Registered Nurse Care Coordinator Inpatient Psychiatry

Full Time Days Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm.

 Why UT Southwestern? With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the #1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth for the sixth consecutive year, we invite you to continue your healthcare career with us at William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. You’ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for learning and advancement into leadership roles. The Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center has provided high-quality mental health and substance abuse services for adults since 1943.

Job Summary

This role assists the multidisciplinary team in developing, refining, updating and communicating the plan of care for patients to assist with both inpatient admission and/or initiation of treatment regimen. Utilization of case management processes and utilization review strategies to ensure the patients transition between care settings is seamless. Assist with coordinating patient care through case management with insurance authorization prior to admission and utilization review during a patient’s stay while on the inpatient psychiatry unit.

Job Duties

• Leads multidisciplinary team developing, refining, updating, and communicating plan of care for defined patient population. Implements clinical pathways including educational needs of patients/families, monitoring and updating for deviation from plan. Partners with community liaisons to proactively manage care transitions assuring seamless transitions between care settings and communications with ongoing providers.
• Collaborates with Social Work, Utilization Review, Clinical Documentation Specialists, and others as necessary to maximize financial/care resources for patient and family. Coordinates care with care team to maximize patient throughput and minimize length of stay.
• Rounds on patients daily to monitor & assure effective patient/family preparation for discharge assuring completion of learning/discharge objectives prior to time of planned discharge. Communicates effectively with other health care providers, patients, families, other hospital personnel and visitors.
• Demonstrates effective communication with adolescents, adults and older adults. Act as a liaison with various departments and ancillary services to ensure all pending orders and results are received in a timely manner.
• Ensures follow up appointments are scheduled prior to patient discharge. Responsible for ensuring that discharge instructions related to care coordination needs are documented in discharge instructions and that those elements are understood by patient and family/caregiver. Collaborates with physicians, unit manager, unit staff, and interdisciplinary team to ensure safe and timely discharge.

Experience and Education

• Three years’ experience as a RN in specialty area.
• Graduate of an accredited Nursing program, BSN preferred.
• Must be able to read, write and communicate in English.
• Current Texas RN (or BNE Compact State) license.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC).

To learn more about the benefits UT Southwestern offers visit https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/employees/hr-resources/

Security

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status. To learn more, please visit: https://jobs.utsouthwestern.edu/why-work-here/diversity-inclusion