The NP collaborates with emergency medicine physicians, hospitalists, psychiatrists, nursing, case management, behavioral health staff, and community providers to support safe, effective, patient-centered care, appropriate disposition, reduced behavioral health length of stay, and safe transitions. Overview: The Behavioral Health Nurse Practitioner (NP) provides comprehensive psychiatric assessment, evaluation, consultation, treatment, and medication management to patients presenting to the acute care hospital and Emergency Services with behavioral health and psychiatric needs.