Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Recovery Centers of America • Mount Dora, FL

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About The Position

Responsible for the care and needs of patients in a psychiatric unit. The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner may do the same things a psychiatrist does, including diagnosing mental illness and prescribing medication. May also act as a therapist, helping patients with depression, anxiety and suicidal individuals, and other conditions that can be remedied with counseling.

Requirements

• Master's, postgraduate, or doctoral degree from a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner program accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN).
• Current Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner certification from the ANCC.
• 2+ years' experience as an RN; 3 years' experience as a psychiatric nurse practitioner preferred.
• Valid NP license in the state in which the individual will practice.
• Active DEA (and CDS if required by state) license.
• Up to date CPR or BLS certification strongly preferred (or must be completed during orientation period).
• Critical thinking skills and ability to formulate accurate medical/psychiatric assessment.
• Understanding of ASAM criteria and levels of care.
• Ability to safely prescribe medications and administer as needed.
• Competency in performing CLIA waived testing as needed.
• Proficiency in screening and assessing for suicide ideation and aggression.
• Ethics: Ethics is reflected in integrity, which includes elements of honesty, responsibility, credibility, and the ability to use ethical considerations to guide decisions and actions.
• Health Promotion, Health Protection, Disease Prevention, and Treatment: Provides direct mental health care services.
• Nurse Practitioner/Patient Relationship: Demonstrates the personal, collegial, and collaborative approach that enhances the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner's effectiveness of patient care.
• Cultural Competence: Provides culturally competent care, delivering patient care with respect to cultural and spiritual beliefs.

Responsibilities

• Assess, examine, diagnose, and treat patients with mental illness by conducting a comprehensive family assessment.
• Collects data from multiple sources using assessment techniques that are appropriate to the patient's language, culture, and development state, including screening evaluations, psychiatric rating scales, genograms, and other standardized instruments.
• Assesses the impact of acute and/or chronic illness, psychiatric disorders, and stressors on the family system.
• Performs initial history and physical examination, intermittent medical assessments as warranted.
• Involves patients, significant others, and interdisciplinary team members in data collection and analysis.
• Teach patients' families about the patients' condition, and how to react in certain scenarios.
• Develops a plan of care.
• May prescribe medications.
• Educate patients on medications for addiction treatment (MAT).
• Prescribing MAT for Alcohol Use Disorder and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) for Opioid Use Disorder (i.e Buprenorphine, Methadone, Sublocade, etc.)
• Prescribing Nicotine Replacement therapies (gums, patches, lozenges, etc.) and medications (Chantix, Wellbutrin, etc.)
• Medically Supervised withdrawal daily rounding.
• H&P Comprehensive Admissions Assessment to 3.7 and 3.5 levels of care.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees