Clinical Nurse - Behavioral Health Care Facilitator
Location: Dover Delaware
Description: Provisions Recruitment is looking of Clinical Nurse - Behavioral Health Care Facilitator right now, this position will be placed in Delaware. More complete informations about this position opportunity kindly see the descriptions. We seeking a Clinical Nurse - Behavioral Health Care Facilitator for Dover AFB (this is a contract position).
As a member of the Beha! vioral Health team, provides mental health clinical case management, care coordination and disease management. This includes, but is not limited to the conditions of depression, anxiety disorders, tobacco cessation, weight management, TBI and PTSD. Monitors and facilitates adherence to treatments, provides education, coordinates care, and maintains data registries, performs full scope of clinical nursing in the execution of outpatient mental health care.
Responsibilities/Tasks:
- Proactively identifies and evaluates patients and targeted populations for mental health case management, care coordination and facilitation, and conditions monitoring from a variety of sources such as Behavioral health or primary care provider referrals, discharge planning, Medical Evaluation Board (MEB) process, facility staff and patient self-referral. Conducts systematic, ongoing, thorough assessment of patient’s emotional, psychological, social and medical status, ! prescribed medications, health referrals/treatments, and other! pertinent information via direct patient or telephonic contact, or other relevant sources such as professional and non-professional caregivers and the medical records.
- Develops, executes and provides ongoing monitoring of appropriate patient-specific plan of care including short and long term goals, objectives and actions. Coordinates and collaborates on the care plan along with the patient, family/caregiver, and healthcare team.
- Identifies, develops and executes appropriate targeted population-based mental health disease management activities such as, but not limited to individual and/or group patient contacts and training programs.
- Serves as an advocate for and ensures appropriate education is provided to the patient or targeted populations for the purpose of promoting adherence to treatment plans, self-care actions, and education programs. Ensures activities match the level of the patient’s clinical risk, readiness to change and health liter! acy.
- Identifies, collects, monitors, interprets and evaluates measureable outcome data within established time frames according to local/AF/DoD requirements. Submits reports as required per local/AF/DoD policy and guidance.
- Educates/trains the healthcare team and facility staff on policies and procedures for utilization and implementation of guidelines, protocols and other behavioral health and mental health disease management activities.
- Coordinates and participates in interdisciplinary team meetings, designated facility meetings, and Care Coordination meetings. Shares knowledge and experiences gained from own clinical nursing practice and education relevant to mental health nursing and case management. Participates in local, AF, DoD and national teleconferences as required and relative to the program operations and reporting requirements.
- Participates in the orientation, education and training of other staff. May serve on committees, wo! rk groups, and task forces at the facility.
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If you were eligible to this position, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Provisions Recruitment.
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This position starts available on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 05:28:10 GMT
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