APRN PSYCH -

Overview

Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) in Behavioral Health deliver outpatient psychiatric care in a clinic setting for adults 18+. They collaborate with a multidisciplinary team including physicians, pharmacists, rehabilitation specialists, and others to provide compassionate and evidence-based care.

Success Profile

• Adaptable
• Compassionate
• Coachable
• Organized
• Tech savvy
• Team player

Department and Shift Details

Department: OPD Psych Providers
FTE: 1.00
Full Time
Shift: Days

Responsibilities

• PATIENT CARE - Assess, diagnose, and develop treatment plans; implement treatment, follow-up, and evaluate patients within scope of practice protocols
• PRESCRIP AUTHORITY - Prescribe and distribute all drugs, including controlled substances
• PATIENT CARE - Perform patient history and physical exams as needed for procedures or admissions; document findings noting pertinent normal and abnormal findings
• PATIENT CARE - Perform invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• PATIENT CARE - Evaluate and revise intervention care/treatment plan with patient and family as necessary to achieve improved health
• DOCUMENTATION - Provide accurate documentation of patient care, document orders, directives, procedures and patient responses in the medical record and communicate them to other members of the health care team; maintain accurate, legible and confidential records
• PATIENT CARE - Provide education for patients and/or families about preventative care, medical issues and use of the prescribed medical treatment
• PATIENT CARE - Work as a team member with medical/nursing/counseling staff to provide comprehensive care and promote continuity of care
• EDUCATION - Guide, teach, support and serve as a clinical resource nursing and medical staff
• TRAINING - Act as a role model for advanced practice professions, precept nurses, other advanced practice nurses and physician assistant students
• RESEARCH - Support research by conducting or participating in research studies; incorporate findings in clinical practice
• DEVELOPMENT - Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings and workshops
• PATIENT SAFETY 1 - Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols
• PATIENT SAFETY 2 - Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes
• PATIENT SAFETY 3 - Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
• PATIENT SAFETY 4 - Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner
• PATIENT SAFETY 5 - Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"

Qualifications

• Education: Program Graduate, Advanced Nurse or Clinical Nurse Spec
• Experience: 1 year psychiatric experience
• Credentials: CPR for Healthcare/BLS Prov or Prof Rescuer, NM Advanced Practice Nurse License (CNP, CNS, CRNA), ACLS or PALS (as applicable)
• Physical Conditions: Medium Work