Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive psychiatric assessments to new, returning, and transferring clients and document encounters thoroughly with attention to collaborative participation from the patient.
• Manage an ongoing caseload of clients requiring medication and non-medication management. Clients may be inpatient, outpatient, or both, depending on the particular job assignment.
• Provide care in various settings as medically and situationally appropriate, including in-person and via telehealth (audio-visual).
• Partner with and support the team leaders and help to coordinate clinical decisions of the treatment team. This includes a contribution to care planning, prioritization of goals, and assessment of progress within the teams.
• Participate with utilization management/review and understand or be willing to learn the coding guidelines necessary to encounter the clinical services appropriately rendered.
• Provide education to teams about medication management, safety, and side-effect monitoring.
• Coordinate clinical decisions with other medical providers and collaborating treatment partners.
• Document concurrently in most cases and when practicable.
• Provide clinical documentation in a complete, accurate, and timely manner.
• Provide cross-coverage, when called upon, for other units and services requiring psychiatric care services, as determined by the Medical Director.
• Participate in on-call coverage rotation for the 24-hour programs as determined by the Medical Provider Team.
• May participate in precepting and education for medical residents, psychiatric ARNPs, and DNPs.
• Provide formal or informal education to the team. e.g., presenting cases, lectures, and in-services for the staff.
• Participate in administrative activities, including meetings of the Medical Services Team and quality assurance activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• EDUCATION: ARNP/DNP
• EXPERIENCE: Experienced (minimum of 2 years of diagnostic-level clinical experience)
• LICENSE: RN/ARNP active license in Washington. PMHNP specialty in psychiatry.
• CERTIFICATION: Active and unencumbered DEA registered in WA State.