Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (NP) | Part Time or Full Time

Job Overview

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides integrated behavioral health services to patients both virtually and in person.
• Affirms medical diagnoses based on history, assessment, and diagnostic findings.
• Collaborates with counselors, case managers, or other treatment team members to coordinate client care.
• Timely and accurately completes medical records, including assessment, treatment plan, progress notes, outcome measures, and billing entries.
• Examines or orders laboratory or diagnostic tests for clients to provide information on general physical condition and mental disorders.
• Orders, obtains, and interprets appropriate diagnostic tests.
• Designs, orders, and documents appropriate treatment plans/plans of care including prescriptions of medications based on a comprehensive review of health information and diagnostic results.
• Initiates protocols/clinical pathways and evaluates the plan of care ensuring timely intervention.
• Performs invasive procedures when needed.
• Communicates plan of care with appropriate providers including the collaborative physician, the primary care provider, the referring provider, the nursing staff, and the case manager.
• Communicates plans of care with the patients and family members.
• Provides patient and family instruction related to the plan of care, disease process, new treatment plans, and medication regimens.
• Counsels and educates patients and family members in disease processes, health maintenance and health promotion activities.
• Provides primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive care services.
• Initiates appropriate referrals and specialty consultations or other agency involvement as needed.
• Facilitates patient flow.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team including case management ensuring appropriate and timely discharge.
• Provides specialty consultation.
• Advocates for patients ensuring patient/family participation in care, knowledge of treatment options, and understanding of patient rights.
• Considers the holistic needs of patients and orchestrates resources (i.e., pain service, palliative care).
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education Responsibilities

• Provides formal and informal educational programs for other members of the health care team consistent with evidence-based practice standards.
• Participates in mentoring activities.
• Precepts interns.
• Promotes understanding of disease processes in area of specialty/program.
• Functions as a clinical resource for other team members including but not limited to interns, residents, fellows, nurses, and medical students.
• Provides community education, health promotion, and outreach.
• Acts as a community health resource.

Clinical Leadership/Outcomes

• Responsible for coordinating adequate nurse practitioner coverage on their service.
• Works with the physician and nurse practitioner staff to ensure this coverage.
• Works with primary care providers to achieve service specific outcome targets for key metrics including clinical outcomes, level of service, cost of care and patient satisfaction.
• Participates in performance improvement activities aimed at improving clinical outcomes and minimizing variation.
• In collaboration with physician leadership and the entire leadership team, develops clinical pathways.
• Participates and leads quality assurance activities (i.e., chart reviews, peer review) and establishes standard of practice.
• Advances the patient care delivery process through the application of research, evidence-based practice standards, and industry best practices.
• Advises and influences CCG policies and procedures to improve the delivery of care.
• Introduces and evaluates new patient care delivery systems, models of care and therapeutic and preventive interventions that target patient needs not met by current care delivery strategies.
• Actively participates and contributes to various department and division meetings and organizational initiatives.
• Maintains compliance and regulatory documentation for administrative purposes and reimbursement for services.
• Participates in accreditation readiness.
• Supervises ancillary staff including completing annual reviews.

Qualifications

• Must have an active CRNP-PMH license in good standing.
• Must have an active or pending CDS & DEA.
• Must be Microsoft Office proficient.
• Must have an understanding of DSM-V and diagnosis codes.
• Must have organizational and time management skills.
• Must have writing and oral communication skills.
• Experience working in SUD population is a plus.

Pay

$70 - $85 hourly (depending on experience)