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Raleigh Oaks Behavioral Health · 4 days ago

Admissions RN- Expeditor (9pm-7am)

Garner, NC

Part-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

1+ years exp

Raleigh Oaks Behavioral Health is a facility focused on providing mental health services, and they are seeking an Admissions RN- Expeditor to facilitate the intake and assessment processes for incoming patients. This role involves collaborating with medical staff, ensuring proper documentation for admissions, and providing initial evaluations to determine appropriate care levels.

Mental Health Care

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

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

Qualification

RN licenseMental health experienceClinical interviewingPatient assessmentManaged care pre-certificationTelephone etiquetteFirst aid certificationCPR certificationDe-escalation trainingInterpersonal skills

Required

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing required

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)

Preferred

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

First aid may be required based on state or facility requirements