What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Practitioner Psych position at Betances Health Center?
JOB DESCRIPTION
Functional Title: PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSE PRACTITIONER
Under the direction of the Medical Director, Responsible for providing the health status assessment, maintenance, disease prevention, and supervision of comprehensive health care in collaboration with and under the supervision of the Chief Medical Officer:
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assess, diagnose, plan, coordinate and evaluate holistic plans of care for BHC behavioral health patients, including treatment with and management of MOUD.
- Conducts physicals on new participants and current participants in clinic
- Provides evaluation and treatment of participants during acute illness or emergence of new complaint or symptom; manages participants’ chronic illnesses.
- Determines the need for and facilitates referrals to other medical specialists when participant's condition warrants.
- Evaluates the participants’ plan of care and revises as appropriate.
- Provides preventive health maintenance for participants including immunizations, screenings, and monitoring of pertinent indicators.
- Prescribes and adjusts medications within the scope of prescriptive authority and current practice guidelines.
- Orders, reviews, and provides instruction to participants regarding therapeutic diet.
- Orders, facilitates, and reviews diagnostic examinations such as laboratory, radiology, etc.
- Providing psychiatric evaluations, crisis triage, stabilization, and linkage to ongoing outpatient treatment
