FACT Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

FACT Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Yonkers Clinic - Yonkers, NY 10701

Overview

Salary Range $160,000.00 - $160,000.00 Salary/year

Description

Open Door Care Network provides health care and wellness programs to individuals and families in need throughout Westchester, Putnam and Ulster Counties. A pioneer Federally Qualified Health Center, Open Door provides more than 300,000 patient visits annually and serves nearly 60,000 individual patients who might not otherwise have access. Open Door offers integrated services and a holistic approach to building healthier communities. Primary medical care, dental care, integrated behavioral health care, clinical nutrition, wellness programs, and chronic disease management are the foundation of its clinical programs.

Founded as a free clinic in 1972, Open Door's mission of building healthier communities through accessible, equitable, culturally competent health care has led to site and service expansions. Today, Open Door operates centers in Brewster, Mamaroneck, Mount Kisco, Ossining, Port Chester, and Sleepy Hollow, in addition to eight School-Based Health Centers in the Port Chester and Ossining School Districts, a mobile dental van in Mount Kisco, and a new dental practice in Saugerties, NY.

Open Door is seeking a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who will perform nursing duties in accordance with NYS Education Practice Guidelines. The NP will supervise the nursing team to promote and restore patient's health as he/she provides, delegates, evaluates and coordinates comprehensive nursing care through the use of the nursing process for participants of all ages, gender, cultures, and background; provide physical and psycho-social support to participants and family members. The NP provides care to participants of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric age groups. The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will report to the designation above depending on the specific site assigned with indirect report to the Clinical Coordinator.

Duties and Responsibilities

Work collaboratively with the Clinical Coordinator to provide medical support to the FACT team

Patient Care Services

• Comprehensive Clinical Treatment: The Nurse Practitioner will be responsible for the psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, and ongoing medical treatment of participants, including prescribing and managing medications.
• Supervise the nursing team to ensure that they are compliant with NYS Education Practice Guidelines, review charts, client care, etc.
• Assess, plans, directs, and evaluate nursing care as determined by the patient's age related physical, psychosocial, and cultural needs
• Performs and records screening tests (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, weight, EKG, vision, hearing) to participants of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric age groups
• Administers medications, treatments, and intravenous solutions; perform lab/diagnostic testing and therapeutic procedures as per standing orders/ or written order by the clinician. Safely stores and maintains inventory of medications, immunizations in accordance with the CDC and NYS Vaccine Program
• Reviews medication patient's medication list, communicates patient status, and needs to the provider prior to the patient visit for all participants, highlighting the chronic disease and high-risk participants
• Maintains emergency equipment and oxygen tanks
• Collects and performs CLIA laboratory procedures including but not limited to rapid strep test, urinalysis, pregnancy screening, hemoglobin A1C, and blood glucose monitoring pregnancy tests. Records and reports results appropriately, calibrates, instrument maintenances and cleans following manufacturer's instructions. Completes appropriate paperwork or electronic documentation necessary.
• Performs monofilament diabetic foot assessment and records results
• Oversees the process for reconciliation of medical waste manifests

Care Coordination and Communication

Collaboration with Team: The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will work closely with the Clinical Coordinator to ensure the overall treatment plan aligns with the participant's mental health and criminogenic needs.

The NP collaborates with the team; delegates follow up of patient care to the RN and LPN by ensuring that laboratory reports, consultant reports and diagnostic reports, discharge and ER visits are up to date in the participants file before the next visit.

• Handles telephone encounters and disseminates communication to team members and participants.
• Monitor's the Relevant Dashboard and implements outreach process to recall participants to address care gaps; participates in pre-visit planning and daily team huddles
• Reinforces health education and counseling: including, general health maintenance; birth control; pregnancy, newborn, and pediatric care; nutrition; STD prevention and treatment; HIV testing and counseling; alcohol, drug, and domestic abuse awareness; and smoking cessation
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives as part of the practice care tea

Supporting Role

• • Participates in training, orientation, competency assessment and education of new employees
  • Communicates clearly, concisely, and accurately, creating a working climate that provides growth and job satisfaction of personnel. Demonstrates clinical competency
  • Serves as a resource person to other staff in one's own clinical expertise
  • Maintains infection control and safety practices in accordance with CDC, OSHA Standards

Qualifications:

• • Board-certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, licensed in New York State as a Registered Professional Nurse with experience in forensic psychiatric issues or working with justice-involved individuals.
  • Proven ability to manage complex mental health conditions and provide both psychiatric and medical assessments.
  • Experience in multidisciplinary team settings, with strong collaborative skills.
  • English speaking - (Spanish) Preferred ionate about providing high-quality care to low-income, underserved residents in a mental health setting
  • Excellent interpersonal skills both verbally and in writing
  • Highly organized, selfdirected
  • Engaged in learning and continuous quality improvement
  • Resilient
  • Valid NYS driving license is required
  • Group facilitation
  • knowledge of program target groups
  • awareness of client needs, ability to effectively interview clients from diverse backgrounds to obtain facts in a culturally competent manner and to recognize relevant case information.

Experience: 2 -3 years in related field

Physical Requirements:

The work requires standing and walking with bending and carrying of light items. Work requires hand dexterity for office machine operation, sitting for extended periods of time and involves periods of moving about the work unit

Working Conditions

• • Frequent contact with participants, employees, and outside agencies
  • Frequent exposure to communicable diseases and other conditions common to a health center environment which will require adherence to Infection Control Standard Precautions