stonebridge. We offer cardiovascular and neurological services, general surgery, orthopedics, women's services, a Level II neonatal intensive care unit, and behavioral health services. Medical City McKinney is a Primary Stroke Center, a stroke rehabilitation center, and is certified by The Joint Commission for total hip and total knee replacement. We are part of the Medical City network of hospitals, ensuring patients access to medical experts and advanced healthcare innovations across the network.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.