APRN PSYCH - FLOAT POSITION -

UNM Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry is seeking a compassionate and adaptable Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) to join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team. This unique float position offers the opportunity to work across several key areas:

• Crisis Triage Center
• Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES)
• Psychiatric Urgent Care
• Walk-in Clinic

This role is ideal for a provider who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is comfortable navigating a variety of clinical settings, patient populations, and psychiatric diagnoses. There is also potential for panel-management responsibilities, depending on departmental needs.

Schedule

• 12-hour shifts
• Weekend and holiday coverage required (rotating schedule)
• Flexibility and adaptability are essential

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited advanced-practice nursing program with specialization in psychiatric-mental health
• Current New Mexico Advanced Practice Nurse License (CNP, CNS, or CRNA)
• CPR for Healthcare Providers/BLS within 30 days of hire
• ACLS or PALS (as applicable) within 30 days of hire
• Minimum of 1 year of psychiatric experience
• Ability to exert 20–50 pounds of force occasionally, 10–25 pounds frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds constantly
• Exposure to hazardous chemicals and biohazardous materials; PPE required
• Tuberculosis testing completed upon hire and as required thereafter

Preferred: Bilingual proficiency in English/Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, Navajo, or Spanish.

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus available
• Relocation assistance available