Psychiatric intake nurse

[O B, LVN]

I'm wondering what the difference is between an evaluation and an assessment is for doing psychiatric intakes to a PHF? For context: I applied for an intake position at a PHF in California, and was verbally offered the job, but when it came down to receiving the official offer, there was a bunch of scrambling behind the scenes to determine if I, as an LVN, could do the intake assessment or if it was technically out of my scope of practice. However, as a concession, I was offered an intake COUNSELOR position which detailed that I'd be doing evaluations with recommendations for level of care and treatment needs. This just sounds like I'd be doing assessments but with more words. Can anyone shed any light on the difference?