APRN PSYCH - FLOAT POSITION

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

The University of New Mexico Hospital's Department of Psychiatry is seeking a compassionate and adaptable PMHNP to join our dynamic and multidisciplinary team. This unique float position offers the opportunity to work across several key areas within our department, including Crisis Triage Center, Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES), Psychiatric Urgent Care, and Walk-in Clinic. This role is ideal for a provider who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is comfortable navigating a variety of clinical settings, patient populations, and psychiatric diagnoses. There is also potential for panel management responsibilities, depending on departmental needs.

Key details include:

• 12-hour shifts
• Weekend and holiday coverage required (rotating schedule)
• Flexibility and adaptability are essential

If you're passionate about delivering high-quality psychiatric care and enjoy working in a collaborative, ever-evolving environment, we'd love to hear from you!

Compensation for this role is based on a number of factors, including but not limited to experience, education, and other business and organizational considerations.

Function as an advanced practice nurse in Behavioral Health in the roles of consultant, educator, practitioner, and researcher. Prescribe and distribute drugs and controlled substances. Develop and implement patient care based on research and national practice standards designed to improve patient outcomes in specialized areas. Ensure adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment may include neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric age groups.

Detailed responsibilities include:

• Patient care: Assess, diagnose, and develop treatment plans; implement treatment, follow-up, and evaluate patient within the scope of practice protocols as outlined by state statute
• Prescription authority: Prescribes and distributes all drugs, including controlled substances
• Patient care: Perform patient history and physical exams as needed for procedures or admissions; document findings noting pertinent normal and abnormal findings
• Patient care: Perform invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• Patient care: Evaluate and revise intervention care/treatment plan with patient and family as necessary to achieve improved health
• Documentation: Provide accurate documentation of patient care, document orders, directives, procedures, and patient responses in the medical record and communicate them to other members of the health care team; maintain accurate, legible, and confidential records
• Patient care: Provide education for patients and/or families about preventative care, medical issues, and use of the prescribed medical treatment
• Patient care: Work as a team member with medical/nursing/counseling staff to provide comprehensive care and promote continuity of care
• Education: Guide, teach, support, and serve as a clinical resource nursing and medical staff
• Training: Act as a role model for advanced practice professions, precept nurses, other advanced practice nurses, and physician assistant students
• Research: Support research by conducting or participating in research studies; incorporate findings in clinical practice
• Development: Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings, and workshops
• Patient safety 1: Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures, and protocols
• Patient safety 2: Demonstrate a proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes
• Patient safety 3: Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
• Patient safety 4: Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors, and/or near misses in a timely manner
• Patient safety 5: Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"

Qualifications:

• Education: Essential: Program Graduate Education specialization: Advanced Nurse or Clinical Nurse Spec
• Experience: Essential: 1 year psychiatric experience. Nonessential: Bilingual English/Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo Bilingual English/Spanish Specialization in applicable area
• Credentials: Essential: CPR for Healthcare/BLS Prov or Prof Rescuers w/in 30 days, NM Advanced Practice Nurse License (CNP, CNS, CRNA), ACLS or PALS (as applicable) within 30 days of hire
• Physical Conditions: Medium Work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.
• Working conditions: Essential: Sig Hazard: Chemicals, Bio Hazardous Materials req PPE. Sub to credential.failure obtain/maintain may result in term. 60 days written notice required to be eligible for rehire. Tuberculosis testing is completed upon hire and additionally as required

Sign-On Bonus Available. Relocation Assistance Available.