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(Archived) Nurse Practitioner-Psychiatric Mental Health

Last Updated: 9/21/22

Job Description

Position Summary:

Serves as an advanced practice nurse in the area of psychiatric mental health nursing working in both direct and indirect patient care activities. Direct care functions include providing physical and psychiatric assessments, therapeutic interventions, and case management services. Indirect care functions include assuming role as a researcher, consultant, liaison, and educator. Prescriptive authority is accomplished through collaboration with a psychiatrist.

Core Competencies

  1. Actively supports, promotes and works to fulfill the Mission, Vision and Values of Forest View Hospital.
  2. Demonstrates commitment to the Service Excellence program.
  3. Meets all competency and education requirements annually per department standards, which will include age specific-growth and development competencies.

Primary Criteria/Responsibilities:

  1. Meets all competency requirements annually per department standards, which will include age specific-growth and development competencies and skills.
  2. Adheres to hospital standards of attendance and punctuality.
  3. Adheres to hospital standards on all mandatory in service requirements and departmental meetings.
  4. Upholds dignity for self, patients, colleges, and others. Utilizes professional and therapeutic approaches to treatment, without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, socioeconomic status or faith. Maintains appropriate confidentiality, appropriate therapeutic and ethical boundaries at all times.
  1. Competent in assessing, planning, and delivering care for patients with all psychiatric disorders.

Principle Job Functions and Responsibilities

Provides short term medication management to Partial Hospital patients.

  1. Serves as a consultant to the staff, providing education about psychiatric medication, psychiatric conditions and care giver interventions.
  2. Provides education as needed to patients, families, and significant others about psychiatric medication, psychiatric conditions and care giver interventions.
  3. Provides crisis intervention as needed and brief telephone assessment for adverse events and patient’s clinical concerns.
  4. Reviews relevant clinical studies, working to translate research findings into routine clinical practice
  5. Coordinates all aspects of the treatment plan with other team members, patient, significant family members, community gatekeepers and case mangers and other health services involved in treatment.
  6. Assumes teaching role in educational offerings.
  7. Provides crisis intervention as needed.
  8. Works with Director to maintain schedule, including request for time off and absences.
  9. Assume Safety Responsibilities:
  • Report any/all safety concerns to Supervisor, Loss Control Coordinator, Maintenance
  • If injured, will complete with supervisor an Employee Accident Report and submit it to the Loss Control Coordinator.
  • Will report accidents to the Loss Control Coordinator by the end of the shift or within 24 hours of injury.
  • If work related injury results in a back injury employee will go through the Back Injury Prevention Training with the Staff Development Coordinator.
  • If injured, will abide by the Return to Work/Light Duty Program guidelines.
  • Will abide by the Hospital’s Safety Policies.

Responsibilities delegated by Psychiatrist:

  1. Formulating an appropriate diagnosis based on history, physical examination, and clinical findings.
  2. Ordering appropriate diagnostic tests.
  3. Prescribing pharmacologic agents.
  4. Providing information/education and obtaining informed consent for psychotropic medications, which may include communication with pharmacies and insurance companies for authorization.
  5. Prescribing non-pharmacologic therapies.
  6. Making appropriate referrals to other health professionals and community agencies.
  7. Determining the effectiveness of the plan of care through documentation of patient care outcomes.
  8. Reassessing and modifying the plan as necessary to achieve medical and health goals.
  9. Assisting patient family to plan for home care, providing instructions on techniques and methods of home care.
  10. Participating in quality assurance review on a periodic basis, including systematic review of records and treatment plans.
  11. Ordering consultations.
  12. Documenting evaluations, progress notes and discharge summaries, in compliance with insurance standards and governing bodies

Summary:

Assures provision of nursing care in accordance with the Michigan Mental Health Code, accreditation standards, licensing rules and regulations, legal aspects, hospital policies/procedures, and standards of nursing care and practice.

Documents all clinical activities according to policy.

Minimum Skills, Experience, Licensure, Insurance, and Educational Requirements

  1. Must be a RN, licensed to practice in the State of Michigan. Work requires advanced practice nursing knowledge. Holds a Nurse Practitioner Specialty License by the Michigan Department of Commerce and Industry.

Company Details

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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