Vanderbilt Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Fellowship (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Vanderbilt Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Fellowship is a 12-month postgraduate program focused on child and adolescent psychiatry. The PMHNP will be exposed to a variety of experiences within child and adolescent psychiatry, including outpatient services, inpatient services, consult liaison services, the Vanderbilt Center of Excellence consulting for youth in states custody, and structured didactics focused on expanding the fellow’s knowledge base across disciplines in child and adolescent psychiatry. There will be an emphasis on outpatient care. The PMHNP Fellow works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team at Vanderbilt Behavioral Health, including psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, and other NPs, to provide diagnostic assessment and medication management for children and teens with psychiatric conditions including depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, Autism, and other mental health conditions. The PMHNP Fellow demonstrates an advanced level of medical and nursing knowledge, clinical competence, sound clinical judgment, professional communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and is responsible for professional development and competency validation.

Requirements

Master's degree in Nursing
Board certification as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Current Tennessee RN license
Current Tennessee APRN license with certificate of fitness to prescribe
Eligible for DEA license
Relevant Work Experience
Less than 1 year of experience

Responsibilities

Performs and documents in the medical record a complete history and physical examination.
Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making accurate and diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.
Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.
Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis, formulates and documents a plan of care to address acute and complex, chronic health care needs.
Utilizes evidenced-based practice guidelines or protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.
Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic and surgical (as needed) to achieve expected outcomes.
Manages further diagnostic tests through ordering, performance and interpretation.
Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team members.
Facilitates communication with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.
Documents key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary and/or clinic note, where applicable.
Documentation will be timely and must meet compliance standards while accurately capturing patient acuity and/or complexity.
Seeks opportunities for the analysis of evidenced based practice.
Attends Grand Rounds, MM & I presentations and other education opportunities as available.
Maintains continuing education to maintain licensure and certification requirements.
Actively participates in required professional development fellowship curriculum.