Intake Nurse
3 weeks ago
The Intake Nurse - PRN is responsible for performing assessments at or outside the facility, depending on the needs of the patient or hospital. This role involves screening and assessing admissions to evaluate clinical and medical appropriateness and communicating this information to a physician who makes the admissions and level of care decision.
Key Responsibilities:
• 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 representatives in a timely manner
• 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 physicians to obtain orders, recommendations, and DSM-V diagnosis, when appropriate
• Communicates treatment recommendations to and coordinates with other treatment teams
• May administer patients' medications and follows all physicians' orders in consultation with psychiatrists and in accordance with established hospital and licensing agency protocols
• Maintains 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 patients, their families, and other appropriate facility staff
• Provides accurate and ongoing assessment of patient status in the admissions process
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
• Valid current RN license from the state or from a compact state, where applicable
• CPR and de-escalation and restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility)
• First aid may be required based on state or facility requirements
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