Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - PRN

Essential Functions

• Evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders
• Provide follow up psychiatric care to individual case load: improve patient mental health outcomes, medication management, address comprehensive mental healthcare needs
• Coordinate with counselors to integrate psychiatry & counseling
• Focus on patient experience: optimize for safety, patient satisfaction, and access to care
• Conduct psychiatric evaluations, develop treatment plans, and evaluate treatment results
• Perform problem-focused, individualized medical assessments within psychiatric parameters
• Prescribe medication (including narcotics) and treatment within your prescriptive authority, as appropriate in your professional medical judgment, and without regard to cost
• Review patient medical records, as appropriate
• Sign off on orders, as appropriate
• Comply with the correctional facility’s policies and procedures, unless doing so would be counter to common sense
• If a determination is made that off-site care would be more appropriate for the patient, work with medical staff to send the patient off site or make appointments

Qualifications

• Must possess a current state license in the state in which services are to be provided (MD, DO, Nurse Practitioner, Physician’s Assistant, Psychiatry)
• Board Certified
• Current DEA registration
• Experience in a primary care specialty, corrections, and/or managed health care delivery
• Must be able to drive a motor vehicle
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; hands-on training