Mental Health Intake Specialist - RN - PRN

About the Role

This is a PRN night shift role responsible for providing a patient onboarding experience for patients admitting to the in-patient units and providing support to in-patient units upon discharging. The position involves assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating and documenting all aspects of patient care while working closely with all health care providers to facilitate and coordinate efficient, effective, quality health care.

Responsibilities

• Coordination of care with physicians
• Actively collaborate with other units and program staff, physicians and members of other departments to facilitate provision of optimal patient care
• Provide patient education while administering medication
• Practice safe medication administration consistent scanning of patient and medications
• Scan all medications and patients 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
• Maintain appropriate boundaries
• Demonstrate least restrictive interventions appropriately
• Collaborate with 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's response to intervention
• Assist patients and families to understand the diagnosis, prescribed treatment, and safe management of symptoms related to specific mental disorders through health teaching
• Document against the interventions within the Recovery Plan
• Utilize teaching skills related to psycho educational and medical interventions and patient safety needs with the patients and families
• Assume responsibility for renewing license
• Assume responsibility for completing all mandatory educational, health screening, CPR, and CPI requirements within designated time frame and for providing written verification of same for filing
• Transcribe orders accurately and scan orders to pharmacy in a timely fashion
• Provide the new patient with an in-depth on-boarding experience
• Provide support to the unit staff with discharging patients

Qualifications

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
• (RN) Registered Nurse
• Associate Degree or Registered Nurse Diploma
• 3 years experience required
• No Travel Required

Benefits

• 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

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