Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Denver

As the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner you will provide psychiatric services to assigned patients. Provide quality patient care in a supportive and empathetic manner to ensure a safe environment. Comfortable with ages served per program needs.

• Completes a Psychiatric Evaluation on all assigned patients within 72 hours of admission (including submitting dictation / documentation).
• Evaluate patients clinical and medical appropriateness for transfer and /or discharge.
• Completes psychiatric assessment and mental status assessments of patients as requested.
• Documents all meetings with patients in process notes within 24 hours of meeting.
• Completes all documentation, maintaining compliance with the Companys policies and procedures.
• Consults with patients in support and interpretation of the treatment plan and treatment team decisions.
• Prescribe medication appropriate to the patient within the policies and practices of the Company.
• Works with the treatment team to minimize the use of psychotropic medication with a focus on removing patients from controlled or addictive medication if clinically appropriate.
• Reviews all non-psychiatric medical orders and prescriptions and consults with prescribers as required.
• Communicate risks, benefits and side effects of psychiatric medication to patients and documents such education in the progress notes.
• Attends treatment team meetings and provides consultation regarding medications and psychiatric issues.
• Determines a psychiatric diagnosis per DSM-V or subsequent publication and documents the diagnosis in the patients medical record within 24 hours of admission.
• Clarifies diagnosis on an on-going basis, specifically addressing rule outs and other diagnosis in treatment team meetings.
• Takes call Monday through Friday for psychiatric issues involving assigned patients.
• Takes weekend call for all patients in accordance with the current call schedule.
• May provide emergency psychiatric consultation by telephone seven days per week, twenty-four hours per day, except during periods of scheduled time off.
• Responds to calls promptly and appropriately.
• May complete insurance appeal letters in coordination with Patient Finance.
• May conduct Doc-to-Doc reviews with insurance representatives in accordance with the insurance companys timeline requirements.
• Works with Medical Records on Return to Work forms and letters, disability forms and letters and FMLA paperwork for assigned patients.
• Ability to converse in English with others to give, take and process information; extensive use of telephone.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of information, multi-task, coordinate projects and record/transcribe general and specific meeting minutes.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Communicate with other staff to relay concerns and observations involving patient safety

• Graduation from an approved Nurse Practitioner Program
• Licensed with the Colorado Board of Nursing
• Must have a DEA number.
• CPR and CPI certified.
• Three years' experience in chemical dependency or eating disorders preferred.
• Two years experience with patient population served required.
• Meets active staff credentialing.