Registered Nurse - Assessment and Referral (Swing Shift)

Assesses the needs of prospective patients and phone callers to ensure their referral to the service or resource that best address their needs.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Responds to telephone and face-to-face inquiries from persons seeking mental health care or information about mental health-related services.
• Collects and analyzes data regarding the patient's physical, psychosocial, environmental, self-care, educational, spiritual, cultural and anticipated discharge needs; conducts screenings or assessments to determine needs of treatment.
• Facilitates the patient's access to the appropriate level of care and setting.
• A ssumes responsibility in maintaining a safe, orderly and therapeutic physical environment for all patients.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with physicians and health professional affiliates, healthcare facilities, and nursing staff.
• Demonstrates good skills in assessing client's crisis and clinical indicators via phone and in-person - documenting such.
• Prepares written report of assessment results in a timely manner (immediately following completed assessment) and includes recommendations for the level of care and treatment needs.
• Makes appropriate interventions during assessments, and crisis situations with clients, family / friends and other professional staff.
• Assesses need for involuntary hospitalization evaluation and contacts county crisis team, law enforcement or L2K certified AVDMH employee as needed to ensure the safety of client and others.
• Enters the data of calls and assessments in the computer system in a timely manner.
• Documents physician’s phone orders
• Assists clients who are not admitted into a program with follow through of clinical referrals and recommendations.
• Provides pertinent clinical information to physician and program staff who will be reviewing the patient, to ensure a smooth transition for the patient.
• Maintains knowledge of legal guidelines pertaining to EMTALA / COBRA and abuse / neglect reporting.

Schedule is Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 10 : 00am - 10 : 30pm

Requirements

Benefits

A full benefits package is available the first of the month following just one month of employment!

Desert Parkway offers competitive benefits to include :