Intake RN/FT/PM

Intake RN

Join our team at Miramont Behavioral Health in Middleton, Wisconsin, where we offer a supportive environment for our staff and patients. This position involves 12-hour shifts (7 PM - 7 AM) on a rotating schedule, with every other weekend required.

Job Description

• Perform assessments at or outside the facility, depending on the needs of the patient or hospital.
• Screen and assess admissions to evaluate clinical and medical appropriateness and communicate this information to a physician who makes the admissions and level of care decision.
• Work closely with business office, nursing, and clinical staff as well as external parties to ensure the timely admission of patients.
• Respond to inquiries regarding admissions.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Facilitate admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients. Provide initial evaluation and initiate the integrated assessment, documenting patient symptoms, functioning, and needs.
• Collaborate with other facility medical and psychiatric staff to ensure appropriate recommendations and admissions. Communicate projected admissions to designated internal representatives in a timely manner.
• Ensure all medical admission documentation is gathered from external sources prior to patient admission and secure initial pre-authorization for treatment and admission.
• Review patient charts to determine medical necessity and staff each referral and assessment with the appropriate physician to obtain orders, recommendations, and DSM-V diagnosis, when appropriate.
• Communicate treatment recommendations to and coordinate with other treatment teams.
• Administer patients' medications and follow all physician's orders in consultation with psychiatrist and in accordance with established hospital and licensing agency protocols. Educate patients on side effects, and through discussions determine the effectiveness of education; question compliance and adjust medications under psychiatrists' supervision as needed; monitor lab results to validate medication compliance.
• Maintain accountability of administration, recording, control, and security of medications, including narcotics. Assure completion of Adverse Drug Reaction forms as necessary. Maintain knowledge of the most common medications used for psychiatric patients.
• Advocate for the lowest level of care consistent with the patient's needs. Coordinate admission and transfer between levels of care within the facility.
• Assure thorough, accurate documentation is completed for all patients on each shift and facilitate the response to requests for services, including the initial response, the assessment, referral process, designation of appropriate level of care, initiation/admission into services, and appropriate follow-up activity.
• Respond to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes.
• Perform insurance benefit verifications, disseminating the information gathered to patients, their families, and other appropriate facility staff.
• Provide 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, interviewing, and assessment skills. Skill in telephone etiquette and paging procedures.

Licenses/Designations/Certifications

• 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.

Supervisory Requirements

This position is an individual contributor.

Benefits

Miramont Behavioral Health offers a comprehensive benefit plan and a competitive salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Veterans and military spouses are highly encouraged to apply. Summit BHC is dedicated to serving Veterans with specialized programming at our treatment centers across the country. We recognize and value the unique strengths of the military community in supporting our mission to serve those who have served.