Mental Health Intake Specialist - RN PRN

Ready for a role that supports your unique calling in patient care and fits your life? At HCA Healthcare Live Oak Mental Health and Wellness, you’ll find clear pathways to advance backed by our unmatched nationwide transfer policy that lets you grow your career when the time is right for you. With mentorship opportunities, clinical education courses, professional certification support, and educational assistance, you will have all the resources you need to build the career of a lifetime.  

Provide a patient onboarding experience for patients admitting to the in-patient units. Provide support to in-patient units upon discharging. Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating and documenting all aspects of patient care. He/she will work closely with all health care providers to facilitate and coordinate efficient, effective, quality health care. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the appropriate life span; possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his or her age specific needs; and, have the ability to provide care needed by the pertinent patient group(s). He/she will implement and/or comply with all the policies, procedures and standards of the unit, department and the institution.

What you will do in this role:

• Coordination of care with physicians.
• Actively collaborates with other units and program staff, physicians and members of other departments to facilitate provision of optimal patient care.
• Provide patient education while administering medication.
• Practice safe medication administration consistent scanning of patient and medications.
• Scan all medications and patients using eMar.
• Follow facility established guidelines for reconciliation of medications on admission, during transfer and at discharge.
• Assign and conduct appropriate individual and group interventions within the milieu for behavioral and safe management of patients.
• Maintains appropriate boundaries.
• Demonstrate least restrictive interventions appropriately.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment, patient safety and programs.
• Assess patient’s response to treatment and safety interventions and accurately document interventions and patient’s response to intervention.
• Assist patients and families to understand the diagnosis, prescribed treatment, and safe management of symptoms related to specific mental disorders through health teaching.
• Document against the interventions within the Recovery Plan Utilize teaching skills related to psycho educational and medical interventions and patient safety needs with the patients and families.
• Assumes responsibility for renewing license.
• Assumes responsibility for completing all mandatory educational, health screening, CPR, and CPI requirements within designated time frame and for providing written verification of same for filing.
• Transcribes orders accurately and scans orders to pharmacy in a timely fashion. Provides the new patient with an in-depth on-boarding experience.
• Provides support to the unit staff with discharging patients. 

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• (RN) Registered Nurse
• Associate Degree

• No Travel Required
• 3 years experience Required Years of Experience

HCA Healthcare Live Oak Mental Health and Wellness, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Live Oak Mental Health and Wellness Center, is a part of Trident Health. We give inpatient stabilization treatment to patients who seek treatment for acute psychiatric symptoms which cannot be addressed on an outpatient basis. Common disorders of patients treated in this program include but are not limited to: major depressive disorder, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, adjustment disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, impulse control disorder and a variety of co-morbid personality disorders. Our patient population is both adult and adolescent. We offer 24 hour availability of a full range of services. We have the capability to institute rapid lifesaving interventions. Our physician availability is 24 hours a day to institute needed modification to the treatment plan. Psychiatrist involved in the direction and management of the treatment program. Round the clock skilled nursing care implementing the treatment plan and providing monitoring and assessment of the patient's condition and response to treatment.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Nurses play a pivotal role and are the backbone of healthcare delivery. At HCA Healthcare, we are dedicated to ensuring nurses have necessary tools and resources to provide world-class patient care, advocating for the profession and helping to shape the future of nursing."

Sammie Mosier, DHA, MA, BSN, NE-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive, HCA Healthcare

Join a family that cares about every stage in your career! We are interviewing candidates for our Intake Specialist - RN PRN opening. Apply today and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will reach out.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.