Mental Health Nurse Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Master's Degree
• National Board Certification as a Psychiatric - Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (CAQ-Psych Preferred) or with experience

Nice To Haves

• CAQ-Psych Preferred

Responsibilities

• Performs complete psychiatric evaluations, including documentation in the electronic medical record.
• Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
• May serve as the first responder for both nursing and house staff in the event of patient status changes, orders, and in situations requiring procedural and resuscitative interventions.
• Assesses for risks and contributing factors associated with the care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including: medical comorbidities, medication side effects, and psychosocial determinants.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.
• Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
• Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.
• Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions.
• Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis, and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs.
• Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.
• Implements and modifies plan of care.
• Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.
• May perform advanced procedures and psychotherapeutic techniques consistent with privileges, training, and competency validation.
• Documents/dictates key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and or clinic note where applicable.
• Documentation is timely, meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.
• Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team and supervising/collaborating physician.
• Facilitates and communicates with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.
• Demonstrates Professional Practice behaviors including working relationships with department staff, care team, and preceptor/mentoring of students where applicable.
• Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research, the analysis of evidenced based practice and engagement with Jefferson Health enterprise meetings.
• Participates in specialty specific meetings as scheduled.
• Maintains CEUs, licensure, certifications, and trainings as dictated by professional.

Benefits

• medical (including prescription)
• supplemental insurance
• dental
• vision
• life and AD&D insurance
• short- and long-term disability
• flexible spending accounts
• retirement plans
• tuition assistance
• voluntary benefits
• tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service