Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Traveler

About the role

Loyal Source is looking for Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners to travel for employment opportunities in El Paso, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Formulate diagnoses and treat psychiatric and mental health care needs, including family units; urgent and emergency mental health care, public health management, case management, collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, and gender specific care, including transgender care and management of mental health care during pregnancy.
• Provide care under the scope of a collaborative practice and prescriptive authority agreement with a psychiatrist.
• Order and interpret diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to the detainees' psychiatric needs.
• Utilize evidence-based tools in the identification of risks associated with medication induced movement disorders.
• Initiate appropriate action based upon operating memorandums and policies, to include emergent use of forced psychotropic medication.
• Manage significant mental illness including prevention of homicidal/suicidal ideation, plan or intent.
• Provide telepsychiatry services for patients at other facilities as needed and as the local facility allows, only in the states the provider is licensed, to include:
• Working with the patient’s local primary care provider (PCP) to coordinate care for any identified medical concerns (patient’s local administrative staff will coordinate the appointment).
• Using video teleconferencing equipment and electronic medical records (EMR) software to examine and record the patient’s plan of care.
• Telepsychiatry services will be provided in accordance with the Tele-Mental Health Services policy.

Requirements

• A minimum of one year of clinical provider experience in direct patient care setting.
• Experience in a detention/correctional or residential health care setting (preferred, not required).
• Unrestricted, current license in the state in which the duty station is located.
• Maintains current board certification as PMHNP by the American Nurse Credentialing Center (ANCC) or National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
• Current licensure as a PA by a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or territory of the United States.
• Graduate from a PA program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA).
• Certificate of Added Qualification in Psychiatry from the NCCPA - required.
• Current unrestricted registered nurse (RN) and PMHNP licenses by a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or territory of the United States.
• Possess a Master or Doctoral level education.
• Maintains unrestricted license with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and in the state in which the duty station is located to prescribe controlled medications.
• Maintains BLS for Healthcare Providers® certification through the American Heart Association®.

Qualifications

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Analytical skills and ability to navigate complex system.
• Interpersonal and active listening skills.
• Organizational and time management skills.
• Strong problem solving, judgement and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrates integrity, honesty, and cultural competency.
• Verbal and written proficiency in Spanish (preferred, not required).

Skills

• Knowledge of and ability to apply professional, evidence-based, clinical principles, procedures, and techniques to patient care delivery.
• Knowledge of drugs and therapeutics when prescribing and dispensing medication.
• Practical knowledge of laboratory procedures and guidelines.
• Ability to properly use equipment, materials and supplies in simple diagnostic and treatment procedures.
• Ability to utilize interpretation and/or translation and/or assisted communication services as needed to ensure ability to communicate with patients or others who are Limited English Proficient (LEP) or have a communication disability or impediment.
• Ability to adapt to sudden changes in schedules and flexibility in work requirements.
• Ability to communicate proficiently in English (verbal and written) in order to develop positive rapport with patients, co-workers, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, collaborative working relationships in an interdisciplinary, multicultural and multi-lingual environment.
• Ability to navigate in an electronic work environment including electronic health records, web-based training and communications.
• Knowledge of, and moderate proficiency in, common Microsoft Office programs, specifically Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and SharePoint.
• Knowledge of regulations (HIPAA/Privacy Act) regarding the confidentiality of patient medical records and information as well as Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
• Comprehensive knowledge of managing non-compliant patients, special needs populations, and patients with significant deficits in coping skills.
• Knowledge of forensic psychiatry and advanced clinical concepts and principles – preferred.

Benefits

This position does not require privileging.

Pay

$65.26/hr + Weekly per diem and housing

Schedule

24/7/365; response is required during an emergency activation.