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Casper, Wyoming

NURSE PRACTITIONER or PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT

Nurse PractitionerNo weekendsFull-Time Full Practice Authority

Listed compensation

$125k–$145k

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Employment & setting
Full-Time
Call expectations
Not specified
Weekends
No weekends
Posted 3mo ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

Join Wyoming Behavioral Institute as a NURSE PRACTITIONER (NP), FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER (FNP) or PHYSICIAN'S ASSISTANT - CERTIFIED (PA-C)

Your passion, inspiration and talents are invaluable to us and our mission to serve others. Our facility can provide a place for you to thrive and continue your professional experience. Join us in working to change lives and transform the delivery of healthcare.

Quality healthcare is our passion, improving lives is our reward. Wyoming Behavioral Institute, located in Casper, WY is an 85-bed psychiatric hospital providing excellent care to children, adolescents and adults. We take pride in being a cohesive, family-friendly, flexible, educational and welcoming work environment!

Salary: $125,000 - $145,000 Salaried (based on license level, education & experience)

Shift – Full-Time Salaried, Monday-Friday, some weekends (for supplemental compensation)

General Summary: A salaried position responsible for practicing medicine with physician supervision including conducting examinations and writing prescriptions. Within physician–physician assistant (PA) relationship, PAs exercise autonomy in medical decision making and provide a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services. May practice in several primary care areas including family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology as well as surgery and surgical subspecialties. May include responsibility for education, research, and administrative services. Will require provider to be credentialed to provide services within the hospital.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Conducts physical exams, assesses health status, orders and interprets tests, prescribes medications, and treats illnesses including giving injections and suturing wounds. Consults with physicians as needed and refers to physicians for more complicated medical cases or cases that are not a routine part of an NP or PA’s scope of work.

  • Monitors therapies and provides continuity of care.
  • Documents History & Physical after assessing patients upon admission

Triages patient calls and evaluates patient problems. Responds to emergencies including use of CPR.

Counsels patient/family on preventive health care.

Documents patient information and care in medical record and may maintain department statistical database for research purposes.

Your Skills & Qualifications will include

Graduation from an Accredited Nurse Practitioner or Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) program and licensed in the State of Wyoming with Licensure

Must have prescriptive authority in the state of Wyoming

Prefer two (2) years of progressive experience in therapeutic or clinical treatment, acute care, psychiatric acute care, residential care, partial care or equivalent.

Must have knowledge of developmental tasks of children, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients and apply knowledge in assessment and planning of care.

Must be 21 years of age or older and able to pass a background check and drug screen.

Qualifications

Your Skills & Qualifications will include

Graduation from an Accredited Nurse Practitioner (NP), Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), Physician Assistant program and licensed in the State of Wyoming with requisite Licensure

Must have prescriptive authority in the state of Wyoming

Prefer two (2) years of progressive experience in therapeutic or clinical treatment, acute care, psychiatric acute care, residential care, partial care or equivalent.

Must have knowledge of developmental tasks of children, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients and apply knowledge in assessment and planning of care.

Must be 21 years of age or older and able to pass a background check and drug screen.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Physical ExaminationsPatient AssessmentMedical DocumentationTriageDiagnostic ServicesPsychiatric Care

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates NURSE PRACTITIONER or PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT at UHS a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Psychiatry nurse practitioner listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Psychiatry — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 49 active Nurse Practitioner listings this role was benchmarked against, 55% are remote, 35% have no call, 57% require no weekends.

Nurse Practitioner pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Wyoming is 92.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$135k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $146k in an average-cost state. 57.2% of Wyoming clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Wyoming has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states. At the posted ~$135k midpoint, that is roughly $5k–$9k a year versus a typical 4–7% state rate.

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Annual compensation range

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401k / retirement match
93%
Sign-on bonus
62%
CME allowance
21%
Loan repayment
14%
Relocation assistance
3%

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Work-life snapshot

6.0/ 10
Listing-based score

A signal to investigate—not a guarantee about the workplace.

  • No weekends

Living in Casper

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$314k
Typical market rent
$1,393/mo
Residents’ average commute
17 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
93.8
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Casper, WY metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.