Nurse Practitioner (APRN), 40 hours, Behavioral Health, Putnam, CT

Nurse Practitioner (APRN) Job Summary

As a Nurse Practitioner (APRN), you will provide comprehensive, patient-centered care within a collaborative, multidisciplinary healthcare team. Working alongside physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, behavioral health professionals, and other healthcare staff, you will deliver high-quality, evidence-based care that promotes the physical and emotional well-being of our patients. In this role, you will demonstrate clinical leadership through direct patient care, collaboration and consultation with the healthcare team, patient and family education, quality improvement initiatives, and ongoing professional development.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess, manage, prescribe, and evaluate appropriate therapeutic and pharmacological interventions for common illnesses according to standards of practice.
• Consult or make referral to primary care physician, other health care professionals or agencies when a situation is beyond their level of expertise or when additional services are needed to coordinate their health care.

Education and Experience Requirements

• If licensed after 1999, must have Master’s Degree in Nursing from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program required.
• American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Certification as a Psychiatric-Mental Health-NP Required.
• Current Federal DEA and State Controlled Substance License required.
• Current Connecticut State RN/APRN Licensure.
• 2-3 years experience in clinical setting providing direct patient care required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to discriminate between normal and abnormal findings in the history and physical exam in order to establish a diagnosis.
• Ability to assess severity of patient’s illness and establish need/time for patient's evaluation.
• Ability to plan and care for patient’s identified problem including medication, diet, therapeutic procedures, etc.
• Ability to consult with other health team members regarding proposed treatment guidelines.
• Ability to form therapeutic relationships with patients.
• Demonstrate appropriate communication, interpersonal and organizational skills, and ability to maintain positive relationship with physicians, nurses and other hospital personnel.
• Demonstrate leadership and advanced clinical decision making skills.
• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity to diverse populations.
• Demonstrates responsibility for continual professional development and commitment to advanced practice nursing.
• Must be self-directed, creative and able to work independently.