Part-time Nurse Practitioner - Heartland Behavioral Healthcare - PN 20001924

About the role

At DBH you will serve as a health care provider, providing primary health care in coordination and collaboration with physician, interdisciplinary health care and mental health team.

Responsibilities

• Creates & implements patient care plans and performs advanced nursing duties within boundaries of licensure
• Monitors progress of patients and intervenes in the course of acute illness
• Completes comprehensive health exam and dictates findings, including assessments for suicidality and homicidality
• Evaluates necessity for further testing or referral to appropriate specialist
• Dictates discharge narrative summaries
• Analyzes and documents findings & prescribes medications or administers treatment of acute & chronically ill patients
• Evaluates necessity for referral consultations inside or outside the regional psychiatric hospital; orders & reviews results of laboratory, x-ray & other diagnostic testing
• Provides clinical direction to registered nurses, licensed practical nurses & other caregivers
• Serves as resource person to other entities (e.g., infection control, education & training office)
• Performs H&Ps and attends to all physical health needs of patients, as requested by the unit staffs, on the weekend/holidays

Requirements

• Valid license as Registered Nurse
• Completion of Nurse Practitioner program
• Certified by Ohio Board of Nursing for advanced practice with valid certificate of authority
• Certificate to prescribe in accordance with ORC 4723

Skills

• Nursing Technical Skills: Mental Health, Behavioral Health
• Professional Skills: Analyzation, Consultation, Customer Focus, Priority Setting, Written Communication
• Organization: Behavioral Health

Pay

Hourly pay range: $43.56

Schedule

Part-time; 24 hours per week on Sunday, Wednesday, and Saturday.