RBH is now offering new pay rates and sign-on bonus opportunities for qualifying nursing professionals!
Richmond Behavioral Health is now hiring for our new Crisis Receiving Center and we have an exciting opporunity for a full-time Licensed Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our team! The selected individual will perform complex advanced human support work in the care and treatment of patients in a public health program, performing patient assessments and evaluations, determining diagnoses, prescribing medications, ordering and interpreting lab results, providing education and counseling, making referrals, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work is performed under the general direction of the assigned Program Director.
Essential Functions
Provides client treatment; assesses clients; diagnoses disorders and health problems.
Establishes and modifies treatment plans including diagnosis; prescribes medication; monitors clients response to treatment including medication side effects and adverse reactions.
Orders and interprets lab results
Educates clients and other staff on health promotion, prevention and treatment recommendations.
Provides supportive counseling and non-pharmacological strategies to manage symptoms.
Reviews and documents direct and patient related services; prepares progress notes and evaluations; completes prior authorizations and paperwork as requested.
Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members and other medical providers, families and community providers; communicates assessment information, treatment planning, interventions and crisis needs with Case Managers, clinicians, supervisors and stakeholders.
Promotes integration of care through consultation and collaboration with other health care providers
Functions as a member of select committees as assigned
Participates in administrative and clinical staff meetings as required.
Assist with medical and clinical policy development.
Initiates health promotion initiatives
Completes monthly reports as assigned
Functions as a change agent to identify and implement process improvement initiatives.
Participate in maintaining standards of care and implementation of evidence based processes in acute and non-acute settings.
Coordinates special projects as needed to support medical and psychiatric service provision.
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