Job description
Overview:
Promotes a culture of evidence-based practice by participation in any of, but not limited to, the following activities:
Education
Experience
License/Certification/Registration
Preferred
Education
Experience
License/Certification/Registration
Additional Requirements (must be obtained or completed within a period of time):
This is your opportunity to join a highly skilled professional team of mental health providers including licensed psychotherapists, trainees, nurses and occupatioal therapists. The Adult Partial Hospitalization Program and Adult Mental Health Outpatient Programs offer group-based therapy, support, education and skill development services to patients experiencing an increase in mental health symptoms and/or life stressors. Multi-family education is also provided. Services are usually a step-down or alternative to an inpatient level of care and include Partial Hospitalization, Intensive Outpatient Programming and Day Treatment. We offer in-person services to our patients. Employees will be working on-site at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, West Bank.
Responsibilities/Job Description:
Job Expectations:
Works collaboratively with the physician and the interdisciplinary team
- Implements physician directed care within prescribed timeframe.
- Participates on the interdisciplinary team to ensure coordination and cooperation among team members for patient care.
Contributes to the development of an individualized treatment plan
- Collaborates with patient, family, and other interdisciplinary team members to develop an individualized treatment plan.
- Develops and individualized treatment plan based on age, social and cultural considerations, clinical diagnosis, level of functioning and other relevant needs.
- Acts as a liaison between patient, family, community resources, multidisciplinary team and other concerned parties on assessment and treatment issues.
- Provides ongoing assessment, monitoring, and interventions of the client’s health needs.
- Documents the plan in a legible, thorough, timely and clinically appropriate manner.
- Provides case management and coordinates the treatment planning process in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
Participates in developing and implementing a clinically appropriate discharge plan.
- Identifies health related discharge needs.
- Acts, as assigned, as a liaison between patient, family, community resources, multidisciplinary team, and other concerned parties on discharge issues.
- Documents the discharge plan in a legible, thorough, timely and clinically appropriate manner.
- Contributes to an individualized discharge plan based on age, social and cultural considerations, clinical diagnosis, level of functioning and other relevant needs.
Facilitates individual and group psychoeducation.
- Focuses on the management of physical and mental health conditions.
- Provides appropriate client education on the use of prescribed medication and its side effects.
Communicates effectively with others.
- Communicates only appropriate clinical information.
- Ensures both written and verbal information in a clear, concise, and accurate manner.
Demonstrates the ability to support the business functions of the outpatient program
- Completes the billing function for services provided
- Completes the requirements of various payers and utilization management reviewers to obtain authorization for treatment.
Demonstrates the ability to advance evidence-based practice by utilizing standards, guidelines, and pathways for care delivery. Incorporates data and information into practice to continually improve care and practice so that patient outcomes are enhanced.
Promotes a culture of evidence-based practice by participation in any of, but not limited to, the following activities:
- Utilizing evidence-based policies in clinical practice
- Attends and participates in learning opportunities about evidence-based practice
- Membership in hospital or unit-based nursing practice council/research council
- Evidence based practice project (e.g. policy development or poster presentation)
- Journal club
- Journal article critique and circulation
- Literature review
- Development of standard/pathway/guideline for patient care
- Presentation
- Research study
Required
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing or Behavioral Science
Experience
Three years in mental health or related setting
License/Certification/Registration
Current Registered Nurse license in Minnesota
Basic Life Support Certification prior to end of orientation
Preferred
Education
Experience
Outpatient experience
License/Certification/Registration
Certified Registered Nurse
Additional Requirements (must be obtained or completed within a period of time):
- Basic computer and keyboarding skills
- For Nurse Liaisons in Behavioral, completion of de-escalation and self-defense training and retraining every two years or as often as required. (Not required for Fairview Medical Group Nurse Liaisons.)
- Basic Life Support Certification prior to end of orientation
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