Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Summary of Position

The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMH-NP), supervised by a psychiatrist, assists in providing psychiatric healthcare and patient care management to adult and/or pediatric patients.

Under the psychiatrist's supervision, the PMH-NP is responsible for a wide range of psychiatric medication management services, including taking medical and biopsychosocial histories, conducting psychiatric assessments, ordering labs as clinically indicated, monitoring patients, prescribing medications, and counseling and educating patients on their treatment plan.

The PMH-NP collaborates closely with the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Behavioral Health Officer as part of an integrated system. This role provides psychiatric mental health support to pediatric patients.

Minimum Qualifications

• Current unrestricted certification and/or licensure
• Previous psychiatric medication management and FQHC experience preferred.
• CPR, and all applicable certifications required (must be obtained within 30 days of employment).
• Knowledgeable in population health management in the underserved and/or vulnerable populations
• Understands ethics of confidentiality.
• Previous computer experience or training required.
• Successful candidate must submit to TB testing and any vaccinations recommended by OSHA Guidelines.
• Sets an example as a psychiatric professional by observing work start and stop times, giving adequate notice for absences, and following clinic’s operational and personnel policies and procedures.
• Able to communicate and relate well with patients, providers and clinical staff.
• Maintains current and unrestricted licensure and certification including meeting and/or exceeding CME requirements.
• Observes standards of medical and psychiatric care.
• Efficient, organized and accurate.
• Ability to sit and stand for long periods of time
• Frequent walking for short distances
• Repetitive motion work with keyboards and some limited physical activity
• Experience with the geriatric population.
• Evaluate and provide psychiatric mental health support to pediatric patients.

Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and use of e-mail communication
• Problem analysis and problem solution at both a strategic and functional level
• Ability to communicate clearly and succinctly

Education

• Graduation from an accredited program
• Current State of North Carolina NP licensure/certification required, in good standing with the Nursing Board
• Current DEA certificate required
• Board Certification if applicable

Key Responsibilities

• Engages in a patient-centered approach to providing care for patients and their families
• As a member of an interdisciplinary health care team, provides consultative services within the scope of care definitions and directs the provision of support services to organization in screening, diagnosing, managing and treating mental illness.
• As a member of an interdisciplinary health care team, works in collaboration with behavioral health providers and behavioral health support staff
• Provides psychiatric assessment, evaluation, and treatment using evidence-based procedures as part of the clinical care team. Responds to psychiatric emergencies and answers psychiatric medication management questions.
• Obtains and documents, or causes to be obtained and documented; appropriate chief complaint, past medical, past psychiatric, family and social history, review of systems, examination, medications and allergies, assessment and plan for each patient. As needed and appropriate, implement behavioral health screening tools, assess for safety, and provide patient education.
• Provides psychiatric medical orders for prescription refills, administration of medications, ancillary testing, and/or referrals as appropriate to meet patient need
• Reviews ancillary test results in a timely manner and coordinates notification and follow-up to patients.
• Supervises patient care by external agencies such as specialty providers, home health and psychiatric care, enhanced psychiatric services, nursing home, or hospice.
• Available to patients personally or through clinical staff to answer questions and relay information regarding their care.
• Completion of all appropriate paperwork in a timely manner, including documentation to comply with insurance and reimbursement guidelines.
• Educates patients and/or families as to the nature of disease, provides instruction on proper care, self-management and treatment, and works with patient to develop an individualized care plan.
• Actively participates in the QI process by reviewing peer charts when appropriate and gives feedback to peers to support a culture of peer education and continual learning
• Perform other duties as assigned by his/her supervising physiatrist, the Chief Medical Officer, the Chief Behavioral Health Officer, Practice Manager and/or members of the Kintegra Health executive leadership team.
• Other duties as assigned

Kintegra Health Core Requirements

• Patient First – An approach to care that holds primary, the well-being and desires of the patient
• Build not Blame – Focusing first on finding fault with the process rather than the person
• Integrity and Honesty – Fostering an acceptance of openness, honesty, and fairness in words, deeds and the use of organizational resources, judiciously for both internal and external customers
• Cooperation and Flexibility – Related to an internal believe that we function as part of an interdependent team with only shared gains or losses thereby committed to assisting whenever possible beyond the prerequisite job description
• Culturally Sensitive – Always working toward increasing one’s ability to understand, communicate with, effectively interact and care for people across cultures; while having an acute awareness of one’s own culture.

Kintegra Health is a is a community sponsored, family-centered provider of health care, health education and preventive care services without regard to the ability to pay. We first screen potential employees to ensure alignment with our core requirements followed by the requisite position skills set.

In doing so we need staff committed to this mission who do their best to live and work the characteristics of our core values as we strive to care for our ever-increasing members of the communities we serve. Our goals are:

• To provide continuing comprehensive and accessible primary care services to individuals and families of all economic levels within our surrounding counties.
• To provide primary care services to meet the physical as well as social health needs of individuals and families, promoting health maintenance, providing timely diagnostics, treatment and referral services.
• To emphasize preventive care through patient and community education to help individuals become aware and responsible for their own health behaviors.
• To employ an interdisciplinary team approach in collaboration with other community providers to provide a continuum of appropriate patient/family-oriented care in a cost-effective manner.

Kintegra Health is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.