About this role
Department: COMCARE Job ID: 13446 Pay: $74,203.00 annually Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm Sedgwick County offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees that includes health coverages, paid leave, regular compensation reviews, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities.
- For more detailed information, please visit our benefits page at SCBenefits . Provide direct and indirect services to patients.
- Respond to patient inquiries/issues by telephone and communicate with medical provider.
- Document verbal orders from medical provider.
- Document all patient interactions.
- Communicate with lab, pharmacies, and other health care providers.
- Provide medication for patients through pharmacy refills, samples, PAP, or other means.
- Provide direct services to patients through refill appointments, vital signs, provider referral, or urgent care needs.
- Assist medical providers in patient care or coordination.
- Assess and triage telephone patient telephone calls and drop in visits or appointments from patients of assigned medical providers for psychiatric and medical issues.
- Monitor signs and symptoms of mental illness.
- Monitor and encourage medication compliance.
- Monitor and assess for efficacy of prescribed medications.
- Monitor and assess for side effects of prescribed medications.
- Assess needs and communicate with medical provider.
- Provide education to patients regarding medications, mental health issues or other medical questions.
- Attend refill appointments (NSNAP) for assigned patients, as needed.
- Monitor vital signs, as needed.
- Provide crisis management, as needed.
- Document in the EHR all patient interactions and activities.
- Document all telephone calls with patients, including response to patient issue.
- Document interaction/directions with medical provider or other staff members.
- Document all refills in EHR and in electronic prescribing system.
- Document all samples, PAP, vouchers and other medications provided to patients.
- Document all contact regarding patient from outside entities.
- Coordinate patient care.
- Work medical provider orders as directed.
- Order/Enter lab and give patient instructions.
- Contact with pharmacies to coordinate or ascertain appropriateness of refills.
- Utilize electronic prescribing system, or other means, to refill medication.
- Coordinate care with outside agencies: group homes, substance abuse treatment centers, nursing homes, medical offices, hospitals, etc.
- Enter discharge orders into the EHR.
- Provide medication, as needed, for hospital discharges.
- Communicate, as needed, with family members, case managers, therapists, or other care partners.
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
- One year of experience in a related field.
- Registered Nurse in the State of Kansas.
- Meet the specifications as outlined in the CMHC/CCBHC licensing standards and pass KBI, DCF child abuse check, adult abuse registry, and motor vehicle screens.
- Must complete orientations provided by Sedgwick County and COMCARE.
Preferred Qualifications
- BSN.
- One year of work in the mental health or substance use treatment fields.
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