Advanced Practice Provider, Psychiatry

Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice RN

The psychiatric mental health advanced practice RN practices as a mental health specialist that works as an educator, advocate and care provider and is an advocate for well-being of patients with psychiatric disorders, intellectual disabilities and impairment across the lifespan using a holistic model of psychiatric-mental health. This position will support the Caring Recovery Opioid Treatment Program and the West Mood Clinic.

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of mental health needs of acute and chronically ill individual condition.
• Diagnose simple and complex mental health and psychiatric conditions.
• Develop and execute treatment plans to manage patients with psychiatric
• Conduct physical exams, order and interpret tests.
• Provide therapeutic interventions including prescribing and monitoring psychiatric medications.
• Provide individual psychotherapy (if trained)
• Manage patients with psychiatric, mental health, and substance abuse/use evidence based practice.
• Counsel on preventive care

Qualifications:

• Expertise in the practice of nursing validated by five years of current clinical practice including two years in the area of specialty practice.
• PMHNP (psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner) certification required.
• Credential with APRN core and psychiatry care specialty.