Psychiatric ARNP/PA
Job Description
Scope:
The psychiatric ARNP/PA is responsible for doing psychiatric evaluations on individuals, prescribing psychotropic medications that will help alleviate their psychiatric symptoms, and engage in follow up visits with the patients as needed.
Job Responsibilities:
- Responsible for providing outpatient care to patients showing a change or decline in mental status, chronic or urgent medical conditions.
- Work independently with other members of the medical team, with entitlements to specific clinical privileges approved by the clinic’s Medical Executive Board
- Take part in an interdisciplinary team that provides primary care to employees and patients
- Perform patients histories and physicals, risk factor assessment, ordering of therapeutic and diagnostic tests; and attend to consultations and appointments
- Prescribe medications following the clinic’s policy, formulary and relevant regulations of the State
- Consult with physicians on cases that are beyond the scope of qualification of PMHNP
- Put all relevant patient data in electronic medical records and case presentations
- Formulate, execute and review healthcare education delivered to patients and families for diseases prevention
- Ensure smooth communication with other health professionals for effective delivering of clinic service to patients
- Provide consultation to the clinic’s nursing and medical staff for improvement in their work performance, which enhances overall quality service delivery of the clinic
Qualifications & Requirements
- Proficient in the English (Spanish preferred )language, both in writing and speaking to be able to communicate clearly with all stakeholders, including patients, families, clinic staff and other healthcare professionals
- Possess and maintain graduate professional nurse, and nurse practitioner registration in a state, which must be unrestricted, current, complete, and active
- Obtain Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner or Mental Health Nurse Practitioner certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
- Possess a Master’s degree in Psychiatric or Mental Health Nursing from a state approved and accredited school for professional nursing training
- Possess strong understanding of societies and their impact on mental health; ability to solve problems, monitor and examine patients
- Be compassionate, sensitive, and possess strong reasoning and thinking skills
- Possess strong computer skills, including working with word processing and data entering applications, as well as with medical software applications
- Ability to work effectively with medical equipment, including EKG machines, suction kits, surgical lasers, vision charts, and defibrillators