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Overview
NaphCare is seeking a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our healthcare team at the Washoe County Jail in Reno, Nevada.
This part-time (10 hours per week) opportunity is ideal for a provider who is passionate about behavioral healthcare and wants to make a lasting impact in a unique clinical setting. Working within a collaborative correctional healthcare environment, you''ll provide comprehensive psychiatric care, support patients participating in our Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) program, and partner with an experienced multidisciplinary team to improve outcomes for individuals with complex behavioral health and medical needs.
Responsibilities
As a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, you''ll provide comprehensive behavioral healthcare while supporting patients with mental health and substance use disorders. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Conduct comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and ongoing medication management.
- Assess, diagnose, and treat patients with behavioral health and substance use disorders.
- Support the facility''s Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) program by evaluating patients and developing individualized treatment plans.
- Obtain patient histories, perform physical assessments as appropriate, and formulate evidence-based treatment plans.
- Prescribe medications and monitor patient response to treatment.
- Admit, evaluate, and discharge patients in accordance with established clinical protocols.
- Conduct patient rounds and ensure continuity of care throughout the treatment process.
- Order, review, and interpret laboratory and diagnostic testing as clinically indicated.
- Collaborate with physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, and correctional staff to deliver coordinated, patient-centered care.
- Respond to urgent psychiatric needs while promoting patient safety and maintaining appropriate clinical documentation.
- Educate patients on their diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, and available behavioral health resources.
Qualifications
Education / Licenses / Certifications / Requirements
- Master''s or Doctorate degree in Nursing
- Current, unrestricted Nevada Nurse Practitioner license with Psychiatric certification
OR
- Current Physician Assistant license with at least one (1) year of relevant psychiatric experience
- Current DEA registration
- Collaborative Practice Agreement with the facility physician (if applicable)
- Current BLS/CPR certification
- Ability to successfully complete the facility''s background investigation and drug screening
Experience / Skills
- Knowledge of nursing practice principles and techniques, occupational health and safety standards, infectious disease management, applicable health care laws, regulations, and procedures for direct health care services.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of all proprietary and/or confidential information
- Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Able to work independently and in a team
- Experience working in a correctional facility or acute care center is a plus
- Integrity, professionalism and ability to adhere to a Code of Conduct and comply with all facility(s) correctional healthcare policies, procedures, and legal requirements
Physical Capabilities:
Must have the ability to stand for long periods, lift and move patients (up to 50 pounds), bend, squat, reach, push, pull, walk significant distances, and perform physically demanding tasks like CPR, all while maintaining good balance and endurance throughout a shift.
Why Join NaphCare?
NaphCare is one of the largest providers of healthcare services to correctional facilities throughout the US, and we are growing. If you have never considered a career in correctional healthcare, now may be the time! In addition to competitive salaries and generous employee benefits, we have opportunities for new graduates and experienced medical professionals, promote educational growth, and strongly support career advancement within the company.
NaphCare Benefits for Full-Time Employees Include:
- Health, dental & vision insurance that starts day one!
- Prescriptions free of charge through our health plan, beginning day one
- Lowest Cost Benefits!
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services
- 401K and Roth with company contribution that starts day one!
- Tuition Assistance
- Referral bonuses
- Term life insurance at no cost to the employee
- Generous paid time off & paid holidays
- Free continuing education and CMEs
Want a better idea of what it's like to work in a jail? See what our RNs do:
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NaphCare is dedicated to implementing cost-effective, quality services according to our clients' needs.
Because every facility is unique, we tailor our services to meet each client's respective needs. We deliver solutions based on your requests rather than telling you how to run your facility. NaphCare evaluates, evolves, and adapts our programs according to not only client needs, but also the ever-changing field of correctional healthcare.
When you choose NaphCare, you choose a proactive, preventive healthcare provider. We focus on a “Day One” mentality, providing care up front and without delay. Our clients experience greater efficiency, a reduction in unnecessary costs, and transfer their legal liability, all without giving up their independence. NaphCare is leading the way with an all-in-one approach to correctional healthcare that provides services unique to your facility.
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With NaphCare, people come first. We are proud of our company culture and ability to connect with our clients on a personal level, and it is NaphCare's mission to continue our history of personalized service. Care is not reserved simply for the patients entrusted to us, but also for our client partners. We care for our clients by providing efficient services to reduce their costs, communicating regularly about our services, listening to the client, providing accountability through continuous quality studies and reporting, and working with integrity at all times.
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Also, as an independent healthcare partner, we are free from complex partnerships and distant investors that limit our competitors' responsiveness. NaphCare has not undergone any corporate reorganization or restructuring since the company was founded in 1989, and has no plans to do so in the future. This stability, along with planned and structured growth, ensures that our client partners receive personal attention from our administrative and medical support team at our headquarters.
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