Intake RN - PM

SBH-Green Bay; United States; In loco; USD 65.000 - 85.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Eagle View Behavioral Health in Bettendorf, Iowa is seeking an Intake RN for night shift coverage (7 PM–7 AM, three 12-hour shifts; EO weekend). The role includes admissions, initial evaluations, and coordinated care across psychiatry teams.

Responsibilities span documenting symptoms, processing pre-authorizations, and supporting call-center admissions activities. The ideal candidate is an RN with psychiatric admission/assessment experience, strong communication, and the ability to collaborate

Competenze

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing is required.
• One or more years' experience in mental health admissions preferred.
• Experience in clinical interviewing and patient assessment.
• Experience with managed care pre-certification and utilization review.
• Strong communication and telephone etiquette.

Mansioni

• Facilitates admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients and documents symptoms and needs.
• Collaborates with facility staff to coordinate admissions and communicate projected admissions.
• Provides coverage for call center duties including processing admission requests and insurance pre-certifications.
• Ensures medical admission documentation is gathered and pre-authorizations secured.
• Reviews charts to determine medical necessity and coordinates with physicians for orders and DSM-V diagnoses.
• Advocates for appropriate level of care and coordinates transfer between levels within the facility.
• May administer medications under psychiatrist supervision and ensure safety and documentation of drug administration.
• Maintains medication accountability and assists with adverse drug reaction reporting.

Conoscenze

Mental health admissions

Clinical interviewing

Assessment skills

Interpersonal communication

Formazione

RN with BSN preferred

Descrizione del lavoro

Intake RN - PM | Eagle View Behavioral Health | Bettendorf, Iowa

About the Job:

Schedule: 7PM - 7AM (3) - 12Hr. Shifts EO Weekend

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Facilitates admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients. Provides initial evaluation and initiate 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.
• Performs 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.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• 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.

LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:

Valid current RN license from the stat