Intake RN - Night Shift (5k Sign-On Bonus)

SBH-Willmington, LLC; United States; In loco; USD 60.000 - 85.000; Tempo pieno

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Sign-on bonus

Descrizione del lavoro

Carolina Dunes Behavioral Health in Leland, NC is seeking an Intake RN for full-time night shift (Thursday–Sunday 9pm–7am) with a $5k sign-on bonus. The Intake RN handles patient intake, admissions screening, insurance verification, and coordination with medical staff to ensure timely admissions.

The role requires BSN preferred, RN license, and experience in mental health admissions, with strong communication and documentation skills; onsite work with collaboration across teams.

Competenze

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing required.
• BSN preferred.
• One or more years' experience in mental health or substance use disorder admissions preferred.
• Experience in clinical interviewing, patient assessment, referral, treatment planning, communicating with external review organizations or comparable entities.
• Experience in the managed care pre-certification process, level of care assessments and utilization.
• Outstanding interpersonal and interviewing and assessment skills.
• Skill in telephone etiquette and paging procedures.

Mansioni

• Facilitates admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients.
• Provides initial evaluation and initiates the integrated assessment, documenting patient symptoms, functioning and needs.
• Collaborates with other facility medical and psychiatric staff to ensure appropriate recommendations and admissions.
• Communicates projected admissions to designated internal representative in a timely manner.
• Provides additional coverage for the Call Center Team – e.g. answers phones, processes admission requests, completes call center duties reviewing and accepting patients, verifies insurance, and assists with insurance pre-certifications during times of high volume
• Ensures all medical admission documentation is gathered from external sources prior to patient admission and secures initial pre-authorization for treatment and admission.
• Reviews patient charts to determine medical necessity and staffs each referral and assessment with appropriate physician to obtain orders, recommendations, and DSM-V diagnosis, when appropriate.
• Communicates treatment recommendations to and coordinate with other treatment teams.
• May administer patients’ medications and follows all physician's orders in consultation with psychiatrist and in accordance with established hospital and licensing agency protocols.
• Educates patients on side effects, and through discussions determines the effectiveness of education; questions compliance and adjusts medications under psychiatrists' supervision as needed; monitors lab results to validate medication compliance.
• May maintain accountability of administration, recording, control and security of medications, including narcotics.
• Assures completion of Adverse Drug Reaction forms as necessary.
• Maintains knowledge of the most common medications used for psychiatric patients.
• Advocates for the lowest level of care consistent with the patient’s needs.
• Coordinates admission and transfer between levels of care within the facility.
• Assures thorough, accurate documentation is completed for all patients on each shift and facilitates the response to requests for services, including the initial response, the assessment, and referral process, the designation of appropriate level of care, initiation/admission into services, and appropriate follow up activity.
• Responds to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes.
• Perform insurance benefit verifications, disseminating the information gathered to patient, their families and other appropriate facility staff.
• Provides accurate and ongoing assessment of patient status in the admissions process.
• Reviews client charts to determine medical necessity and staffs each referral and assessment with appropriate physician to obtain orders, recommendations, and DSM-V diagnosis, when appropriate.
• Other duties as assigned, including assisting on patient unit.
• May administer clients’ medications.
• Follows all physician's orders in consultation with psychiatrist and in accordance with established hospital and licensing agency protocols.
• Educates patients on side effects, and through discussions determines the effectiveness of education; questions compliance and adjusts medications under psychiatrists' supervision as needed; monitors lab results to validate medication compliance.
• May maintain accountability of administration, recording, control and security of medications, including narcotics.
• Assures completion of Adverse Drug Reaction forms as necessary.
• Maintains knowledge of the most common medications used for psychiatric clients.

Conoscenze

Interpersonal communication

Assessment skills

Clinical interviewing

Telephone etiquette

Formazione

BSN preferred

Descrizione del lavoro

Carolina Dunes Behavioral Health in Leland, NC is seeking an Intake RN for full-time night shift (Thursday–Sunday 9pm–7am) with a $5k sign-on bonus. The Intake RN handles patient intake, admissions screening, insurance verification, and coordination with medical staff to ensure timely admissions.

The role requires BSN preferred, RN license, and experience in mental health admissions, with strong communication and documentation skills; onsite work with collaboration across teams.