Advanced Practice Nurse - Mental Health

Advance Practice Nurse - Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

The Western New York VA Healthcare System is seeking a qualified full-time Advance Practice Nurse to work as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner serving on the Mental Health team at the Buffalo, New York facility. The Advanced Practice Nurse - Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner practices in the Behavioral Health/Mental Health service, and provides a full range of services emphasizing quality, timeliness, advanced clinical practice, consultation, management, and the advancement of the Veterans Affairs mission. The incumbent is a licensed independent practitioner with advanced education and national certification who provides evidence-based care for a population of patients. The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner practices to the full extent of their education, training, and certification with core functions outlined in the clinical privileges that correspond with this position. He/she has prescriptive authority as indicated by their position.

Major duties and responsibilities of the position:

• Independently manages a panel of patients with acute and chronic health conditions with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention using evidence-based practice for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and mental health veterans.
• Provides assessments, evaluations, and care coordination of Veterans.
• Develops and implements an individualized plan to achieve optimal population health and disease management.
• Crisis management as needed.
• Participating member of the interdisciplinary team, to include IDT weekly meetings on both DOM and Acute Psych
• Collaboration specifically with nursing staff, nurse managers, program managers, and intake coordinators for medical clearance/psych clearance and management of veterans on unit.
• Assesses and adjusts the plan of care as needed to achieve optimal patient outcomes and provides consultation regarding Veterans with medical and psychiatric problems.
• Uses advanced clinical judgment to independently provide evidence-based treatment to Veterans with acute or chronic mental illness including use of psychotropic medications, psychotherapy, and other modalities.
• Provides patient and family education on medical/MH conditions, preventive measures, and prescribed treatments.
• Demonstrates leadership and engages in collaboration with other MH and specialty care professionals while involving Veterans and their families (as appropriate), in treatment plan development.
• Counsels and treats patients with substance use disorders. Aides in health promotion, disease prevention, and health education.
• Orders and interprets labs, tests, and diagnostic studies.
• Prescribes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions.
• Initiates referrals/consults to specialty services, serving as a VA and community liaison.

Work Schedule: Full-Time. Monday - Friday (8:00 AM - 4:30 PM) with rotational "on-call" coverage.

Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized

Telework: Ad-hoc per agency policy

Virtual: This is not a virtual position

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

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Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards to include:

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory