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Good morning,

What clinical roles are being used in your ambulatory psych clinics? Is anyone hiring qualified mental health professionals or mental health partners/assistants and if so what is their role in the clinic? Looking forward to any responses, thank you!

Good morning,

Great question and I am looking forward to the responses.

We are going to be adding some clinic visits for the psych service line in the near future. My thought is we we should do a complete intake with a RN just like we do for our other clinics before rooming the patient. I am wondering if any of you have experience with this and if you do a complete RN intake with vitals and screening and the entire intake process for these clinic visits?

I have made this recommendation that we should have the same intake process, but would appreciate to know what our peer institutions do in their ambulatory clinics? Thank you all.

Good morning,

What clinical roles are being used in your ambulatory psych clinics? Is anyone hiring qualified mental health professionals or mental health partners/assistants and if so what is their role in the clinic? Looking forward to any responses, thank you!

Hi Kathy,

Our patients do go through the rooming process, which includes vital signs and screenings. The clinic I am covering has the RN performing this currently but we have introduced mental health partners and I am trying to understand what they can/cannot do since they are not clinically trained like the LPN, MA, or CNA/PCT (their only requirement is that they have a Bachelor's of Science in a Social Science field). 

Good morning,

Great question and I am looking forward to the responses.

We are going to be adding some clinic visits for the psych service line in the near future. My thought is we we should do a complete intake with a RN just like we do for our other clinics before rooming the patient. I am wondering if any of you have experience with this and if you do a complete RN intake with vitals and screening and the entire intake process for these clinic visits?

I have made this recommendation that we should have the same intake process, but would appreciate to know what our peer institutions do in their ambulatory clinics? Thank you all.

Good morning,

What clinical roles are being used in your ambulatory psych clinics? Is anyone hiring qualified mental health professionals or mental health partners/assistants and if so what is their role in the clinic? Looking forward to any responses, thank you!