Intake Nurse

[fiba]

Anyone an intake nurse or ever been one

it looks really fun and rewarding. My idea of Psych nursing is one of the intake nurse, but I bet there are other areas where psych nurses work.

What are you thoughts about intake nursing? what is the be all end all position if one is a psychiatric nurse.

[vegnurse21]

Intake at my facility was very different. We did screenings via the telephone and got patients from outlying facilities. We only went to the ER if there was a conflict of some kind between the psychiatrist and the ER staff. The patients had to "meet criteria" for admission and that would present some issues sometimes. It was incredibly stressful on my unit because I would have to also do the insurance work too for pre-cert and also do ECTs with the psychiatrist three days a week. We would sometimes have up to 8 patients coming at the same time and NO ONE was hardly ever willing to help me out which put too much responsibility on my shoulders. I loved doing the admissions but hated the lack of teamwork and overload of work that would sometimes occur.

[fiba]

Intake at my facility was very different. We did screenings via the telephone and got patients from outlying facilities. We only went to the ER if there was a conflict of some kind between the psychiatrist and the ER staff. The patients had to "meet criteria" for admission and that would present some issues sometimes. It was incredibly stressful on my unit because I would have to also do the insurance work too for pre-cert and also do ECTs with the psychiatrist three days a week. We would sometimes have up to 8 patients coming at the same time and NO ONE was hardly ever willing to help me out which put too much responsibility on my shoulders. I loved doing the admissions but hated the lack of teamwork and overload of work that would sometimes occur.

lack of teamwork, that does not sound good. Were co workers busy with other tasks? I hear health care workers do many different things at once.