(Archived) Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Full Time - Eagleville, PA

PrimeCare Medical, Inc. (i.e., PCM) has been in operation since 1986. We are a private, physician founded, nationally accredited correctional healthcare practice.

PCM provides comprehensive medical & mental health care services to over 80 county jails, prisons, and juvenile detention centers throughout the states of PA, MD, NY, NH & FL.

Correctional medicine is a unique, challenging, and exciting opportunity for today’s mental health professional in that it provides the ability to truly utilize all of your learned clinical skills and knowledge on a daily basis. Correctional health care is the perfect hybrid of Outpatient & Inpatient Psychiatry; serving an often underserved and extremely diverse patient population, and provides unrivaled scheduling flexibility!

Job Description:

We are presently seeking a Full-Time Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) to provide on-site mental health care services at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Eagleville, PA.

This is a 40 hour/week position, Monday’s – Friday’s, during normal business hours.

To quickly summary some key points:

• Salaries are negotiable and commensurate based on experience,
• Company-paid family health care benefits offered,
• Company-paid life insurance provided,
• Retirement benefits (i.e. 401k with discretionary company match) available,
• Company-paid liability insurance (including tail) included,
• Generous PTO vacation plan provided,
• Annual licensure reimbursement offered, and more.
  
  

Job Duties:

In this role the NP you will be responsible for performing a variety of duties such as suturing and administering injections and medications, drawing blood samples, and evaluate of diagnostic findings. Other responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring complete, accurate and timely mental health entries are made for each patient contact.
• Providing counseling and education on common mental health problems.
• Performing histories and physicals on all newly committed patients in accordance with NCCHC/ACA Standards, facility requirements, and PCM policies and procedures.
• Complying with standards of care in accordance with NCCHC/ACA and accepted health care standards.
• Developing and conducting in-service education programs according to annual in-service calendar, as assigned by Company Medical Director and/or Administrator.
• Reviewing patient records to determine health status and initiate necessary treatment.
• Screening patient mental health call requests to determine appropriate follow up care.
• Evaluating patients at mental health call for common complaints.
• Ordering appropriate laboratory tests.
• Ordering specialty consultations when indicated.
• Providing other services as required at the request of the Medical Director and/or Administrator.
• Providing ongoing, continuous care for patients with chronic mental health problems.
• Evaluating and initiating treatment in emergency mental health situations.
• Prescribing therapeutic modalities such as medications and diets in accordance with regulations.

This position is exciting and fast paced. As such we must have someone who is able to multi-task well and has excellent time management skills. They must also have the ability to work independently and be comfortable with making patient diagnosis on their own, thus prior experience is preferred.