Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Central Neighborhood Hlth Fdn•San Bernardino, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

A psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) will provide mental healthcare services to individuals, including adults and children, and families with drug abuse problems, psychiatric disorders or brain disorders. In addition to working with doctors to establish a diagnosis and prescribe medication, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners create holistic treatment plans that prioritize a dynamic level of educational and professional support specific to each patient’s psychiatric needs.

Requirements

Possess and maintain graduate professional nurse, and nurse practitioner registration in a state, which must be unrestricted, current, complete, and active.
Obtain Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner or Mental Health Nurse Practitioner certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
Must attain and maintain a California State License.
Possess Bachelor’s degree in Nursing followed by a Master’s degree in Psychiatric or Mental Health Nursing from a state approved and accredited school for professional nursing training
Possess strong understanding of societies and their impact on mental health; ability to solve problems, monitor and examine patients
Be compassionate, sensitive, and possess strong reasoning and thinking skills
Possess strong computer skills, including working with word processing and data entry applications, as well as with medical software applications
Has a contagious and positive work ethic, inspires others, and models behavior of being genuine, caring, and friendly.
Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication that is clear, well-organized, and demonstrates an understanding of the patient’s needs.
Demonstrates great problem-solving, team leadership, and organization skills.
Possess advanced physical and psychosocial health assessment skills
Have sound knowledge of adult health and related diagnostic and clinical therapies
Demonstrate ability to deal with high acuity/complexity and rapidly changing situations
Maintains patient, employee, and Foundation confidentiality at all times, discussing patient or employee business only with appropriate parties who have a bona fide need to know; and communicating only the minimum amount of information necessary with respect to protected health information (PHI) as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

Responsibilities

Develop comprehensive evaluations, make diagnoses, and identify any patient risk using present symptoms and a patient’s personal and family history.
Consider potential development issues, trauma, neurological dysfunction and other psychological disorders to make informed treatment plans and support systems for each patient.
Responsible for providing outpatient and residential care to patients showing a change or decline in mental status, chronic or urgent medical conditions.
Collaborate with other treatment providers to help individuals with complex psychiatric issues.
Perform patient’s histories and physicals, risk factor assessment, ordering of therapeutic and diagnostic tests; and attend to consultations and appointments.
Diagnosing, conducting, and prescribing medications for patients having psychiatric-mental health problems and those likely to have them.
Providing emergency psychiatric services, physical and psychosocial examination of their patients
Developing appropriate treatment plan and providing effective management of patient care with proper evaluation.
Educate patients on self-care practices.
Consulting with patients and families having multiple and complex psychiatric disorders; and working in collaborative and integrative roles with primary care providers.
Record a patient’s medical and psychiatric history, and their progress after each appointment or session, making it easier to identify issues or communicate your patient’s needs to other care providers.
Other duties as needed