Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

About the Role

Primary Health Solutions is seeking a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to provide comprehensive psychiatric and medical care to our patient population in health center and school-based settings. This role evaluates and treats patients, supports continuity of care, provides patient and family education, collaborates with physicians and other members of the care team, and completes the clinical and administrative responsibilities necessary to provide high-quality patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provides primary medical care to the patient population.
• Consults with staff physicians in making decisions regarding patient care.
• Evaluates and treats patients in health centers and school-based settings, ensuring continuity of care.
• Provides nighttime, weekday, or some weekend and holiday call coverage as part of the work schedule.
• Provides patient and family education and counseling.
• May participate in training nurse practitioner students as requested.
• Maintains complete medical records, including histories, physical examinations, and telephone message summaries.
• Completes appropriate progress notes in each assigned work area and other special patient forms.
• Completes appropriate correspondence, phone calls, and letters to patients and referring physicians.
• Checks laboratory reports and correspondence within 24 to 48 hours of receipt and acts on abnormal laboratory results immediately.
• Participates in health collaborative and health improvement activities.
• Carries out medical administrative functions necessary for quality patient care and compliance with accreditation requirements.
• Participates in committee activities, chart reviews, and may engage in Quality Improvement and Risk Management activities.
• Attends Department/Center meetings as assigned.
• Performs all other duties and tasks as assigned.

Core Competencies

• Customer Service: Committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets proper customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met.
• Communication: Understands and communicates effectively with others using a variety of contexts and formats, including writing, speaking, reading, listening, and interpersonal skills.
• Dependability: Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, meets attendance/punctuality requirements.
• Quality: Attentive to detail and accuracy, committed to excellence, continuously looks for improvements, monitors quality levels, finds root causes of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Productivity: Manages a fair workload, volunteers for additional work, prioritizes tasks, develops good work procedures, manages time well, handles information flow.

Requirements

• Master of Science degree in Nursing and graduation from an approved nurse practitioner program.
• Two years of experience working in psychiatric/mental health with indigent populations and community-based programs is preferred.
• Experience as a provider or in a similar role is required.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Working knowledge of NextGen or other EHR/EMR systems.
• Ability to gain knowledge of current practice management systems, electronic medical records, Microsoft Word, text paging, Internet, and Intranet.
• Must have graduated from an approved nurse practitioner program.
• Ability to handle confidential information.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to adapt to change.
• Attention to detail.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Must be a graduate from an approved nurse practitioner program and hold relevant certifications/licenses for practice.

Physical Demands

• Frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of radiation.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.