Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Job Summary:

The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner is a key member of the Cooperative Health Behavioral Medicine Division Team. Primary, preventive, and episodic psychiatric care is compassionately delivered to promote health and wellness. The clinical program is divided into units that foster a team approach to care. The Nurse Practitioner will assume an active role at the site becoming involved with quality improvement activities, meetings, and other team building efforts.

Essential Functions:

Administrative

• Completes medical records and reviews labs in 72 hours or less from the time and date the patient is seen or labs resulted as per Cooperative Health policy.
• Timely respond to messages and phone calls from support staff and other office team members.
• Attends a minimum of 75% of Cooperative meetings as scheduled and requested.
• Remains knowledgeable of and works with a care team to coordinate plans to improve population health (quality measures) to achieve benchmarks.
• Maintains active licensure throughout all terms of employment.
• Complies with federal, state, and local legal and professional requirements.

Primary Care - Clinical

• Collects medical histories, performs physical examinations, make appropriate and timely medical diagnosis based upon the history and physical exam for assigned patients.
• Orders appropriate laboratory and other tests to confirm or evaluate the medical situation.
• Makes sound clinical decisions creating treatment plans in accordance with the common standard of care, statutes, regulations, and protocols regulating the profession.
• Provide psychiatric health services, education, counseling, and emotional support.
• Monitors the effectiveness of treatment and care plans.
• Issue medication prescriptions in accordance with treatment guidelines and standards of care.
• Provide patients with clear understandable information on their health and status of their psychiatric diagnoses.
• Provide patient education regarding medications, risks, benefits, and reasonable expectations.
• Directs coordination of patient care with patients and other members of the clinical team.
• Receives primary care team referrals to assist with managing psychiatric conditions.
• Provides medical supervision to support staff in implementing the plan of care.
• Takes into account the patient's psychosocial and social determinants of health when establishing care plans.

Overall

• Provides appropriate information necessary for accurate billing (i.e. indicating appropriate E&M, CPT, and ICD-10 codes for services rendered).
• Serves as a preceptor to psychiatric mental health professional students.
• Assists with administrative efforts in quality assurance and quality improvement initiatives related to the management of patients with psychiatric issues.
• Works collaboratively with all care team members to provide a patient-centered medical home. Focuses on quality of care for all patients.
• Maintains shared goals, mutual respect and trust with all care team members.
• Maintains coordinated patient care across multiple settings. Works collaboratively with community partners to provide quality patient care.
• Works effectively on a team and communicates respectfully with patients and all staff members based on shared goals and mutual respect. This includes demonstrating adaptability to continuous efforts to improve patient care and willingness to be an active care team member engaged in ongoing process and quality improvement projects with the framework of the patient-centered medical home.
• Honors patient rights to privacy and confidentiality. Adheres to strict patient, customer, and business confidentiality standards.
• Participate in quality improvement projects outlined by organizational leadership.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Medical Officer (CMO), and/or Behavioral Medicine Division Director.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• This position requires intermittent moderate physical activity, including standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, sitting, twisting, squatting, pushing, grasping, pushing/pulling, fine manipulation, reaching above the shoulder, computer use, crouching as well as lifting and supporting patients. Must be able to lift 25 pounds and be able to sit, stand, stoop, squat, for more than four (4) hours per day.
• Work environment involves exposure to potentially dangerous material and situations that require following extensive safety precautions and may include the use of personal protective equipment.
• Will work with blood or blood-borne pathogens require OSHA training.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• This position requires BLS certification, ability to wear a respirator, and preparing and administering medications, all of which involves chemical and/or biohazard exposure.

Qualifications:

Masters of Science in Nursing - Nurse Practitioner with advanced training in Psychiatry, from an accredited college or university.

Must be licensed as an APN.RX in the state of South Carolina.

Must maintain current signed NP - MD collaborative agreement.

Must maintain DEA and controlled substance registration in good standing.

Must maintain BLS certification.