Registered Nurse Behavioral Health RN Home Health

Assess assigned case loads of behavioral health patients and families to identify physical, psychosocial, and environmental needs through documentation, clinical records, and interdisciplinary reports. Assume primary responsibility for caseloads by assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating treatment plans while making initial and follow-up visits. Counsel patients, facilities, and families on the interdisciplinary plan of care, teach behavioral health philosophy and symptom management, and supervise aide and LPN delivery of care. Communicate significant findings, unsafe conditions, and changes in health status to supervisors, physicians, and other personnel involved with patient care. Revisions to the plan of care are made in response to identified issues and notified to relevant team members.