Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Job Summary

Provides outpatient advanced mental health care in partnership with one or more supervising physicians.

Responsibilities and Duties

• P practices advanced mental health care for each patient visit.
• Completes pertinent history and examination.
• Documents chief complaint, history of present illness, pertinent review of systems, and exam findings in electronic health record (“EHR”).
• Reviews and updates past medical history, family history, social history, medications, and allergies in EHR.
• Reviews vital signs.
• Reviews results and reports from prior orders.
• Places new orders.
• Performs and documents testing and procedures.
• Administers medications and immunizations.
• Determines and documents assessment and plan.
• Prescribes medications.
• Provides patient education, guidance, counseling and/or psychotherapy.
• Arranges plan for follow-up.
• Signs EHR encounter within timelines in established policies and procedures.
• Responds to related patient questions or needs which arise following encounter.
• Adheres to established scheduling templates in provision of patient care.
• Participates in quality metrics directives and departmental quality improvement (QI) projects.
• Attends practitioners’ meetings regularly.
• Attends clinical site meetings regularly.
• Attends practice-wide meetings regularly.
• Reads emails and other platforms of communication within organization.
• Completes peer review.
• Complies with Clinical Quality Measures expectations.
• Uses resources to verify standards of care.
• Modifies workflows as determined by department to attain QI objectives.
• Consistently documents activities related to QI projects.

Qualifications and Skills

• Maintains availability to receive phone calls throughout dates of on-call service.
• Responds to on-call contact within timelines in established policies and procedures.
• Documents on-call patient care in EHR.
• Notifies patient’s primary care physician of on-call patient care.

Qualifications

• Current licensure as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in good standing with the North Carolina Board of Nursing.
• Current certification as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.
• Current Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) licensure.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification