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(Archived) Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner – Boston Metro
Job Description
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner functions as a core member of a collaborative care team that involves the patient, the patients’ primary care provider, psychiatry, nursing, and community health workers. The BHC provides consultation/assessment and bio-psychosocial evaluations on an urgent basis, support and linkage services, advocacy, education, brief interventions, counseling, and information in order to ensure adequacy of health care, increase access of services, enhance physical and psychological well-being and facilitate patient self-care. Patients are referred (optimally via warm hand-off) by BNHC medical providers who are at high risk due to diagnosis of diabetes, hypertension, asthma or other illness; who are frequent user of the hospital emergency rooms; and who have behavioral health/mental health, social or environmental concerns that impede their overall health.
Ability to design and implement clinical pathways and protocols for treatment of selected chronic conditions.
- Generous Base Salary
- Full benefits including health, dental, malpractice, CME and pension