RN / REGISTERED NURSE - BEHAVIORAL HEALTH RN - Beebe Healthcare
Lewes, DE 19958
About the Job
Become part of the Beebe team - an inclusive team positioned in a vibrant, coastal community. Enjoy a fulfilling career as you support the health of our patients and a team focused on excellence.
Join our Nursing Team and Cultivate your Career:
At Beebe, we care about your professional nursing path and want to foster the growth and development of your career. Whether you decide to further your education, gain professional certifications, learn a new specialty area, educate or lead – we support it all. We do so by offering a nursing graduate residency program, clinical ladder, professional certification reimbursement, certification preparation curriculums, generous tuition assistance, flexible scheduling and shared governance where you can help guide nursing professional practice and have a voice as a bedside nurse.
Benefits
In addition to competitive compensation and wellness benefits (medical, dental, vision and prescription) Beebe Healthcare also offers:
- Sign-on and Referral Bonuses for select positions
- Tuition Assistance up to $5,000
- Paid Time Off
- Long Term Sick accrual
- Employer Contribution Plan
- Free Short and Long-Term Disability for Full Time employees
- Zero copay for drugs on prescription plan for certain conditions
- College Bound 529 Savings Plan
- Life Insurance
- Beebe Perks via WorkAdvantage
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pet Insurance
Join Our Team as a Behavioral Health Nurse and Make a Meaningful Impact!
Are you passionate about behavioral health and ready to make a difference in the lives of patients? We are seeking a dedicated Behavioral Health Registered Nurse to join our team and assist in coordinating care referrals and ensuring patients receive the best possible care transitions. Full time opportunities are currently available.
About the Role:
As an RN in our Behavioral Health Team, you will:
- Collaborate closely with our care coordination team to facilitate referrals to other facilities or higher levels of care.
- Play a vital role in arranging final disposition arrangements, ensuring seamless transitions for patients.
- Utilize your expertise in behavioral health to provide compassionate and effective care to patients in need.
Assessment:
- Ability to effectively assess patients holistically for behavioral health needs, work with physicians for plan of care , transfer and discharge planning needs, real and/or potential. Monitors for return patients for appropriate outside care management.
Planning:
- Ability to use resources effectively to insure timely transfer/discharge of patients to the appropriate level of care. Refers to local agencies as needed.
- Collaborates with state agencies.
- Communicates with nursing and physcians on plan of care.
- Maintains familiarity with laws, regulations and interpretations pertinent to discharge planning.
- Understands local resources.
- Uses tele-psych equipment, paper work required for BH transfers and documentation in patient record.
- In collaboration with nursing and other team members, charts ongoing assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of outcomes of discharge planning. Maintains a resource folder for all units for BH.
Decision Making:
- Ability to make sound decisions regarding outpatient resources in collaboration with medical provider.
Organizational Skills:
- Ability to prioritize cases and complete tasks in a way to expedite discharges/transfers.
- Patient teaching activities.
- Works with Managers of all units for staff education for BH patient population.
- Other duties as assigned.
- 1 year behavioral Health Experience.
- Skills include ability to complete psychosocial assessment, exceptional communication and problem solving skills, general knowledge of utilization management, understanding of levels of care and community resources.
- Demonstrated skills of organization, team work, strong interpersonal and written communication skills, and flexible work schedule, and be self motivated.
- Must be proficient in word processing programs and use of clinical software.
- BSN preferred.
- Certification for Delaware Commital Process preferred.
Essential:
* Clear Communication Skills Both Written And Verbal
* Able To Keep Confidential Information Regarding Patients, Team Members
* Able To Withstand Crisis Situations
* Has Skills To Provides Customer Service To Patients, Team Members And Visitors
* Knowledge And Experience With Electronic Health Records
* Experience With Excel, Power Point, Word, Visio, Etc.
Essential:
* RN - Registered Nurse
* BLS - Basic Life Saving certification
Essential:
* RN Diploma/RN Graduate Program
