Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Job Description

Job Description

Summary :

The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner is responsible for assessing, diagnosing, treating, and preventing mental, emotional, substance abuse, and behavioral disorders with the use of medication, neuromodulation, and psychotherapy.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Conducts psychiatric assessment of symptoms, providing treatment for diagnosis, and prescribing appropriate therapy and / or medication.
• Oversee the prescribed medical care of patients which includes regular screenings for medical conditions and assessment of wellness and health management.
• Evaluate and oversee behavioral reactions to medications including side effects; adjusting as needed.
• Conducts brief therapy.
• Provides clinical supervision and oversight of the psychiatric services delivered by the Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant.
• Collaborates with the Team Leader monitoring treatment and clinical supervision to the team.
• Collaborates with nurses in developing and implementing medication administration policies and procedures.
• Supervises non-medical team members on all aspects of psychiatric and non-psychiatric treatment and medications.
• Confers with patients’ relatives regarding illness and treatment.
• Regularly participates in daily team meetings and treatment planning meetings; attends daily team meetings in proportion to the time allocated on the team.
• Provides psychiatric back-up to the program after-hours and weekends.
• Ordering and reviewing any necessary labs associated with prescribed medications.
• Keeps medical records.
• Prepares psychiatric reports.
• Accurately document all billable encounters into Southeastern Integrated Care’s EMR (electronic medical record) system within 24 hours.
• All corrections will be entered within 24 hours of being notified.
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities :

This position does not oversee staff.

Qualifications :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education / Experience

Required Skills / Abilities

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Work Environment :

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work is typically performed in an office environment, with a moderate noise level.

Physical Demands :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.